English words containing bombast:

Meanings of Inflated:

adjective

Distended through being filled with air or gas.

Usage examples:

A partially inflated balloon

verb

Fill (a balloon, tyre, or other expandable structure) with air or gas so that it becomes distended.

Usage examples:

Never use an air line on a garage forecourt to inflate your tyres

Meanings of Puffy:

adjective

(especially of part of the body) unusually swollen.

Usage examples:

Her eyes were puffy and full of tears

Meanings of Puffier:

adjective

(especially of part of the body) unusually swollen.

Usage examples:

Her eyes were puffy and full of tears

Meanings of Puffiest:

adjective

(especially of part of the body) unusually swollen.

Usage examples:

Her eyes were puffy and full of tears

Meanings of Rotund:

adjective

(of a person) large and plump.

Usage examples:

Her brother was slim where she was rotund

Meanings of Showy:

adjective

Having a striking appearance or style, typically by being excessively bright, colourful, or ostentatious.

Usage examples:

Showy flowers

Meanings of Showier:

adjective

Having a striking appearance or style, typically by being excessively bright, colourful, or ostentatious.

Usage examples:

Showy flowers

Meanings of Showiest:

adjective

Having a striking appearance or style, typically by being excessively bright, colourful, or ostentatious.

Usage examples:

Showy flowers

Meanings of Pretentious:

adjective

Attempting to impress by affecting greater importance or merit than is actually possessed.

Usage examples:

Pretentious art films

Meanings of Portentous:

adjective

Of or like a portent; of momentous significance.

Usage examples:

This portentous year in canadian history

Meanings of Overdone:

adjective

(of food) overcooked.

Usage examples:

He sat there chewing his overdone steak

verb

Do, use, or carry to excess; exaggerate.

Usage examples:

She rather overdoes the early cockney scenes

Meanings of Rant:

verb

Speak or shout at length in an angry, impassioned way.

Usage examples:

She was still ranting on about the unfairness of it all

noun

A spell of ranting; a tirade.

Usage examples:

His rants against organized religion

Meanings of Pompously:

adverb

In a way that is too serious and shows that you think you are very important

Usage examples:

He strode around pompously, telling everyone what to do.

Meanings of Mouthy:

adjective

Inclined to talk a lot, especially in a rude or insolent way.

Usage examples:

An especially mouthy eleven-year-old

Meanings of Mouthier:

adjective

Inclined to talk a lot, especially in a rude or insolent way.

Usage examples:

An especially mouthy eleven-year-old

Comparative of mouthy informal

Meanings of Mouthiest:

adjective

Inclined to talk a lot, especially in a rude or insolent way.

Usage examples:

An especially mouthy eleven-year-old

Superlative of mouthy informal

Meanings of Orotund:

adjective

(of a person's voice) resonant and imposing.

Usage examples:

Watson's orotund voice is complemented by swooning strings, lush orchestration and gloriously cheer…

Meanings of Claptrap:

noun

Absurd or nonsensical talk or ideas.

Usage examples:

Such sentiments are just pious claptrap

Meanings of Bombasine:

noun

A twilled dress fabric of worsted and silk or cotton, especially a black kind formerly used for mourning clothes.

Usage examples:

Confusingly, the original source of the word was the greek bombux, ‘silkworm ‘, from which we also …

Meanings of Bombast:

noun

High-sounding language with little meaning, used to impress people.

Usage examples:

The bombast of gung-ho militarism

Meanings of Bombastic:

adjective

High-sounding but with little meaning; inflated.

Usage examples:

Bombastic rhetoric

Meanings of Bombastically:

adverb

In a strong, confident way that is intended to be very powerful and impressive, but may not have much real meaning or effect

Usage examples:

He bombastically and optimistically claimed, "we are back in control!", his speeches tended to be b…