Synonyms for bombastic
- adjective
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Adjective
1. Pompous — showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms; grandiloquent; pompous
pompous, grandiose, turgid, declamatory, self-important, highfalutin informal, pretentious, wordy, inflated, flowery, big, garrulous, conceited, stilted, high-flown, large, tumid, gassy, magniloquent, grandiloquent, fustian, sesquipedalian
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Definitions
- adj. 1
showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms; grandiloquent; pompous
Related words
- Word family
- bombast bombastically
Example sentences
- pompous It's much too pompous for such a trivial thing.
- grandiose Sociopaths have a grandiose sense of self.
- turgid He pressed his turgid sex against the center of her womanhood.
- rhetorical A rhetorical question does not require an answer.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| bombastic | rising | |
| pompous | rising | |
| grandiose | steady | |
| turgid | falling | |
| declamatory | steady | |
| rhetorical | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- big1
- 5 letters
- large1, wordy2, gassy, tumid
- 6 letters
- turgid2
- 7 letters
- pompous2, flowery3, stilted2, fustian3
- 8 letters
- inflated3
- 9 letters
- grandiose3, conceited3, garrulous3
- 10 letters
- rhetorical4
- 11 letters
- pretentious3, declamatory, highfalutin4
- 12 letters
- magniloquent
- 13 letters
- grandiloquent4
- 14 letters
- sesquipedalian
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (wordy2 = 2 syllables).