bombast
noun
[ ˈbɒmbast ]
• high-sounding language with little meaning, used to impress people.
• "the bombast of gung-ho militarism"
Similar:
bluster,
pomposity,
ranting,
rant,
nonsense,
empty talk,
humbug,
wind,
blather,
blether,
claptrap,
turgidity,
verbosity,
verbiage,
periphrasis,
euphuism,
fustian,
pretentiousness,
affectedness,
ostentation,
grandiloquence,
magniloquence,
hot air,
bunkum,
guff,
bosh,
braggadocio,
rodomontade,
Opposite:
plain speaking,
Origin:
mid 16th century (denoting raw cotton or cotton wool used as padding, later used figuratively): from Old French bombace, from medieval Latin bombax, bombac-, alteration of bombyx ‘silkworm’ (see bombazine).
