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bombastic adjective [ bɒmˈbastɪk ]

• high-sounding but with little meaning; inflated.
• "bombastic rhetoric"
Similar: pompous, blustering, ranting, blathering, verbose, wordy, turgid, periphrastic, euphuistic, orotund, pleonastic, high-flown, high-sounding, highfalutin, lofty, overwrought, convoluted, pretentious, affected, ostentatious, grandiloquent, magniloquent, fustian,
Opposite: straightforward,


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