(of a person, their language or writing) showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms; grandiloquent; pompous / High-sounding but with little meaning. / (archaic) Inflated, overfilled.

In a bombastic manner.

(archaic) bombastic

Big without meaning, or high-sounding; bombastic, inflated; magniloquent.

(archaic) Cotton, or cotton wool. / (archaic) Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing, padding.

To swell or fill out; to inflate, to pad. / To use high-sounding words; to speak or write in a pompous or ostentatious manner.

plural of bombast

present participle of bombast

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bombast

simple past tense and past participle of bombast