bombastic

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
bombastic
    adj 1: ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large
           talk"; "tumid political prose" [syn: {bombastic},
           {declamatory}, {large}, {orotund}, {tumid}, {turgid}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Bombastic \Bom*bas"tic\ (b[o^]m*b[.a]s"t[i^]k or
   b[u^]m*b[.a]s"t[i^]k), Bombastical \Bom*bas"tic*al\, a.
   Characterized by bombast; high-sounding; inflated. --
   {Bom*bas"tic*al*ly}, adv.
   [1913 Webster]

         A theatrical, bombastic, windy phraseology. --Burke.
   [1913 Webster]

   Syn: Turgid; tumid; pompous; grandiloquent.
        [1913 Webster]
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
53 Moby Thesaurus words for "bombastic":
      Latinate, aureate, awkward, big, bloated, cramped, cumbrous,
      declamatory, elephantine, euphuistic, extravagant, flatulent,
      flowery, forced, formal, fustian, gassy, grandiloquent, grandiose,
      guinde, halting, heavy, high-flown, high-swelling, highfalutin,
      highfaluting, inflated, inkhorn, labored, leaden, lumbering,
      magniloquent, mouthy, overblown, pompous, ponderous, pontifical,
      pretentious, self-important, sesquipedalian, solemn, sonorous,
      stiff, stilted, stuffy, swollen, tall, tumescent, tumid,
      turgescent, turgid, unwieldy, windy
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