bombast

Meanings

Plural: bombasts

Noun

pompous or pretentious talk or writing
Cotton, or cotton wool.
Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing, padding.
High-sounding words; language above the dignity of the occasion; a pompous or ostentatious manner of writing or speaking.

Verb

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

Adj

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

Origin / Etymology

From Old French bombace (“cotton, cotton wadding”), from Late Latin bombax (“cotton”), a variant of bombyx (“silkworm”), from Ancient Greek βόμβυξ (bómbux, “silkworm”), possibly related to Middle Persian pmbk' (“cotton”), from a Proto-Indo-European root meaning “to twist, wind”.

Synonyms

aureate, aureation, blah, bombard phrase, claptrap, fustian, grandiloquence, highfalutin, purple prose, rant

Scrabble Score: 13

bombast is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
bombast is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
bombast is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 16

bombast is a valid Words With Friends word