bombastic
/bom-BASS-tik/adjectivehigh-sounding but with little meaning; inflated
“The keynote was bombastic — an hour of superlatives, no roadmap.”
- Synonyms
- grandiloquent, pompous, overblown
- Antonyms
- understated, plain
- Memory hook
- bombast: cotton padding — stuffing in place of substance.
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