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What is the adjective for bombast?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb bombast which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

bombastic
  1. (of a person, their language or writing) showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms; grandiloquent; pompous
  2. High-sounding but with little meaning.
  3. (archaic) Inflated, overfilled.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “Ady's poems became required reading joylessly recited by generations of Hungarian schoolchildren in bombastic voices of patriotism.”
      “While we study the pictures we are assaulted by an overblown, portentous, bombastic Bernard Herrmann score that borders on self-parody.”
      “They know exactly when to unleash the bombastic, fuzzy electric guitar to propel a sunny-day strummer to psych rock heaven.”
bombast
bombastick
  1. Obsolete form of bombastic.
bombastical
  1. (archaic) bombastic
bombasted
  1. simple past tense and past participle of bombast
bombasting
  1. present participle of bombast
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