A theatrical, bombastic, windy phraseology. --Burke.
[1913 Webster]
Syn: Turgid; tumid; pompous; grandiloquent. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
bombastical — index flatulent Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
bombastical — adjective bombastic … Wiktionary
bombastical — … Useful english dictionary
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… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Bombastically — 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.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
W. S. Gilbert — Infobox Writer name = W. S. Gilbert imagesize = 180 px caption = Sir William Schwenck Gilbert pseudonym = birthdate = birth date|1836|11|18|df=y, London deathdate = death date and age|1911|5|29|1836|11|18|df=y, Grim s Dyke occupation = Dramatist… … Wikipedia
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (Gilbert) — Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, A Tragic Episode, in Three Tabloids is a short comic play by W. S. Gilbert, a parody of Hamlet by William Shakespeare. The main characters in Gilbert s play are King Claudius and Queen Gertrude of Denmark, their son… … Wikipedia
bombastic — bombastically, adv. /bom bas tik/, adj. (of speech, writing, etc.) high sounding; high flown; inflated; pretentious. Also, bombastical. [1695 1705; BOMBAST + IC] Syn. pompous, grandiloquent, turgid, florid, grandiose. BOMBASTIC, FLOWERY,… … Universalium
flatulent — I adjective bombastic, bombastical, declamatory, fustian, garrulous, grandiloquent, high flown, inflated, long winded, mouthy, oratorical, orotund, pompous, pretentious, prolix, rhetorical, talkative, tumid, turgid, verbose, wordy II index… … Law dictionary
high-flown — adj grandiloquent, grandiose, magniloquent, extravagant, lofty, vaulting, high sounding, Johnsonian, Ossianic, sonorous, sesquipedalian; bombastic, bombastical, inflated, swollen, bloated, flatulent, turgid, plethoric; overdrawn, overdone,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
