Definitions for bombast

bombast bom·bast

Spelling: [bom-bast]
IPA: /ˈbɒm bæst/

Bombast is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 167 anagrams from letters in bombast (abbmost).

Definitions for bombast

noun

  1. speech too pompous for an occasion; pretentious words.
  2. Obsolete. cotton or other material used to stuff garments; padding.

adjective

  1. Obsolete. bombastic.

Origin of bombast

1560-70; earlier bombace padding Middle French Medieval Latin bombācem, accusative of bombāx; see bombax family

Examples for bombast

bombast was trumping originality and critics were at the end of their ropes with it.

After all, what is is, and neither falsehood nor bombast will alter it.

The line captures the intriguing paradox that is West, a mélange of petulance, bombast, unintentional—or intentional?

Its boyishness and immaturity, its stiffness and bombast, are perceptible on every page.

A few weeks later the target of his bombast had been expanded to all mental health patients.

The bombast and ignorance shown in some of these is very amusing.

The more I see of them the more I get tired of their bombast and their empty talk.

This German-creed sweeps the earth with all the bombast of a war-mad Kaiser.

In the midst of all her bombast, I suddenly saw her as the sad, lonely old woman she was.

He was to be Iran's moderate president, reflecting public sentiment to avoid the bombast of the erstwhile Ahmadinejad.

Word Value for bombast
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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