bombast

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

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

Verb

1. To swell or fill out; to inflate, to pad.
2. 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.

Concepten

bombast

klem

🗜️

nadruk

gezwollen

opgezwollen

Synoniemen

pomposity

grandiloquence

fustian

magniloquence

rant

claptrap

boasting

high falutin

turgidity

turgidness

flatulence

balderdash

blah

magniloquent

overemphasis

packing

swagger

vaunt

empty talk

empty words

tumidness

bombastical

pad ding

highlight

bloated

boast

bombastic

declamatory

emphasis

flatulency

gas

gibberish

grandiloquent

grandiosity

accent

inflation

Met koppelteken als

bom‧bast

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/ˈbɒmbæst/

Etymologie (Engels)

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”.