bombast

noun · verb · adjectiveB1

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

bombasts

1.
(archaic, countable, uncountable)Cotton, or cotton wool.
Đồng nghĩa: fustian
2.
(archaic, countable, uncountable)Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing, padding.
3.
(countable, figuratively, uncountable)(figurative) High-sounding words; language above the dignity of the occasion; a pompous or ostentatious manner of writing or speaking.
Đồng nghĩa: aureation, bombard phrase, fustian, grandiloquence, purple prose

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

bombasts

V_ing/Gerund

bombasting

V_ed/pp

bombasted

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.

Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

more bombast

Superlative

most bombast

1.
Big without meaning, or high-sounding; bombastic, inflated; magniloquent.
Đồng nghĩa: aureate, highfalutin

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

fustianaureationbombard phrasegrandiloquencepurple proseaureatehighfalutin

Cùng gốc / liên quan

unbombast bombasticbombasticalbombasticallybombastry

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Nguồn gốc từ

thumb|boll|Bolls of cotton on a cotton plant (Gossypium genus) in Ware County, [[Georgia, USA. Bombast is an archaic name for cotton or cotton wool (sense 1).]]