bombastic
inflated, pompous, or overblown in speech
Root
- bombast: padding, stuffing, or inflated speech
Other words with the bombast root
- bombast: pompous or inflated speech
- bombastically: in a pompous or inflated way
Bombastic speech is padded speech: big, stuffed, and louder than its meaning.
The candidate’s bombastic speech had volume, drama, and almost no evidence.
Bombastic comes through bombast, padding or stuffing. The exam meaning is wonderfully visual: language puffed up with padding until it sounds grander than it is.