bombastic

bombastic
bombastic [bäm bas′tik]
adj.
using or characterized by high-sounding but unimportant or meaningless language; pompous; grandiloquent
bombastically
adv.
SYN.- BOMBASTIC refers to speech or writing that is pompous and inflated and suggests extravagant verbal padding and little substance; GRANDILOQUENT suggests an overreaching eloquence and implies the use of grandiose, high-flown language and an oratorical tone; FLOWERY language is full of figurative and ornate expressions and high-sounding words; EUPHUISTIC is applied to an extremely artificial style of writing in which there is a straining for effect at the expense of thought; TURGID implies such inflation of style as to obscure meaning

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