Bombastic vs. Orotund — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Bombastic and Orotund
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Bombastic
Having an extravagant or pompous style
A bombastic speech denouncing the government's policies.
Orotund
Pompous and bombastic
Orotund talk.
Bombastic
(of a person, their language or writing) showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms; grandiloquent; pompous
Orotund
Full in sound; sonorous
Orotund tones.
Bombastic
High-sounding but with little meaning.
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Orotund
Characterized by fullness, clarity, strength, and smoothness of sound.
Bombastic
(archaic) Inflated, overfilled.
Orotund
Pompous; bombastic.
Bombastic
Characterized by bombast; high-sounding; inflated.
A theatrical, bombastic, windy phraseology.
Orotund
Characterized by fullness, clearness, strength, and smoothness; ringing and musical; - said of the voice or manner of utterance.
Bombastic
Ostentatiously lofty in style;
A man given to large talk
Tumid political prose
Orotund
Ostentatiously lofty in style;
A man given to large talk
Tumid political prose
Orotund
(of sounds) full and rich;
Orotund tones
The rotund and reverberating phrase
Pear-shaped vowels
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