Bombastic vs. Pompous — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Bombastic and Pompous
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Bombastic
Having an extravagant or pompous style
A bombastic speech denouncing the government's policies.
Pompous
Characterized by excessive self-esteem or exaggerated dignity; pretentious
Pompous officials who enjoy giving orders.
Bombastic
(of a person, their language or writing) showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms; grandiloquent; pompous
Pompous
Full of high-sounding phrases; bombastic
A pompous proclamation.
Bombastic
High-sounding but with little meaning.
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Pompous
(Archaic) Characterized by pomp or stately display
A pompous occasion.
Bombastic
(archaic) Inflated, overfilled.
Pompous
Affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.
Bombastic
Characterized by bombast; high-sounding; inflated.
A theatrical, bombastic, windy phraseology.
Pompous
Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur; magnificent; as, a pompous procession.
Bombastic
Ostentatiously lofty in style;
A man given to large talk
Tumid political prose
Pompous
Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious; as, pompous manners; a pompous style.
He pompous vanity of the old schoolmistress.
Pompous
Puffed up with vanity;
A grandiloquent and boastful manner
Overblown oratory
A pompous speech
Pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey
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