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Bombastic vs. Pompous — What's the Difference?

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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