Bombastic: alternatives and connections

Of or pertaining to rhetoric; according to, or exhibiting, rhetoric; oratorical; as, the rhetorical art; a rhetorical treatise; a rhetorical flourish.

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Of or pertaining to rhetoric; according to, or exhibiting, rhetoric; oratorical; as, the rhetorical art; a rhetorical treatise; a rhetorical flourish.

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A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc.

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A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc.

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Pertaining to declamation; treated in the manner of a rhetorician; as, a declamatory theme.

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Exceeding most other things of like kind in bulk, capacity, quantity, superficial dimensions, or number of constituent units; big; great; capacious;…

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Characterized by fullness, clearness, strength, and smoothness; ringing and musical; -- said of the voice or manner of utterance.

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Swelled, enlarged, or distended; as, a tumid leg; tumid flesh.

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Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent or expansive force; swelled; swollen; bloated; inflated; tumid; -- especially applied to an…

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