bombast

n. 夸大的言辞

发音

UK /ˈbɒmbæst/
其它 /ˈbʌmbæst/
US /ˈbɑmbæst/

词形变化

bombasts 复数 bombasts bombasted bombasting bombasts 三单 bombasting 现在分词 bombasted 过去式 bombasted 过去分词 more bombast 比较级 most bombast 最高级

别名

bumbast

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Cotton, or cotton wool.

    古体 可数 不可数
  2. 2.

    Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing, padding.

    古体 可数 不可数
  3. 3.

    High-sounding words; language above the dignity of the occasion; a pompous or ostentatious manner of writing or speaking.

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v.
  1. 1.

    To swell or fill out; to inflate, to pad.

  2. 2.

    To use high-sounding words; to speak or write in a pompous or ostentatious manner.

adj.
  1. 1.

    Big without meaning, or high-sounding; bombastic, inflated; magniloquent.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 4

blah rant claptrap fustian

上位词 5

rhetoric grandiloquence grandiosity magniloquence ornateness

词源

From Old French bombace (“cotton, cotton wadding”), from Late Latin bombax (“cotton”), a variant of bombyx (“silkworm”), from Ancient Greek βόμβυξ (bómbux, “silkworm”), possibly related to Middle Persian pmbk' (“cotton”), from a Proto-Indo-European root meaning “to twist, wind”.

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