bombastic

Etymology

bombast (“padding, stuffing”) + -ic, 18th century.

adj

  1. (of a person, their language or writing) showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms; grandiloquent; pompous
  2. High-sounding but with little meaning.
  3. (archaic) Inflated, overfilled.

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