bombastisk.
bombastic, pompous, grandiloquent; inflated or pretentious in style or expression.
Meaning & usage
bombastic, pompous, grandiloquent; inflated or pretentious in style or expression.
Talen var lang og bombastisk.
categorical, dogmatic, overconfident; stated or done with excessive certainty.
Han kom med en bombastisk påstand.
Where this word comes from
From bombast (“bombast, pompous language”) + -isk (“adjective-forming suffix”), from German Bombast (“bombast”), from English bombast, from older English bombast (“cotton padding; bombast”), variant of bombase (“cotton”), from Old French bombace (“cotton, cotton wadding”), from Late Latin bombax (“cotton”), a parallel form of bombyx (“silk, silkworm”), from Ancient Greek βόμβυξ (bómbux, “silkworm; silk”). Doublet of bombasin (“smooth woollen or silk-blend fabric”) and bommesi (“napped cotton fabric”). Compare Norwegian Nynorsk bombastisk, Danish bombastisk, Swedish bombastisk and English bombastic.
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