BLAH vs BOMBAST: NOUN
- Worthless nonsense; drivel.
- A general feeling of discomfort, dissatisfaction, or depression.
- Nonsense; drivel; idle, meaningless talk.
- (in plural, the blahs) A general or ambiguous feeling of discomfort, dissatisfaction, uneasiness, boredom, mild depression, etc.
- Pompous or pretentious talk or writing
- Pompous or pretentious talk or writing
- Grandiose or overpowering expression, as in music or painting.
- Cotton; the cotton-plant.
- Cotton or other stuff of soft, loose texture, used to stuff garments; padding.
- Figuratively, high-sounding words; inflated or extravagant language; fustian; speech too big and high-sounding for the occasion.
- Synonyms Bombast, Fustian, Bathos, Turgidness, Tumidness, Rant. “Bombast was originally applied to a stuff of soft, loose texture, used to swell the garment. Fustian was also a kind of cloth of stiff, expansive character. These terms are applied to a high, swelling style of writing, full of extravagant sentiments and expressions. Bathos is a word which has the same application, meaning generally the mock-heroic—that ‘depth’ into which one falls who overleaps the sublime: the step which one makes in passing from the sublime to the ridiculous.” (De Mille, Elements of Rhetoric, p. 225.) Bombast is rather stronger than fustian. Turgidness and tumidness are words drawn from the swelling of the body, and express mere inflation of style without reference to sentiment. Rant is extravagant or violent language, proceeding from enthusiasm or fanaticism, generally in support of extreme opinions or against those holding opinions of a milder or different sort.
- Originally, cotton, or cotton wool.
- Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding.
- Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian.
- Grandiloquent, pompous speech or writing.
BLAH vs BOMBAST: ADJECTIVE
- Dull and uninteresting.
- Low in spirit or health; down.
- Dull; uninteresting; insipid.
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BLAH vs BOMBAST: TRANSITIVE VERB
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- To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate.
BLAH vs BOMBAST: INTERJECTION
- An expression of mild frustration.
- Imitative of idle, meaningless talk; used sometimes in a slightly derogatory manner to mock or downplay another's words, or to show disinterest in a diatribe, rant, instructions, unsolicited advice, parenting, etc. Also used when recalling and retelling another's words, as a substitute for the portions of the speech deemed irrelevant.
- Representing the sound of vomiting. See bleah, bleh.
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BLAH vs BOMBAST: OTHER WORD TYPES
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- High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning.
- To beat; baste.
- To pad out; stuff, as a doublet with cotton; hence, to inflate; swell out with high-sounding or bombastic language.
BLAH vs BOMBAST: RELATED WORDS
- Pale, Bla, Babble, Drivel, Tasteless, Lackluster, Yada, Humdrum, Insipid, Dull, Boring, Claptrap, Bombast, Rant, Fustian
- Pretension, Grandiosity, Pompousness, Braggadocio, Hyperbole, Theatrics, Bravado, Histrionics, Grandiloquence, Pomposity, Bluster, Blah, Fustian, Rant, Claptrap
BLAH vs BOMBAST: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Nonsense, Pale, Bla, Babble, Drivel, Tasteless, Lackluster, Humdrum, Insipid, Dull, Boring, Claptrap, Bombast, Rant, Fustian
- Flamboyance, Pretension, Grandiosity, Pompousness, Braggadocio, Hyperbole, Theatrics, Bravado, Histrionics, Grandiloquence, Bluster, Blah, Fustian, Rant, Claptrap
BLAH vs BOMBAST: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- It means any structure or site within the City that has an identified blah, blah, blah, blah.
- Objective: To find meaningful employment as an Occupational Therapist for a progressive blah, blah, blah, blah.
- "The boys in my class were going blah blah blah blah blah," she said.
- Oh, the indigenous people, they all know where this place is, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
- Our executive team has degrees in blah blah a background of blah blah and experience in blah blah expertise etc.
- In the last recession, the financial crisis was caused by horrific financial regulation plus blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, right?
- Blah, blah, blah, stolen plans, blah, blah, blah, missing scientist, blah, blah, blah.
- Blah blah blah Enfield blah Fast Show blah blah Little Britain despair Catherine Tate.
- Be sure to treat your wife right, blah, blah, blah, making babies, blah, blah, blah.
- Go blah blah blah lay down blah blah blah and Blah blah blah get blah blah blahs some blah blah blah rest.
- These are extraordinary statements, even in a context that usually tolerates some bombast and hyperbole.
- Even if his rhetoric is mostly harmless bombast, we cannot be so sure.
- We finally get a glimpse under the skirt of bombast and rhetoric.
- Manowar deliver some of the bombast we know and love them for.
- His bombast rants are usually much more exciting than the game.
- Pieces of this kind seldom achieve validity, and usually produce bombast.
- Khrushchev met his proposals with bombast and truculent indifference.
- Motley not effective close to bombast and every few.
- China may be wondering whether all this is bombast.
- MMT may yet turn out to be mere bombast.
BLAH vs BOMBAST: QUESTIONS
- Why does Qt Designer stop updating the Ui_
.h file? - What episode of how I met your mother is Blah Blah?
- How does Blah Blah become increasingly paranoid throughout the novel?
- Can anyone cut through the constant maddening mental Blah-Blah Blah being churned out by Barcelona?
- When was the Gershwins song'Blah Blah BLA Blah'written?
- What is the SKU number for George Gershwin Blah Blah Blah?
- What does it mean when someone says Blah Blah Blah Blah blahblah?
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