BLAHS vs BOMBAST: NOUN
- Plural form of blah.
- A feeling of boredom and no motivation; depression.
- A general feeling of boredom and dissatisfaction
- Pompous or pretentious talk or writing
- Grandiloquent, pompous speech or writing.
- Grandiose or overpowering expression, as in music or painting.
- 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.
- Cotton; the cotton-plant.
BLAHS vs BOMBAST: TRANSITIVE VERB
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- To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate.
BLAHS vs BOMBAST: OTHER WORD TYPES
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- High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning.
- To pad out; stuff, as a doublet with cotton; hence, to inflate; swell out with high-sounding or bombastic language.
- To beat; baste.
BLAHS 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
BLAHS 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
BLAHS vs BOMBAST: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- Go blah blah blah lay down blah blah blah and Blah blah blah get blah blah blahs some blah blah blah rest.
- It's spring and that means it's time for LGBTQs to dust off their winter blahs and get ready for summer.
- Your second performance lacks the adrenaline and goodwill of a first time out, and so "second night blahs" are a legendary phenomenon.
- Doctors are far more in fear of a blade suit for not prescribing and you have a blahs attack and sue.
- Now is the time for us living with dementia to shed the winter blahs and get out into the sunshine.
- Hot and spicy and oh, so comforting, with plenty of taste to cut through the blahs from my stuffy head.
- Where every puzzling moment, from aha to haha, is our precious chance to beat the blahs.
- Art event aims for banishment of winter blahs By Karen KlinkaThe Oklahoman Get ready.
- Does your skin lack radiance or have a case of the blahs?
- Have the winter blahs taken hold of your soul?
- 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.
BLAHS vs BOMBAST: QUESTIONS
- How many answers are there to the blahs crossword puzzle?
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