Bombastic vs Digress - What's the difference?
bombastic | digress |
showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms; grandiloquent; pompous
High-sounding but with little meaning.
(archaic) Inflated, overfilled.
To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking.
* Holland
* John Locke
* {{quote-song
, year = 1959
, title = In Old Mexico
, composer = (Tom Lehrer)
, passage = For I hadn't had so much fun since the day / my brother's dog Rover / got run over. / (Rover was killed by a Pontiac. And it was done with such grace and artistry that the witnesses awarded the driver both ears and the tail – but I digress .)
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To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend.
* Shakespeare
As an adjective bombastic
is showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms; grandiloquent; pompous.As a verb digress is
to step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking.bombastic
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Alternative forms
* bombastick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* (pompous or overly wordy) blustering, grandiloquent, pompous, verbose, florid * inflated, turgidAntonyms
* (pompous or overly wordy) concise, succinctDescendants
* French: bombastique * Spanish:digress
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Verb
(es)- Moreover she beginneth to digress in latitude.
- In the pursuit of an argument there is hardly room to digress into a particular definition as often as a man varies the signification of any term.
- Thy abundant goodness shall excuse / This deadly blot on thy digressing son.