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Bombastic vs Flamboyant - What's the difference?

bombastic | flamboyant |

As adjectives the difference between bombastic and flamboyant

is that bombastic is showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms; grandiloquent; pompous while flamboyant is showy, bold or audacious in behaviour, appearance, etc.

As a noun flamboyant is

a showy tropical tree, the royal poinciana (delonix regia ).

bombastic

English

Alternative forms

* bombastick (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms; grandiloquent; pompous
  • High-sounding but with little meaning.
  • (archaic) Inflated, overfilled.

    • Synonyms

    * (pompous or overly wordy) blustering, grandiloquent, pompous, verbose, florid * inflated, turgid

    Antonyms

    * (pompous or overly wordy) concise, succinct

    Related terms

    * bombast * bombaster * bombastically

    Descendants

    * French: bombastique * Spanish:

    flamboyant

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Showy, bold or audacious in behaviour, appearance, etc.
  • * 1902 , ,
    • When we see some of the monstrous and flamboyant blossoms that enrich the equatorial woods, we do not feel that they are conflagrations of nature; silent explosions of her frightful energy. We simply find it hard to believe that they are not wax flowers grown under a glass case.
  • * 1920 , , Chapter VI: The Question of Clearness,
    • But a scorn of flamboyant neckties and checkerboard trousers is no excuse for going to the opposite extreme of a blue flannel shirt and overalls; .
  • * 1962 May 12, ,
    • The unbelievers will say they are but words, but a slogan, but a flamboyant phrase.
  • (architecture) Referred to as the final stage of French Gothic architecture from the 14th to the 16th centuries.
  • * 1891 , , Chapter XIX: Avignon,
    • S. Pierre is a flamboyant church, the details passing into Renaissance.
  • * 1911 , ,
    • The second is a chapel of two storeys, the lower dating from 1150, while the upper was rebuilt in the 15th century, and there is a rich Flamboyant entrance with a stairway (1533).
  • * 1913 , ,
    • The nave and central tower, more flamboyant in design, were finished early in the sixteenth century after the original plan.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A showy tropical tree, the royal poinciana (Delonix regia )
  • * 1919 ,
    • The schooners moored to the quay are trim and neat, the little town along the bay is white and urbane, and the flamboyants , scarlet against the blue sky, flaunt their colour like a cry of passion.