Bombastic vs Loquacious - What's the difference?
bombastic | loquacious |
showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms; grandiloquent; pompous
High-sounding but with little meaning.
(archaic) Inflated, overfilled.
Talkative or chatty, especially of persons given to excess conversation.
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As adjectives the difference between bombastic and loquacious
is that bombastic is showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms; grandiloquent; pompous while loquacious is talkative or chatty, especially of persons given to excess conversation.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:loquacious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- On the other hand, Hetty was moody and silent. She was never loquacious , or if she occasionally became communicative, it was under the influence of some temporary excitement that served to arouse her unsophisticated mind; but, for hours at a time, in the course of this all-important day, she seemed to have absolutely lost the use of her tongue.
