Bombastic vs Loud - What's the difference?
bombastic | loud |
showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms; grandiloquent; pompous
High-sounding but with little meaning.
(archaic) Inflated, overfilled.
(of a sound) Of great intensity.
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Noisy.
* Bible, Proverbs vii. 11
Not subtle or reserved, brash.
Having unpleasantly and tastelessly contrasting colours or patterns; gaudy.
As adjectives the difference between bombastic and loud
is that bombastic is showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms; grandiloquent; pompous while loud is of great intensity.As an adverb loud is
loudly.As a proper noun Loud is
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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:loud
English
Alternative forms
* lowd (obsolete)Adjective
(er)- She is loud and stubborn.
