Bombastic vs Rhetorical - What's the difference?
bombastic | rhetorical |
showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms; grandiloquent; pompous
High-sounding but with little meaning.
(archaic) Inflated, overfilled.
Part of or similar to rhetoric, which is the use of language as a means to persuade.
Not earnest, or presented only for the purpose of an argument
As adjectives the difference between bombastic and rhetorical
is that bombastic is showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms; grandiloquent; pompous while rhetorical is part of or similar to rhetoric, which is the use of language as a means to persuade.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:rhetorical
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Adjective
(-)- A rhetorical question , for example, is one used merely to make a point, with no response expected.