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Fustian vs Bombastic - What's the difference?

fustian | bombastic |

As a noun fustian

is a kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff.

As an adjective bombastic is

showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms; grandiloquent; pompous.

fustian

English

(wikipedia fustian)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff.
  • *
  • A class of cloth including corduroy and velveteen.
  • Pompous, inflated or pretentious writing or speech.
  • * Addison
    • Claudius has run his description into the most wretched fustian .
  • *

    • Usage notes

    * Used in the sense of "pompous" since at least the time of . For this shift of meaning, compare bombast.

    See also

    * (l)

    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: