Overblown vs Bombastic - What's the difference?
overblown | bombastic |
Of exaggerated importance; too heavily emphasized, hyped, etc.
showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms; grandiloquent; pompous
High-sounding but with little meaning.
(archaic) Inflated, overfilled.
As adjectives the difference between overblown and bombastic
is that overblown is of exaggerated importance; too heavily emphasized, hyped, etc while bombastic is showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms; grandiloquent; pompous.As a verb overblown
is past participle of overblow.overblown
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- They went all that way just to be in some overblown conference?
