Pompous vs Bombastic - What's the difference?
pompous | bombastic |
Affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.
* 1848, , Bantam Classics (1997), 16:
showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms; grandiloquent; pompous
High-sounding but with little meaning.
(archaic) Inflated, overfilled.
Bombastic is a synonym of pompous.
As adjectives the difference between pompous and bombastic
is that pompous is affectedly grand, solemn or self-important while bombastic is showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms; grandiloquent; pompous.pompous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- "Not that the parting speech caused Amelia to philosophise, or that it armed her in any way with a calmness, the result of argument; but it was intolerably dull, pompous , and tedious; and having the fear of her schoolmistress greatly before her eyes, Miss Sedley did not venture, in her presence, to give way to any ebullitions of private grief."