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bombastical

bombastical adjective: bombastic.

Adjective

bombastical (comparative more bombastical, superlative most bombastical)

  1. (archaic) bombastic
    • Men's future upon earth does not attract it; their honesty and shapeliness in the present does; and whenever they were out of proportion, overthrown, affected, pretentious, bombastical, hypocritical, pedantic, fantastically delicate; whenever it sees them self-deceived or hoodwinked, given to run...1750, Richard Burton, Masters of the English Novel
    • My translator shall here have the full benefit of his own bombastical nonsense.1829, Thomas Frognall Dibdin, A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two

Forms of bombastical

comparativemore bombastical
superlativemost bombastical

Origin of bombastical

From bombast + -ical.

Questions about bombastical

What does bombastical mean?
Bombastical means bombastic.
What part of speech is bombastical?
Bombastical is an adjective.

Words near bombastical in the dictionary

  1. bombast
  2. bombasted
  3. bombaster
  4. bombasters
  5. bombastic
  6. bombastical
  7. bombastically
  8. bombastick
  9. bombasticness
  10. bombastiloquent
  11. bombasting

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