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bumbastical

bumbastical is the obsolete form of bombastical.

Meaning of bombastical

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

Forms of bumbastical

comparativemore bumbastical
superlativemost bumbastical

Questions about bumbastical

What is bumbastical the obsolete form of?
Bumbastical is the obsolete form of bombastical.

Words near bumbastical in the dictionary

  1. bumbast
  2. bumbaste
  3. bumbasted
  4. bumbastes
  5. bumbastic
  6. bumbastical
  7. bumbasting
  8. bumbasts
  9. bumbaze
  10. bumbazed
  11. bumbazes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bumbastical (page history and authors); bombastical (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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