Well furnished with flesh; fat, plump.

Of speech or discourse, with various shades of meaning: Verbose, long-winded; violent, vehement; empty and high-sounding, inflated, bombastic…

Not moderated or tempered; unrestrained; (also) uncontrolled. Cf. unmeasurable, adj. 1.

Swollen with vanity, pride, etc.; self-important, pompous; haughty, scornful; = puffed, adj. 1. Cf. huffing, adj. 2. Obsolete.

Bulging, convex, swollen, tumid; figurative of style.

Of language: inflated in style; bombastic, overblown; (also) consisting of or containing exaggerated or undue praise (cf. puff, v. 6a)…

Inflated, turgid (language). archaic.

Of language: Of the nature of fustian; ridiculously lofty in expression; bombastic, high-flown, inflated, pompous. †Also, belonging to cant or…

Suggestive of a puff of wind; empty of substance or worth; inconsequential, vain; (of language or style) overblown, bombastic; (of a person)…

Of language: bombastic, inflated, grandiloquent; full of long or impressive words (in later use esp. with reference to swearing). Cf. mouth-filling…

depreciative. That provokes derision. Cf. mouth, n. phrases 3a. (In quot. 1594 with reference to empty, bombastic rhetoric.) Obsolete. rare.

transferred and figurative. Swollen or bulging, so as to be out of shape or disproportioned; distorted with swellings or protuberances; tumid.

Of style or language: Grand, magnificent, stately, majestic; usually in bad sense, Inflated, bombastic, turgid, pretentiously pompous.

Of an oath, compliment, etc.: bombastic, inflated. Now archaic.

figurative. Characteristic of taffeta in being smooth or lustrous; (of speech) florid, ingratiating.

figurative. Puffed, empty, inflated; over-elaborate. Of language: Turgid, grandiloquent, bombastic.

= turgid, adj.

figurative. Of language: Turgid, inflated, bombastic.

Having the dropsy; swollen with or as with water; watery; inflated, turgid.

? Puffed up, inflated, ‘windy’.

figurative. Swollen or inflated with pride or conceit; bumptious; also, using inflated language.

Boastful, vainglorious; characterized by the use of pompous or pretentious language.

Swollen as with a tympany; usually figurative inflated, puffed up; turgid, bombastic; hollow, empty, vain.

Of language, style, etc.: using elevated or formal expressions; extravagant, hyperbolical; bombastic, grandiose.

figurative. Of language, style, or demeanour: Inflated, bombastic, turgid: = tumid, adj. 2. Obsolete.

(See the verb.)

figurative esp. of language or literary style: ‘Swelling’, inflated, turgid, bombastic.

= bombastic, adj.

Characterized by or consisting of ranting.

Of language: Full of empty rhetoric; turgid, bombastic.

figurative. Of speech: florid, ingratiating. Cf. taffeta, adj. 2.

Of language: overblown, magniloquent. Obsolete.

Of the nature of bombast; inflated, turgid.

transferred and figurative. Swollen, enlarged.

figurative in reference to terrible invective, threatening, etc., or to powerful eloquence; sometimes to bombastic or inflated language.

figurative in reference to language: Inflated, grandiloquent, pompous, bombastic.

(See exsufflicate, adj.)

Pompous, pretentious, or high-flown. Formerly also: using unintelligible or extravagant language. Obsolete.

Of, belonging to, or resembling Ossian or the poems ascribed to him; epic, bardic; heroically Celtic. Also: having the character of Macpherson's…

Of speech, etc.: characterized by grandiloquence or pomposity. Obsolete.

In extended use. Of language, speech, etc.: bombastic, orotund; garrulous. Also occasionally (of a word): satisfying to pronounce.

Of or pertaining to, befitting or resembling, characteristic of, a sophomore; hence, pretentious, bombastic, inflated in style or manner…

Absurdly pompous or bombastic; pretentious, affected. Cf. high-flown, adj. 3.

= sophomoric, adj.

U.S. (now chiefly historical). Extravagant in expression; bombastic, ridiculously boastful, esp. in support or praise of the United States.

Becoming tumid, swelling; somewhat tumid; also figurative.

Of speech or writing: grandiose, pompous, self-regarding; expressed in the blustering style attributed to Herod in the Mystery Plays (cf. out-Herod…

Imitating or suggesting the heroic or magniloquent style of the poems attributed to Ossian; = Ossianic, adj. Occasionally as n.: this style or manner.