Bombast

Noun
bombast


 * 1) Originally, cotton, or cotton wool.
 * 2) Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding.
 * 3)  High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian.

Verb

 * 1) To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate.

Adjective
bombast


 * 1) High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic.

Thesaurus
absurdity, amphigory, babble, babblement, balderdash, bibble-babble, blabber, blather, bluster, boast, boastfulness, boasting, bombastry, brag, braggadocio, braggartism, bragging, bravado, claptrap, conceit, double-talk, drivel, drool, fanfaronade, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, flatulence, flummery, folderol, fudge, fustian, gabble, galimatias, gammon, gasconade, gasconism, gibber, gibberish, gibble-gabble, gobbledygook, grandiloquence, heroics, highfalutin, hocus-pocus, hot air, humbug, jabber, jactation, jactitation, jargon, lexiphanicism, magniloquence, mumbo jumbo, narrishkeit, niaiserie, nonsense, orotundity, pack of nonsense, palaver, prate, prattle, puffery, pyrotechnics, rant, rhapsody, rhetoric, rigamarole, rigmarole, rodomontade, rubbish, sesquipedality, show, side, skimble-skamble, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, swagger, trash, trumpery, tumidity, turgidity, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, vanity, vaporing, vaunt, vauntery, vaunting, waffling