different between bombastic vs flatulate

English

Alternative forms

• bombastical (archaic)
• bombastick (obsolete)
• bumbastic, bumbastical (obsolete)

Etymology

18th century, from bombast (“padding, stuffing”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b?m?bæs.t?k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /b?m?bæs.t??k/
• Rhymes: -æst?k

Adjective

bombastic (comparative more bombastic, superlative most bombastic)

1. (of a person, their language or writing) showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms; grandiloquent; pompous

   See Thesaurus:verbose or Thesaurus:arrogant

2. High-sounding but with little meaning.
3. (archaic) Inflated, overfilled.

   Synonyms: inflated, turgid

Antonyms

• (pompous or overly wordy): See Thesaurus:concise

Related terms

Descendants

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

From German bombastisch

Adjective

bombastic m or n (feminine singular bombastic?, masculine plural bombastici, feminine and neuter plural bombastice)

1. bombastic

Declension

English

Etymology

Back-formation from flatulence, attested since the 19th century; ultimately of Latin origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?flætj?le?t/, /?flæt??le?t/

Verb

flatulate (third-person singular simple present flatulates, present participle flatulating, simple past and past participle flatulated)

1. To emit digestive gases from the anus, especially with accompanying sound and smell.
   • 1985, James L. Framo, “Rationale and Techniques of Intensive Family Therapy,” in Intensive Family Therapy, Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy and James L. Framo eds. [1],

     Where else but in his own castle, with his own family, can a person pick his nose, flatulate, lose his temper with impunity, whine, let the child in him emerge—in short, regress and “be himself”?

Usage notes

Garner's Modern English Usage (4th ed) has an entry for flatulate, discussing the attestation history and lexicographic coverage of this verb and some of its synonyms. As with the other main bodily functions (such as urination, defecation, and vomiting), register governs the choice of synonym in a given context; flatulate serves formal registers well (such as in medical publications), whereas fart, although it is easily English's dominant synonym of the semantic field for this concept, is usually considered a casualism suited only to informal registers. Thus flatulate is to fart as urinate is to piss and as defecate is to shit.

Synonyms

• See fart § Synonyms
• See also Thesaurus:flatulate

Coordinate terms

• queef

Derived terms

• flatulation

Translations