different between euphemism vs bombast

English

Etymology

Recorded since 1656; from Ancient Greek ?????????? (euph?mismós), from ???????? (euph?míz?), from ??????? (eúph?mos, “uttering sound of good omen, abstaining from inauspicious words”), from ?? (eû, “well”) + ???? (ph?m?, “a voice, a prophetic voice, rumor, talk”), from ????? (phánai, “to speak, say”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: yoo?'f?-m?z"(?)m, IPA^(key): /?ju?.f??m?.z(?)m/

Noun

euphemism (countable and uncountable, plural euphemisms)

1. (uncountable) The use of a word or phrase to replace another with one that is considered less offensive, blunt or vulgar than the word or phrase which it replaces.
2. (countable) A word or phrase that is used to replace another in this way.

Antonyms

• dysphemism
• expletive

Related terms

• euphemistic
• pseudonym

Derived terms

• youthemism

Translations

Further reading

• euphemism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Euphemism in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• euphemism in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• euphemism in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• euphemism at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Etymology

From Old French bombace (“cotton, cotton wadding”), from Late Latin bombax (“cotton”), a variant of bombyx (“silkworm”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (bómbux, “silkworm”), possibly related to Middle Persian pmbk' (“cotton”), from a Proto-Indo-European root meaning “to twist, wind”.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b?mbæst/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b?mbæst/
• Hyphenation: bom?bast

Noun

bombast (countable and uncountable, plural bombasts)

1. (archaic) Cotton, or cotton wool.

   Synonym: fustian
2. (archaic) Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing, padding.
3. (figuratively) High-sounding words; language above the dignity of the occasion; a pompous or ostentatious manner of writing or speaking.

   Synonyms: aureation, (obsolete) bombard phrase, fustian, grandiloquence, purple prose

Derived terms

• bombastic
• bombastical
• bombastically
• bombastry

Translations

Verb

bombast (third-person singular simple present bombasts, present participle bombasting, simple past and past participle bombasted)

1. To swell or fill out; to inflate, to pad.
2. To use high-sounding words; to speak or write in a pompous or ostentatious manner.

Translations

Adjective

bombast (comparative more bombast, superlative most bombast)

1. Big without meaning, or high-sounding; bombastic, inflated; magniloquent.

   Synonyms: aureate, highfalutin

References

Further reading

• fustian on Wikipedia.Wikipedia