Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to bombast
Participle: bombasted
Gerund: bombasting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | bombast |
| you | bombast |
| he;she;it | bombasts |
| we | bombast |
| you | bombast |
| they | bombast |
Perfect
| I | have bombasted |
| you | have bombasted |
| he;she;it | has bombasted |
| we | have bombasted |
| you | have bombasted |
| they | have bombasted |
Past
| I | bombasted |
| you | bombasted |
| he;she;it | bombasted |
| we | bombasted |
| you | bombasted |
| they | bombasted |
Pluperfect
| I | had bombasted |
| you | had bombasted |
| he;she;it | had bombasted |
| we | had bombasted |
| you | had bombasted |
| they | had bombasted |
Future
| I | will bombast |
| you | will bombast |
| he;she;it | will bombast |
| we | will bombast |
| you | will bombast |
| they | will bombast |
Future Perfect
| I | will have bombasted |
| you | will have bombasted |
| he;she;it | will have bombasted |
| we | will have bombasted |
| you | will have bombasted |
| they | will have bombasted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | bombast |
| you | bombast |
| he;she;it | bombast |
| we | bombast |
| you | bombast |
| they | bombast |
Perfect
| I | have bombasted |
| you | have bombasted |
| he;she;it | have bombasted |
| we | have bombasted |
| you | have bombasted |
| they | have bombasted |
Imperfect
| I | bombasted |
| you | bombasted |
| he;she;it | bombasted |
| we | bombasted |
| you | bombasted |
| they | bombasted |
Pluperfect
| I | had bombasted |
| you | had bombasted |
| he;she;it | had bombasted |
| we | had bombasted |
| you | had bombasted |
| they | had bombasted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would bombast |
| you | would bombast |
| he;she;it | would bombast |
| we | would bombast |
| you | would bombast |
| they | would bombast |
Perfect
| I | would have bombasted |
| you | would have bombasted |
| he;she;it | would have bombasted |
| we | would have bombasted |
| you | would have bombasted |
| they | would have bombasted |
Imperative
| you | bombast |
| we | Let's bombast |
| you | bombast |
Verbs conjugated like 'bombast'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'bombast'
bumbast,
boast,
bombard,
combat,
combust,
lambast,
ambass,
ballast,
bambosh,
beast,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Old French bombace (“cotton, cotton wadding”), from Late Latin bombax (“cotton”), a variant of bombyx (“silkworm”), from Ancient Greek βόμβυξ (bómbux, “silkworm”), possibly related to Middle Persian pmbk' (“cotton”), from a Proto-Indo-European root meaning “to twist, wind”.
Sample Sentences
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Their doctrine is to be seen in Jacob Behmen's books by him that hath nothing else to do, than to bestow a great deal of time to understand him that was not willing to be easily understood, and to know that his bombasted words do signify nothing more than before was easily known by common familiar terms. [1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Notes on [Richard] Baxter’s Life of Himself”, in Henry Nelson Coleridge, editor, The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, volume IV, London: William Pickering, published 1839, →OCLC, page 90:]
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[']The ugly truth is, Gerald,' she said viciously, 'that you're a phoney, a rotten, bombasting phoney, trying to cover up from all the world,[…]['] [1968, Christianna Brand, What Dread Hand?: A Collection of Short Stories, London: Michael Joseph, →OCLC:]