mindmap root((浮夸)) bombast implies verbose grandiosity or inflation of style disproportionate to the thought: pedestrian ideas dressed up with ~. rhapsody applies to an ecstatic or effusive utterance governed more by the feelings than by logical thought and may specifically describe an excess of more or less incoherent praise: she went into ~ over their new house. rant stresses extravagance or violence in expressing something: the ~s and ravings of political fanatics. fustian stresses the banality of what is expressed: dimestore novels bursting with romantic ~.