The difference between Aureate and Bombast

When used as adjectives, aureate means golden in color or shine, whereas bombast means big without meaning, or high-sounding.


Bombast is also noun with the meaning: cotton, or cotton wool.

Bombast is also verb with the meaning: to swell or fill out.

check bellow for the other definitions of Aureate and Bombast

  1. Aureate as an adjective:

    Golden in color or shine.

  2. Aureate as an adjective (rhetoric):

    Of language: characterized by the use of (excessively) ornamental or grandiose terms, often of Latin or French origin.

  1. Bombast as a noun (archaic):

    Cotton, or cotton wool.

  2. Bombast as a noun (archaic):

    Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing, padding.

  3. Bombast as a noun (figuratively):

    High-sounding words; language above the dignity of the occasion; a pompous or ostentatious manner of writing or speaking.

  1. Bombast as a verb:

    To swell or fill out; to inflate, to pad.

  2. Bombast as a verb:

    To use high-sounding words; to speak or write in a pompous or ostentatious manner.

  1. Bombast as an adjective:

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