bombastic vs flowery

bombastic

adj
  • showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms; grandiloquent; pompous 

  • High-sounding but with little meaning. 

flowery

adj
  • overly complicated or elaborate; with grandiloquent expressions; marked by rhetorical elegance 

  • Decorated with or abundant in flowers. 

  • Pertaining to flowers. 

How often have the words bombastic and flowery occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )