bombastic vs grandiose

bombastic

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

  • High-sounding but with little meaning. 

grandiose

adj
  • Pompous or pretentious. 

  • Large and impressive, in size, scope or extent. 

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