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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dramatic |
| Synonyms: | affected, amateur, artificial, campy, ceremonious, comic, dramaturgic, exaggerated, ham, hammy, histrionic, legitimate, mannered, melodramatic, meretricious, operatic, ostentatious, pompous, schmaltzy, show, showy, staged, stilted, superficial, theatric, thespian, tragic, unnatural, unreal, vaudeville |
| Antonyms: | comedic, real, undramatic, untheatrical |
| Main Entry: | flaunting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gaudy |
| Synonyms: | ornate, ostentatious, pretentious |
| Main Entry: | swanky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | plush |
| Synonyms: | chichi, classy, deluxe, exclusive, expensive, fancy, fashionable, flamboyant, flashy, glamorous, grand, lavish, luxurious, ostentatious, peacocky, plushy, posh, pretentious, rich, ritzy, sharp, showy, smart, snappy, splashy, stylish, sumptuous, swank, swish, tony, trendy, with-it |
| Antonyms: | modest, poor |
| Main Entry: | oratorical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rhetorical |
| Synonyms: | bombastic, declamatory, dramatic, elaborate, elocutionary, eloquent, expressive, fervid, forceful, gesticulative, gesturing, grandiloquent, histrionic, impassioned, important, imposing, inflated, intoning, lofty, long-winded, loud, noble, noisy, orotund, ostentatious, persuasive, pompous, senatorial, stagy, stentorian, stylistic, theatrical, tumid, verbose, vivid |
| Antonyms: | natural, simple, undramatic |
| Main Entry: | splashy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | showy |
| Synonyms: | flashy, gaudy, loud, opulent, ornate, ostentatious, sensational, snazzy, spectacular |
| Main Entry: | turgid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bombastic |
| Synonyms: | grandiloquent, grandiose, inflated, orotund, ostentatious, overblown, pompous, pretentious, stuffy, tumid |
| Notes: | turbid means 'unclear or murky' as in liquids; turgid means 'swollen or distended,' especially in relation to physical bodies |
| Antonyms: | humble, modest, quiet, reserved, self-effacing |
| Main Entry: | inkhorn |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pedantic |
| Synonyms: | abstruse, academic, arid, bookish, didactic, doctrinaire, donnish, dry, dull, egotistic, erudite, formal, formalistic, fussy, hairsplitting, learned, literary, nit-picking, ostentatious, overnice, particular, pedagogic, pedantical, pompous, priggish, punctilious, scholastic, schoolish, sententious, stilted |
| Main Entry: | la-di-da |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | affected |
| Synonyms: | apish, artificial, assumed, awkward, campy, chichi*, conceited, contrived, counterfeit, counterfeited, faked, false, feigned, fraud*, gone Hollywood, ham, hammy, high falutin', hollow, imitated, insincere, mannered, melodramatic, ostentatious, overdone, pedantic, phony, playacting, pompous, precious, pretended, pretentious, put-on, schmaltzy, self-conscious, shallow, sham*, simulated, spurious, stiff, stilted, studied, superficial, theatrical, unnatural |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | magnific |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | grand |
| Synonyms: | admirable, ambitious, august, awe-inspiring, dignified, dynamite, elevated, eminent, exalted, excellent, fab, fine, first-class*, first-rate, glorious, grandiose, haughty, illustrious, imposing, impressive, large, lofty, luxurious, magnificent, majestic, marvelous, monumental, noble, opulent, ostentatious, outstanding, palatial, pompous, pretentious, regal, rich, smashing, something else, splendid, stately, striking, sublime, sumptuous, super, superb, terrific, unreal, very good |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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