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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wordy; flowery in speech |
| Synonyms: | articulate, aureate, bombastic, declamatory, eloquent, embellished, euphuistic, exaggerated, flamboyant, flashy*, florid, fluent, glib*, grand, grandiloquent, grandiose, high-flown, hyperbolic, imposing, inflated, magniloquent, mouthy, oratorical, ornate, ostentatious, overblown, overdone, overwrought, pompous, pretentious, showy, silver-tongued, sonorous, stilted, swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgid, verbose, vocal, voluble, windy |
| Antonyms: | concise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | eloquent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having a skillful way with words |
| Synonyms: | affecting, ardent, articulate, expressive, facund, fervent, fervid, fluent, forceful, glib, grandiloquent, graphic, impassioned, impressive, indicative, magniloquent, meaningful, moving, outspoken, passionate, persuasive, poignant, potent, powerful, revealing, rhetorical, sententious, significant, silver-tongued, smooth-spoken, stirring, suggestive, telling, touching, vivid, vocal, voluble, well-expressed |
| Antonyms: | dull, inarticulate |
| Main Entry: | florid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very elaborate |
| Synonyms: | aureate, baroque, busy, decorative, embellished, euphuistic, figurative, flamboyant, flowery, fussy, garnished, grandiloquent, high-flown, luscious, magniloquent, ornamental, ornamented, ornate, overblown, pretentious, rhetorical, rich, sonorous |
| Notes: | floriated means 'decorated with flowers' while florid is 'blooming with flowers' |
| Antonyms: | inelaborate, natural, plain, undecorated, unornate |
| Main Entry: | flowery |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ornate, especially referring to speech or writing |
| Synonyms: | aureate, baroque, bombastic, declamatory, diffuse, embellished, euphemistic, euphuistic, fancy, figurative, florid, grandiloquent, high-flown, magniloquent, ornamented, overwrought, prolix, purple, redundant, rhetorical, rococo, sonorous, swollen, verbose, windy, wordy |
| Antonyms: | inelaborate, plain, unembellished, unflowery, unornate |
| Main Entry: | forensic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | judicial, legal |
| Synonyms: | argumentative, debatable, dialectic, dialectical, disputative, juridical, juristic, moot, polemical, rhetorical |
| Main Entry: | grandiloquent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pretentious, flowery (communication) |
| Synonyms: | aureate, big-talking, bombastic, declamatory, euphistic, fustian, high-flown, histrionic, inflated, magniloquent, oratorical, orotund, overblown, pompous, purple*, rhetorical, sonorous, swollen, tall-talking, verbose, windbag, windy |
| Notes: | grandiloquent means lofty in style, pompous, or bombastic; magniloquent means lofty and extravagant in speech |
| Antonyms: | plain, simple, unadorned, unpretentious |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inflated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exaggerated |
| Synonyms: | aggrandized, amplified, augmented, aureate, bloated, bombastic, diffuse, dilated, distended, dropsical, enlarged, euphuistic, extended, filled, flatulent, flowery, fustian, grandiloquent, grown, magnified, magniloquent, ostentatious, overblown, overestimated, pompous, pretentious, prolix, puffed, pumped up, ranting, rhapsodical, rhetorical, showy, spread, stretched, surcharged, swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgid, verbose, windy, wordy |
| Antonyms: | deflated, shrunken |
| Main Entry: | overblown |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | excessive, too much |
| Synonyms: | aureate, bombastic, disproportionate, euphuistic, flowery, fulsome, grandiloquent, hyped up, immoderate, inflated, magniloquent, oratorical, overdone, pompous, pretentious, profuse, rhetorical, sonorous, superfluous, turgid, undue, verbose, windy |
| Antonyms: | underrated, undervalued |
| Main Entry: | pompous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | arrogant, egotistic |
| Synonyms: | affected, bloated, boastful, bombastic, conceited, flatulent, flaunting, flowery, fustian, grandiloquent, grandiose, high and mighty, high-flown, highfaluting, imperious, important, inflated, magisterial, magniloquent, narcissistic, orotund, ostentatious, overbearing, overblown, pontifical, portentous, presumptuous, pretentious, puffed up, puffy, rhetorical, self-centered, self-important, selfish, showy, sonorous, stuck-up, supercilious, turgid, uppity, vain, vainglorious, windy |
| Antonyms: | dull, modest, plain, simple, unassuming |
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