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euphuistic
adjective as in bombastic
adjective as in florid
adjective as in flowery
adjective as in inflated
Strong matches
adjective as in overblown
adjective as in pretentious
Strong match
Weak matches
- affected
- assuming
- aureate
- big
- bombastic
- chichi
- conspicuous
- extravagant
- feigned
- flamboyant
- flashy
- flaunting
- flowery
- gaudy
- grandiloquent
- high-flown
- high-sounding
- highfalutin
- imposing
- inflated
- jazzy
- la-di-da
- lofty
- magniloquent
- mincing
- ornate
- overambitious
- puffed up
- put on
- rhetorical
- specious
- splashy
- swank
- too-too
- tumid
- utopian
- vainglorious
adjective as in rhetorical
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- articulate
- aureate
- bombastic
- declamatory
- eloquent
- embellished
- exaggerated
- flamboyant
- flashy
- florid
- fluent
- glib
- grand
- grandiloquent
- grandiose
- high-flown
- hyperbolic
- imposing
- inflated
- magniloquent
- mouthy
- ornate
- ostentatious
- overblown
- overdone
- overwrought
- pompous
- pretentious
- showy
- silver-tongued
- sonorous
- stilted
- swollen
- tumescent
- tumid
- turgid
- verbose
- voluble
- windy
Example Sentences
They are known at a later period to have acted some of Lily's Euphuistic plays, and one of Middleton's.
The book has given a word to the language; that affected word-placing style is known as euphuistic.
Here the pompous antithesis is evidently meant to caricature the peculiar Euphuistic sentence of court parlance.
Arbasto cannot cease gazing at her; he addresses to himself euphuistic speeches several pages long, but they do him no good.
They were careful by choosing appropriate titles for their novels to publicly connect themselves with the euphuistic cycle.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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