Exact Match:
- elocutionary
- (used of style of speaking) overly embellished; "an elocutionary Oxonian delivery"
- of or relating to elocution; "elocutionary recitals"
Synonyms:
- no synonyms found
Related Words:
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- affected,
- aureate,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- bombastic,
- convoluted,
- elevated,
- elocutionary,
- eloquent,
- euphuistic,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- flowery,
- forensic,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- inkhorn,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- meretricious,
- oratorical,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- pedantic,
- pompous,
- pretentious,
- rhetorical,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- showy,
- sonorous,
- stilted,
- tall,
- tortuous
- eloquent
collapse - expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively; "able to dazzle with his facile tongue"; "silver speech" related words >
- Ciceronian,
- Demosthenian,
- Demosthenic,
- Tullian,
- affecting,
- ardent,
- articulate,
- cogent,
- convincing,
- declamatory,
- effective,
- elocutionary,
- expressive,
- facile,
- facund,
- felicitous,
- fervent,
- fervid,
- fluent,
- forceful,
- forensic,
- free-speaking,
- free-spoken,
- glib,
- graphic,
- high,
- impassioned,
- impressive,
- incisive,
- indicative,
- lofty,
- loud-speaking,
- loud-spoken,
- meaningful,
- oratorical,
- outspoken,
- passionate,
- persuasive,
- plain-speaking,
- plain-spoken,
- poignant,
- potent,
- powerful,
- pregnant,
- revealing,
- rhetorical,
- rich,
- sententious,
- significant,
- silver,
- silver-tongued,
- slick,
- smooth,
- smooth-spoken,
- smooth-tongued,
- soft-speaking,
- soft-spoken,
- speaking,
- spellbinding,
- striking,
- suggestive,
- talkative,
- talking,
- telling,
- touching,
- trenchant,
- true-speaking,
- vivid,
- vocal,
- voluble,
- well-spoken
- rhetorical
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- concerned with effect or style of writing and speaking; "a rhetorical question is one asked solely to produce an effect (especially to make an assertion) rather than to elicit a reply"
- of or relating to rhetoric; "accepted two or three verbal and rhetorical changes I suggested"- W.A.White; "the rhetorical sin of the meaningless variation"- Lewis Mumford related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- affected,
- articulate,
- artificial,
- aureate,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- bombastic,
- chichi,
- contrived,
- convoluted,
- declamatory,
- elevated,
- elocutionary,
- eloquent,
- embellished,
- euphuistic,
- exaggerated,
- expressive,
- extravagant,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- florid,
- flowery,
- fluent,
- for effect,
- forensic,
- fulsome,
- fustian,
- garish,
- gassy,
- gaudy,
- glib,
- grand,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- imposing,
- inflated,
- inkhorn,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- linguistic,
- lofty,
- long-winded,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- meretricious,
- mouthy,
- oratorical,
- ornate,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overblown,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- pedantic,
- poetic,
- pompous,
- pretentious,
- prolix,
- purple,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- sesquipedalian,
- showy,
- sonorous,
- stilted,
- stylistic,
- swelling,
- swollen,
- tall,
- tortuous,
- tumescent,
- tumid,
- turgid,
- unanswerable,
- vocal,
- voluble,
- windy,
- wordy
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