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flown diction
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flown diction
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flatulence
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a state of excessive gas in the alimentary canal
related words >
Barnumism
,
aeriness
,
affectation
,
bedizenment
,
big talk
,
bloat
,
bloatedness
,
bloating
,
blowing up
,
convolution
,
diastole
,
dilatation
,
dilation
,
distension
,
dropsy
,
edema
,
ethereality
,
fart
,
flashiness
,
flatulency
,
flatuosity
,
flatus
,
fluidity
,
fulsomeness
,
garishness
,
gas
,
gaseity
,
gaseous state
,
gaseousness
,
gassiness
,
gaudiness
,
grandiloquence
,
grandioseness
,
grandiosity
,
high-flown diction
,
inflatedness
,
inflation
,
intumescence
,
lexiphanicism
,
loftiness
,
luridness
,
magniloquence
,
mere rhetoric
,
meretriciousness
,
meteorism
,
orotundity
,
ostentation
,
ostentatious complexity
,
platitudinous ponderosity
,
polysyllabic profundity
,
pomposity
,
pompous prolixity
,
pompousness
,
pontification
,
pretension
,
pretentiousness
,
prose run mad
,
puff
,
puffiness
,
puffing
,
rhetoric
,
rhetoricalness
,
sensationalism
,
sententiousness
,
showiness
,
stiltedness
,
stretching
,
swell
,
swellage
,
swelling
,
swelling utterance
,
swollen phrase
,
swollenness
,
tall talk
,
tortuosity
,
tortuousness
,
tumefaction
,
tumescence
,
tumidity
,
tumidness
,
turgescence
,
turgidity
,
turgidness
,
tympanism
,
tympany
,
vapor pressure
,
vaporiness
,
vaporousness
,
wind
,
windiness
rhetoric
collapse
study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking)
using language effectively to please or persuade
related words >
Barnumism
,
affectation
,
articulateness
,
bedizenment
,
big talk
,
bluster
,
bombast
,
choice of words
,
command of language
,
command of words
,
composition
,
convolution
,
debating
,
declamation
,
demagogism
,
dialect
,
diction
,
effective style
,
elocution
,
eloquence
,
eloquent tongue
,
exaggeration
,
expression
,
expression of ideas
,
expressiveness
,
facundity
,
fashion
,
feeling for words
,
felicitousness
,
felicity
,
flashiness
,
flatulence
,
flatulency
,
forensics
,
form of speech
,
formulation
,
fulsomeness
,
fustian
,
garishness
,
gasconade
,
gaudiness
,
gift of expression
,
gift of gab
,
glibness
,
grace of expression
,
grammar
,
grandiloquence
,
grandioseness
,
grandiosity
,
graphicness
,
high-flown diction
,
highfalutin
,
homiletics
,
hot air
,
idiom
,
inflatedness
,
inflation
,
language
,
lecturing
,
lexiphanicism
,
literary style
,
locution
,
loftiness
,
long-windedness
,
luridness
,
magniloquence
,
manner
,
manner of speaking
,
mannerism
,
meaningfulness
,
mere rhetoric
,
meretriciousness
,
mode
,
mode of expression
,
oratory
,
orotundity
,
ostentation
,
ostentatious complexity
,
parlance
,
peculiarity
,
personal style
,
phrase
,
phraseology
,
phrasing
,
platform oratory
,
platitudinous ponderosity
,
polysyllabic profundity
,
pomposity
,
pompous prolixity
,
pompousness
,
pontification
,
pretension
,
pretentiousness
,
prolixity
,
prose run mad
,
public speaking
,
puffery
,
pyrotechnics
,
rabble-rousing
,
rant
,
rhapsody
,
rhetoricalness
,
rodomontade
,
sensationalism
,
sense of language
,
sententiousness
,
sesquipedality
,
showiness
,
silver tongue
,
slickness
,
smoothness
,
speaking
,
speech
,
speechcraft
,
speechification
,
speeching
,
speechmaking
,
stiltedness
,
strain
,
stump speaking
,
style
,
stylistic analysis
,
stylistics
,
swelling utterance
,
swollen phrase
,
swollenness
,
talk
,
tall talk
,
the grand style
,
the plain style
,
the sublime
,
tortuosity
,
tortuousness
,
trick
,
tumidity
,
tumidness
,
turgescence
,
turgidity
,
usage
,
use of words
,
usus loquendi
,
vein
,
verbiage
,
verbosity
,
vividness
,
way
,
windiness
,
wordage
,
wordcraft
,
wordiness
,
wording
big talk
collapse
related words >
Barnumism
,
affectation
,
aggrandizement
,
amplification
,
ballyhoo
,
bedizenment
,
blowing up
,
bullshit
,
bunk
,
bunkum
,
burlesque
,
caricature
,
convolution
,
dilatation
,
dilation
,
enhancement
,
enlargement
,
exaggerating
,
exaggeration
,
excess
,
exorbitance
,
expansion
,
extravagance
,
extreme
,
fancy talk
,
fine talk
,
fish story
,
flashiness
,
flatulence
,
flatulency
,
fulsomeness
,
garishness
,
gas
,
gaudiness
,
grandiloquence
,
grandioseness
,
grandiosity
,
heightening
,
high-flown diction
,
highfalutin
,
highfaluting
,
hot air
,
huckstering
,
hyperbole
,
hyperbolism
,
inflatedness
,
inflation
,
inordinacy
,
lexiphanicism
,
loftiness
,
luridness
,
magnification
,
magniloquence
,
mere rhetoric
,
meretriciousness
,
orotundity
,
ostentation
,
ostentatious complexity
,
overemphasis
,
overestimation
,
overkill
,
overstatement
,
platitudinous ponderosity
,
polysyllabic profundity
,
pomposity
,
pompous prolixity
,
pompousness
,
pontification
,
pretension
,
pretentiousness
,
prodigality
,
profuseness
,
prose run mad
,
puffery
,
puffing up
,
rhetoric
,
rhetoricalness
,
sensationalism
,
sententiousness
,
showiness
,
stiltedness
,
stretching
,
superlative
,
swelling utterance
,
swollen phrase
,
swollenness
,
tall story
,
tall talk
,
tortuosity
,
tortuousness
,
touting
,
travesty
,
tumidity
,
tumidness
,
turgescence
,
turgidity
pomposity
collapse
related words >
Barnumism
,
affectation
,
arrogance
,
assurance
,
assuredness
,
bedizenment
,
belief
,
big talk
,
buckram
,
ceremonial
,
ceremoniousness
,
ceremony
,
certitude
,
cocksureness
,
confidence
,
confidentness
,
conviction
,
convolution
,
courage
,
dignity
,
extrinsicality
,
faith
,
flashiness
,
flatulence
,
flatulency
,
form
,
formality
,
formalization
,
fulsomeness
,
garishness
,
gaudiness
,
grandiloquence
,
grandioseness
,
grandiosity
,
gravity
,
high-flown diction
,
hubris
,
impersonality
,
inflatedness
,
inflation
,
lexiphanicism
,
loftiness
,
luridness
,
magniloquence
,
mere rhetoric
,
meretriciousness
,
orotundity
,
ostentation
,
ostentatious complexity
,
overconfidence
,
oversureness
,
overweening
,
overweeningness
,
platitudinous ponderosity
,
poise
,
polysyllabic profundity
,
pomp
,
pompous prolixity
,
pompousness
,
pontificality
,
pontification
,
positiveness
,
pretension
,
pretentiousness
,
pride
,
primness
,
prose run mad
,
rhetoric
,
rhetoricalness
,
rigidness
,
ritual
,
rituality
,
security
,
self-assurance
,
self-confidence
,
self-importance
,
self-reliance
,
sensationalism
,
sententiousness
,
settled belief
,
showiness
,
solemnity
,
starchiness
,
stiffness
,
stiltedness
,
stuffiness
,
stylization
,
subjective certainty
,
sureness
,
surety
,
swelling utterance
,
swollen phrase
,
swollenness
,
tall talk
,
tortuosity
,
tortuousness
,
trust
,
tumidity
,
tumidness
,
turgescence
,
turgidity
,
weight
diction
collapse
related words >
articulation
,
delivery
,
elocution
,
enunciation
,
expression
,
expressiveness
,
inflection
,
intonation
,
language
,
oratory
,
parlance
,
phrase
,
phraseology
,
phrasing
,
presentation
,
pronunciation
,
rhetoric
,
speech
,
terminology
,
usage
,
verbalism
,
verbiage
,
vocabulary
,
wordage
,
wording
wording
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the manner in which something is expressed in words; "use concise military verbiage"- G.S.Patton
related words >
choice of words
,
composition
,
dialect
,
diction
,
expression
,
formulation
,
grammar
,
idiom
,
language
,
locution
,
mode
,
parlance
,
phrase
,
phraseology
,
phrasing
,
rhetoric
,
speech
,
style
,
talk
,
usage
,
use of words
,
usus loquendi
,
verbalism
,
verbiage
,
wordage
wordage
collapse
related words >
choice of words
,
composition
,
dialect
,
diction
,
expression
,
formulation
,
grammar
,
idiom
,
language
,
lexicon
,
lexis
,
locution
,
parlance
,
phrase
,
phraseology
,
phrasing
,
rhetoric
,
speech
,
stock of words
,
talk
,
thesaurus
,
usage
,
use of words
,
usus loquendi
,
verbalism
,
verbiage
,
vocabulary
,
wordhoard
,
wording
,
words
parlance
collapse
a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language
related words >
choice of words
,
composition
,
dialect
,
diction
,
expression
,
formulation
,
grammar
,
idiom
,
jargon
,
language
,
langue
,
lingo
,
lingua
,
locution
,
parole
,
personal usage
,
phrase
,
phraseology
,
phrasing
,
rhetoric
,
speech
,
talk
,
tongue
,
usage
,
use of words
,
usus loquendi
,
verbiage
,
wordage
,
wording
phrasing
collapse
the grouping of musical phrases in a melodic line
related words >
adaptation
,
arrangement
,
choice of words
,
composition
,
dialect
,
diction
,
expression
,
formulation
,
grammar
,
harmonization
,
idiom
,
instrumentation
,
intonation
,
language
,
locution
,
modulation
,
orchestration
,
parlance
,
phrase
,
phraseology
,
preparation
,
resolution
,
rhetoric
,
setting
,
solution
,
speech
,
suspension
,
talk
,
tone painting
,
transcription
,
usage
,
use of words
,
usus loquendi
,
verbalism
,
verbiage
,
wordage
,
wording
cockamamie
collapse
ludicrous, foolish; "gave me a cockamamie reason for not going"; "wore a goofy hat"; "a silly idea"; "some wacky plan for selling more books"
related words >
absurd
,
beyond belief
,
bizarre
,
crazy
,
extravagant
,
fantastic
,
foolish
,
grotesque
,
high-flown
,
incredible
,
laughable
,
ludicrous
,
monstrous
,
nonsensical
,
outrageous
,
outre
,
poppycockish
,
preposterous
,
ridiculous
,
weird
,
wild
gaudiness
collapse
related words >
Barnumism
,
affectation
,
apparent character
,
appearances
,
arsenic green
,
bedizenment
,
beggarliness
,
big talk
,
blatancy
,
brazenness
,
cheapness
,
clashing colors
,
coarseness
,
color clash
,
colorfulness
,
contemptibleness
,
convolution
,
crassness
,
crudeness
,
crudity
,
crumminess
,
dash
,
dazzle
,
dazzlingness
,
despicableness
,
display
,
earthiness
,
exteriors
,
external appearance
,
externals
,
extravagance
,
extravaganza
,
extravagation
,
facade
,
flagrancy
,
flamboyance
,
flashiness
,
flatulence
,
flatulency
,
front
,
fulsomeness
,
gaiety
,
garishness
,
gaudery
,
glare
,
glitter
,
gorgeousness
,
grandiloquence
,
grandioseness
,
grandiosity
,
grossness
,
high-flown diction
,
inflatedness
,
inflation
,
jaundiced yellow
,
jauntiness
,
jazziness
,
lexiphanicism
,
luridness
,
magniloquence
,
meanness
,
mere externals
,
mere rhetoric
,
meretriciousness
,
meritlessness
,
miserableness
,
obscenity
,
obtrusiveness
,
orotundity
,
ostent
,
ostentation
,
ostentatious complexity
,
outward appearance
,
outward show
,
paltriness
,
panache
,
pitiableness
,
pitifulness
,
platitudinous ponderosity
,
polysyllabic profundity
,
pomposity
,
pompous prolixity
,
pompousness
,
pontification
,
poorness
,
pretension
,
pretentiousness
,
prose run mad
,
public image
,
rawness
,
rhetoric
,
rhetoricalness
,
ribaldry
,
roughness
,
rudeness
,
sadness
,
screaming color
,
sensationalism
,
sententiousness
,
shabbiness
,
shamelessness
,
shocking pink
,
shoddiness
,
show
,
showiness
,
sorriness
,
speciousness
,
sportiness
,
stiltedness
,
superficiality
,
surface appearance
,
surface show
,
swelling utterance
,
swollen phrase
,
swollenness
,
tall talk
,
tawdriness
,
tortuosity
,
tortuousness
,
tumidity
,
tumidness
,
turgescence
,
turgidity
,
unworthiness
,
vain show
,
vileness
,
vulgarness
,
worthlessness
,
wretchedness
tony
collapse
related words >
a la mode
,
ambitious
,
chic
,
classy
,
exclusive
,
fancy
,
fashionable
,
flossy
,
high-flown
,
high-flying
,
high-toned
,
highfalutin
,
highfaluting
,
in
,
lofty
,
modish
,
ostentatious
,
pretentious
,
swank
,
swish
,
vaunting
mouthy
collapse
related words >
bombastic
,
declamatory
,
euphuistic
,
flatulent
,
florid
,
flowery
,
fustian
,
gabby
,
garrulous
,
gassy
,
high-flown
,
inflated
,
loose-tongued
,
loquacious
,
multiloquent
,
oratorical
,
overblown
,
pompous
,
swollen
,
talky
,
tumescent
,
tumid
,
turgescent
,
turgid
,
windy
vocalization
collapse
related words >
articulation
,
attack
,
bel canto
,
bravura
,
choral singing
,
coloratura
,
croon
,
crooning
,
delivery
,
diction
,
enunciation
,
folk singing
,
hum
,
humming
,
intonation
,
lyricism
,
mouth
,
mouthing
,
operatic singing
,
phonation
,
pronunciation
,
scat
,
scat singing
,
singing
,
sol-fa
,
sol-fa exercise
,
solfeggio
,
solmization
,
song
,
sounding
,
speaking
,
speech
,
tonic sol-fa
,
utterance
,
verbalization
,
vocal music
,
voice
,
voicing
,
warbling
,
yodel
,
yodeling
outre
collapse
related words >
absurd
,
beyond belief
,
bizarre
,
cockamamie
,
crazy
,
extravagant
,
fantastic
,
foolish
,
freakish
,
grotesque
,
high-flown
,
incredible
,
kinky
,
laughable
,
ludicrous
,
monstrous
,
nonsensical
,
odd
,
out-of-the-way
,
outlandish
,
outrageous
,
peculiar
,
poppycockish
,
preposterous
,
ridiculous
,
strange
,
ultra
,
unconventional
,
unusual
,
weird
,
wild
sensationalism
collapse
the journalistic use of subject matter that appeals to vulgar tastes; "the tabloids relied on sensationalism to maintain their circulation"
subject matter that is calculated to excite and please vulgar tastes
related words >
Barnumism
,
Thespian art
,
affectation
,
aggrandizement
,
amateur theatricals
,
amplification
,
ballyhoo
,
bedizenment
,
big talk
,
blatancy
,
blood and thunder
,
blowing up
,
brazenness
,
burlesque
,
caricature
,
colorfulness
,
convolution
,
crudeness
,
dash
,
dazzle
,
dazzlingness
,
demonstrativeness
,
dilatation
,
dilation
,
dramatic art
,
dramatic form
,
dramatic irony
,
dramatic stroke
,
dramatic structure
,
dramaticism
,
dramatics
,
dramatism
,
dramaturgy
,
emotional appeal
,
emotionalism
,
emotionality
,
emotionalization
,
emotionalizing
,
emotiveness
,
emotivity
,
enhancement
,
enlargement
,
exaggerating
,
exaggeration
,
excess
,
exorbitance
,
expansion
,
extravagance
,
extravaganza
,
extravagation
,
extreme
,
flagrancy
,
flamboyance
,
flashiness
,
flatulence
,
flatulency
,
fulsomeness
,
gaiety
,
garishness
,
gaudery
,
gaudiness
,
glare
,
glitter
,
gorgeousness
,
grandiloquence
,
grandioseness
,
grandiosity
,
heightening
,
high-flown diction
,
histrionics
,
histrionism
,
huckstering
,
human interest
,
hyperbole
,
hyperbolism
,
inflatedness
,
inflation
,
inordinacy
,
jauntiness
,
jazziness
,
lexiphanicism
,
loftiness
,
loudness
,
love interest
,
luridness
,
magnification
,
magniloquence
,
making scenes
,
melodrama
,
melodramatics
,
mere rhetoric
,
meretriciousness
,
nonrationalness
,
obtrusiveness
,
orotundity
,
ostentation
,
ostentatious complexity
,
overemphasis
,
overestimation
,
overkill
,
overstatement
,
panache
,
platitudinous ponderosity
,
play construction
,
polysyllabic profundity
,
pomposity
,
pompous prolixity
,
pompousness
,
pontification
,
pretension
,
pretentiousness
,
prodigality
,
profuseness
,
prose run mad
,
puffery
,
puffing up
,
rhetoric
,
rhetoricalness
,
sententiousness
,
shamelessness
,
showiness
,
sportiness
,
staginess
,
stiltedness
,
stretching
,
superlative
,
swelling utterance
,
swollen phrase
,
swollenness
,
tall talk
,
tawdriness
,
theatricalism
,
theatricality
,
theatricals
,
theatricism
,
theatrics
,
tortuosity
,
tortuousness
,
touting
,
travesty
,
tumidity
,
tumidness
,
turgescence
,
turgidity
,
unreasoningness
,
visceralness
,
vulgarness
,
yellow journalism
touted
collapse
related words >
aggrandized
,
amplified
,
ballyhooed
,
disproportionate
,
exaggerated
,
excessive
,
exorbitant
,
extravagant
,
extreme
,
grandiloquent
,
high-flown
,
hyperbolic
,
inflated
,
inordinate
,
magnified
,
overdone
,
overdrawn
,
overemphasized
,
overemphatic
,
overestimated
,
overgreat
,
overlarge
,
overpraised
,
oversold
,
overstated
,
overstressed
,
overwrought
,
prodigal
,
profuse
,
puffed
,
stretched
,
superlative
overstated
collapse
related words >
aggrandized
,
amplified
,
ballyhooed
,
disproportionate
,
exaggerated
,
excessive
,
exorbitant
,
extravagant
,
extreme
,
grandiloquent
,
high-flown
,
hyperbolic
,
inflated
,
inordinate
,
magnified
,
overdone
,
overdrawn
,
overemphasized
,
overemphatic
,
overestimated
,
overgreat
,
overlarge
,
overpraised
,
oversold
,
overstressed
,
overwrought
,
prodigal
,
profuse
,
puffed
,
stretched
,
superlative
,
touted
oversold
collapse
related words >
aggrandized
,
amplified
,
ballyhooed
,
disproportionate
,
exaggerated
,
excessive
,
exorbitant
,
extravagant
,
extreme
,
grandiloquent
,
high-flown
,
hyperbolic
,
inflated
,
inordinate
,
magnified
,
overdone
,
overdrawn
,
overemphasized
,
overemphatic
,
overestimated
,
overgreat
,
overlarge
,
overpraised
,
overstated
,
overstressed
,
overwrought
,
prodigal
,
profuse
,
puffed
,
stretched
,
superlative
,
touted
overdrawn
collapse
related words >
aggrandized
,
amplified
,
ballyhooed
,
disproportionate
,
exaggerated
,
excessive
,
exorbitant
,
extravagant
,
extreme
,
grandiloquent
,
high-flown
,
hyperbolic
,
inflated
,
inordinate
,
magnified
,
overdone
,
overemphasized
,
overemphatic
,
overestimated
,
overgreat
,
overlarge
,
overpraised
,
oversold
,
overstated
,
overstrained
,
overstressed
,
overwrought
,
prodigal
,
profuse
,
puffed
,
stretched
,
superlative
,
touted
phraseology
collapse
related words >
argot
,
cant
,
choice of words
,
composition
,
dialect
,
diction
,
expression
,
formulation
,
gibberish
,
gobbledygook
,
grammar
,
idiom
,
jargon
,
language
,
langue
,
lexicon
,
lexis
,
lingo
,
lingua
,
locution
,
mumbo jumbo
,
parlance
,
parole
,
patois
,
patter
,
personal usage
,
phrase
,
phrasing
,
rhetoric
,
scatology
,
slang
,
speech
,
stock of words
,
taboo language
,
talk
,
thesaurus
,
tongue
,
usage
,
use of words
,
usus loquendi
,
verbalism
,
verbiage
,
vernacular
,
vocabulary
,
vulgar language
,
wordage
,
wordhoard
,
wording
,
words
ostentation
collapse
pretentious or showy or vulgar display
lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
a gaudy outward display
related words >
Barnumism
,
acting
,
affectation
,
appearance
,
arabesque
,
arrantness
,
attitudinizing
,
baroque
,
baroqueness
,
bedizenment
,
big talk
,
blatancy
,
bluff
,
bluffing
,
boldness
,
cheating
,
chinoiserie
,
color
,
coloring
,
conspicuousness
,
convolution
,
deception
,
delusion
,
demonstration
,
disguise
,
display
,
dissemblance
,
dissembling
,
dissimulation
,
elaborateness
,
elegance
,
enactment
,
exhibit
,
exhibition
,
exhibitionism
,
exposition
,
exposure
,
facade
,
face
,
fakery
,
faking
,
false air
,
false front
,
false show
,
falsity
,
fanciness
,
feigning
,
feint
,
fineness
,
flagrance
,
flagrancy
,
flamboyance
,
flashiness
,
flatulence
,
flatulency
,
flaunting
,
floridity
,
floridness
,
flourish
,
floweriness
,
four-flushing
,
fraud
,
front
,
fulsomeness
,
garishness
,
gaudiness
,
gilt
,
gloss
,
grandiloquence
,
grandioseness
,
grandiosity
,
high relief
,
high-flown diction
,
humbug
,
humbuggery
,
imposture
,
inflatedness
,
inflation
,
lexiphanicism
,
loftiness
,
luridness
,
luxuriance
,
luxuriousness
,
magniloquence
,
masquerade
,
mere rhetoric
,
meretriciousness
,
moresque
,
noticeability
,
notoriety
,
notoriousness
,
obtrusiveness
,
opening
,
orotundity
,
ostentatious complexity
,
outstandingness
,
outward show
,
overelaborateness
,
overelegance
,
overornamentation
,
parade
,
performance
,
platitudinous ponderosity
,
playacting
,
polysyllabic profundity
,
pomposity
,
pompous prolixity
,
pompousness
,
pontification
,
pose
,
posing
,
posture
,
presentation
,
presentment
,
pretense
,
pretension
,
pretentiousness
,
pretext
,
production
,
projection
,
prominence
,
pronouncedness
,
prose run mad
,
representation
,
retrospective
,
rhetoric
,
rhetoricalness
,
richness
,
rococo
,
salience
,
saliency
,
seeming
,
semblance
,
sensationalism
,
sententiousness
,
sham
,
show
,
showiness
,
showing
,
simulacrum
,
simulation
,
speciousness
,
stiltedness
,
strikingness
,
strong relief
,
swelling utterance
,
swollen phrase
,
swollenness
,
tall talk
,
tortuosity
,
tortuousness
,
tumidity
,
tumidness
,
turgescence
,
turgidity
,
unfolding
,
unfoldment
,
unveiling
,
varnish
,
varnishing day
,
vernissage
,
window dressing
convolution
collapse
the action of coiling or twisting or winding together
related words >
Barnumism
,
aduncity
,
affectation
,
aquilinity
,
arachnoid
,
arbor vitae
,
arching
,
archipallium
,
arcuation
,
bedizenment
,
between brain
,
big talk
,
brain stem
,
cerebellar hemispheres
,
cerebellum
,
cerebral cortex
,
cerebrospinal fluid
,
cerebrum
,
circularity
,
complexity
,
complexness
,
complication
,
concameration
,
concavity
,
convexity
,
corpus callosum
,
corpus striatum
,
crabbedness
,
crookedness
,
curvation
,
curvature
,
curving
,
curvity
,
decurvation
,
decurvature
,
diencephalon
,
dura mater
,
endbrain
,
entanglement
,
excurvation
,
excurvature
,
fissure
,
flashiness
,
flatulence
,
flatulency
,
folia
,
forebrain
,
fornix
,
frontal lobe
,
fulsomeness
,
garishness
,
gaudiness
,
glial cells
,
globus pallidus
,
grandiloquence
,
grandioseness
,
grandiosity
,
gray matter
,
gyrus
,
high-flown diction
,
hindbrain
,
hippocampus
,
hookedness
,
hypothalamus
,
incurvation
,
incurvature
,
incurvity
,
inflatedness
,
inflation
,
intricacy
,
intricateness
,
involution
,
involvement
,
lenticular nucleus
,
lexiphanicism
,
limbic lobe
,
little brain
,
lobe
,
loftiness
,
luridness
,
magniloquence
,
mantle
,
medulla oblongata
,
meninges
,
mere rhetoric
,
meretriciousness
,
mesencephalon
,
metencephalon
,
midbrain
,
myelencephalon
,
neopallium
,
occipital lobe
,
optic chiasm
,
orotundity
,
ostentation
,
ostentatious complexity
,
pallium
,
parietal lobe
,
perplexity
,
pia mater
,
pineal body
,
pituitary body
,
platitudinous ponderosity
,
polysyllabic profundity
,
pomposity
,
pompous prolixity
,
pompousness
,
pons
,
pontification
,
pretension
,
pretentiousness
,
prose run mad
,
ramification
,
recurvation
,
recurvature
,
recurvity
,
reticular system
,
rhetoric
,
rhetoricalness
,
rhombencephalon
,
rondure
,
rotundity
,
sensationalism
,
sententiousness
,
showiness
,
sinuosity
,
sinuousness
,
stiltedness
,
subthalamus
,
subtlety
,
swelling utterance
,
swollen phrase
,
swollenness
,
tall talk
,
tanglement
,
technicality
,
telencephalon
,
temporal lobe
,
thalamus
,
tortuosity
,
tortuousness
,
tumidity
,
tumidness
,
turgescence
,
turgidity
,
vaulting
,
ventricle
,
vermis
,
white matter
laughable
collapse
related words >
absurd
,
amusing
,
beyond belief
,
bizarre
,
cockamamie
,
crazy
,
droll
,
eccentric
,
extravagant
,
fantastic
,
foolish
,
funny
,
grotesque
,
high-flown
,
hilarious
,
humorous
,
incongruous
,
incredible
,
ludicrous
,
monstrous
,
nonsensical
,
outrageous
,
outre
,
poppycockish
,
preposterous
,
priceless
,
quaint
,
quizzical
,
rich
,
ridiculous
,
risible
,
screaming
,
weird
,
whimsical
,
wild
,
witty
overestimated
collapse
related words >
aggrandized
,
amplified
,
ballyhooed
,
disproportionate
,
exaggerated
,
excessive
,
exorbitant
,
extravagant
,
extreme
,
grandiloquent
,
high-flown
,
hyperbolic
,
inflated
,
inordinate
,
magnified
,
overdone
,
overdrawn
,
overemphasized
,
overemphatic
,
overgreat
,
overlarge
,
overpraised
,
overrated
,
oversold
,
overstated
,
overstressed
,
overvalued
,
overwrought
,
prodigal
,
profuse
,
puffed
,
puffed up
,
stretched
,
superlative
,
touted
verbiage
collapse
overabundance of words
related words >
choice of words
,
circumambages
,
circumbendibus
,
circumlocution
,
cloud of words
,
composition
,
dialect
,
diction
,
expansiveness
,
expression
,
floridity
,
floridness
,
flow of words
,
flux of words
,
formulation
,
grammar
,
idiom
,
language
,
lexicon
,
lexis
,
locution
,
logorrhea
,
long-windedness
,
longiloquence
,
nimiety
,
parlance
,
periphrase
,
periphrasis
,
phrase
,
phraseology
,
phrasing
,
pleonasm
,
prolixity
,
redundancy
,
repetition
,
rhetoric
,
roundabout
,
speech
,
stock of words
,
talk
,
talkativeness
,
tautology
,
thesaurus
,
usage
,
use of words
,
usus loquendi
,
verbalism
,
verbality
,
verbosity
,
vocabulary
,
wordage
,
wordhoard
,
wordiness
,
wording
,
words
ludicrous
collapse
related words >
absurd
,
amusing
,
antic
,
beyond belief
,
bizarre
,
cockamamie
,
comic
,
comical
,
crazy
,
droll
,
eccentric
,
extravagant
,
fantastic
,
farcical
,
foolish
,
funny
,
grotesque
,
high-flown
,
hilarious
,
humorous
,
incongruous
,
incredible
,
laughable
,
monstrous
,
nonsensical
,
outrageous
,
outre
,
poppycockish
,
preposterous
,
priceless
,
quaint
,
quizzical
,
rich
,
ridiculous
,
risible
,
screaming
,
silly
,
weird
,
whimsical
,
wild
,
witty
scot free
collapse
free from harm or penalty; "he went scot-free"
related words >
afoot and lighthearted
,
at large
,
at liberty
,
clear
,
detached
,
disengaged
,
easygoing
,
emancipated
,
escaped
,
fled
,
flown
,
footloose
,
footloose and fancy-free
,
free
,
free and easy
,
free as air
,
freeborn
,
freed
,
fugitive
,
go-as-you-please
,
in the clear
,
liberated
,
loose
,
on the loose
,
out of
,
released
,
runaway
,
unattached
,
uncommitted
,
unengaged
,
uninvolved
,
well out of
condescending
collapse
related words >
arrogant
,
belittling
,
big
,
contemptuous
,
disdainful
,
domineering
,
haughty
,
high-faluting
,
high-flown
,
high-handed
,
high-hat
,
high-headed
,
high-nosed
,
hoity-toity
,
imperious
,
lofty
,
overbearing
,
patronizing
,
pompous
,
priggish
,
proud
,
purse-proud
,
sniffy
,
snippy
,
snobbish
,
snobby
,
snooty
,
snotty
,
stuck-up
,
superior
,
toplofty
,
uppish
,
uppity
,
upstage
pretension
collapse
a false or unsupportable quality
the advancing of a claim; "his pretension to the crown"; "the town still puts forward pretensions as a famous resort"
related words >
Barnumism
,
acting
,
affectation
,
affectedness
,
airs
,
airs and graces
,
alibi
,
ambitions
,
ambitiousness
,
apology
,
appearance
,
appurtenance
,
artificiality
,
aspiration
,
attitudinizing
,
authority
,
bedizenment
,
big talk
,
birthright
,
blind
,
bluff
,
bluffing
,
charade
,
cheating
,
claim
,
cloak
,
color
,
coloring
,
conjugal right
,
cover story
,
cover-up
,
deception
,
delusion
,
demand
,
device
,
disguise
,
dissemblance
,
dissembling
,
dissimulation
,
divine right
,
droit
,
due
,
excuse
,
facade
,
face
,
faculty
,
fakery
,
faking
,
false air
,
false front
,
false show
,
falsity
,
feigned belief
,
feigning
,
feint
,
flashiness
,
flatulence
,
flatulency
,
four-flushing
,
fraud
,
front
,
fulsomeness
,
garishness
,
gaudiness
,
gilt
,
gloss
,
grandiloquence
,
grandioseness
,
grandiosity
,
guise
,
handle
,
high-flown diction
,
humbug
,
humbuggery
,
hypocrisy
,
image
,
imposture
,
inalienable right
,
inflatedness
,
inflation
,
insincerity
,
interest
,
lame excuse
,
lexiphanicism
,
locus standi
,
loftiness
,
lofty affectations
,
luridness
,
magniloquence
,
make-believe
,
mannerism
,
mask
,
masquerade
,
mere rhetoric
,
mere show
,
meretriciousness
,
natural right
,
orotundity
,
ostensible motive
,
ostent
,
ostentation
,
ostentatious complexity
,
ostentatiousness
,
outward show
,
pageant
,
platitudinous ponderosity
,
playacting
,
polysyllabic profundity
,
pomposity
,
pompous prolixity
,
pompousness
,
pontification
,
poor excuse
,
pose
,
posing
,
posture
,
power
,
prerogative
,
prescription
,
presumptive right
,
pretending
,
pretense
,
pretensions
,
pretentiousness
,
pretext
,
proper claim
,
property right
,
prose run mad
,
protestation
,
prunes and prisms
,
public image
,
public motive
,
put-off
,
put-on
,
putting on airs
,
refuge
,
representation
,
rhetoric
,
rhetoricalness
,
right
,
screen
,
seeming
,
semblance
,
sensationalism
,
sententiousness
,
sham
,
show
,
showiness
,
simulacrum
,
simulation
,
smoke screen
,
speciousness
,
stalking-horse
,
stiltedness
,
stratagem
,
stylishness
,
subterfuge
,
swelling utterance
,
swollen phrase
,
swollenness
,
tall talk
,
title
,
tortuosity
,
tortuousness
,
trick
,
tumidity
,
tumidness
,
turgescence
,
turgidity
,
unnaturalness
,
varnish
,
veil
,
vested interest
,
vested right
,
window dressing
nonsensical
collapse
related words >
Pickwickian
,
absurd
,
asinine
,
askew
,
beyond belief
,
bizarre
,
cockamamie
,
crazy
,
dumb
,
extravagant
,
fantastic
,
fool
,
foolish
,
grotesque
,
high-flown
,
idiotic
,
imbecilic
,
incredible
,
irrational
,
laughable
,
loony
,
ludicrous
,
mad
,
meaningless
,
monstrous
,
moronic
,
nutty
,
outrageous
,
outre
,
poppycockish
,
preposterous
,
ridiculous
,
rubbishy
,
screwball
,
screwy
,
senseless
,
silly
,
skimble-skamble
,
stupid
,
trashy
,
twaddling
,
twaddly
,
warped
,
weird
,
wild
oratory
collapse
addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous); "he loved the sound of his own oratory"
related words >
Lady chapel
,
address
,
articulateness
,
articulation
,
chantry
,
chapel
,
chapel of ease
,
chapel royal
,
command of language
,
command of words
,
debating
,
declamation
,
demagogism
,
diction
,
effective style
,
elocution
,
eloquence
,
eloquent tongue
,
enunciation
,
expression
,
expressiveness
,
facundity
,
felicitousness
,
felicity
,
fluency
,
forensics
,
gift of expression
,
gift of gab
,
glibness
,
grandiloquence
,
graphicness
,
homiletics
,
lecturing
,
magniloquence
,
meaningfulness
,
oratorium
,
platform oratory
,
public speaking
,
pyrotechnics
,
rabble-rousing
,
rhetoric
,
sacellum
,
sacrament chapel
,
sacrarium
,
school chapel
,
side chapel
,
silver tongue
,
slickness
,
smoothness
,
speaking
,
speechcraft
,
speechification
,
speeching
,
speechmaking
,
stump speaking
,
vividness
,
wordcraft
uppity
collapse
related words >
arrogant
,
audacious
,
big
,
brash
,
bumptious
,
cold
,
condescending
,
contumelious
,
cool
,
disdainful
,
domineering
,
familiar
,
forward
,
haughty
,
high-faluting
,
high-flown
,
high-headed
,
high-nosed
,
hoity-toity
,
hubristic
,
insolent
,
insulting
,
lofty
,
obtrusive
,
overbearing
,
overpresumptuous
,
overweening
,
patronizing
,
presuming
,
presumptuous
,
procacious
,
proud
,
purse-proud
,
pushful
,
pushing
,
pushy
,
self-asserting
,
self-assertive
,
stuck-up
,
superior
,
toplofty
,
uppish
,
upstage
flossy
collapse
related words >
ambitious
,
capillary
,
cirrose
,
cirrous
,
classy
,
downy
,
fancy
,
feathery
,
fibered
,
fibroid
,
fibrous
,
flagelliform
,
fleecy
,
fluffy
,
funicular
,
furry
,
fuzzy
,
gossamery
,
hairlike
,
hairy
,
high-flown
,
high-flying
,
high-toned
,
highfalutin
,
highfaluting
,
hirsute
,
lanate
,
ligamental
,
lofty
,
nappy
,
ostentatious
,
peachy
,
pinnate
,
pretentious
,
pubescent
,
ropy
,
silky
,
stringy
,
taeniate
,
taeniform
,
threadlike
,
thready
,
tony
,
vaunting
,
velvety
,
wiry
,
woolly
stretched
collapse
(of muscles) relieved of stiffness by stretching; "well-stretched muscles are less susceptible to injury"
extended or spread over a wide area or distance; "broad fields lay stretched on both sides of us"
related words >
aggrandized
,
amplified
,
ballyhooed
,
disproportionate
,
dragged out
,
drawn
,
drawn out
,
elongated
,
exaggerated
,
excessive
,
exorbitant
,
extended
,
extravagant
,
extreme
,
grandiloquent
,
high-flown
,
hyperbolic
,
inflated
,
inordinate
,
lengthened
,
magnified
,
overdone
,
overdrawn
,
overemphasized
,
overemphatic
,
overestimated
,
overgreat
,
overlarge
,
overpraised
,
oversold
,
overstated
,
overstressed
,
overwrought
,
prodigal
,
profuse
,
prolongated
,
prolonged
,
protracted
,
puffed
,
pulled
,
spun out
,
straggling
,
strained
,
stretched out
,
strung out
,
superlative
,
taut
,
tense
,
tight
,
touted
out of
collapse
related words >
at large
,
away from
,
bankrupt in
,
bare of
,
bereaved
,
bereaved of
,
bereft
,
bereft of
,
cut off
,
denuded
,
denuded of
,
deprived of
,
destitute of
,
devoid of
,
disengaged
,
divested
,
empty of
,
escaped
,
ex
,
fled
,
flown
,
for want of
,
forlorn of
,
free
,
from
,
fugitive
,
in default of
,
in want of
,
lacking
,
loose
,
minus
,
missing
,
needing
,
on the loose
,
out
,
out of pocket
,
parted from
,
robbed of
,
runaway
,
scant of
,
scot-free
,
shorn of
,
short
,
short of
,
shy
,
shy of
,
stripped of
,
unblessed with
,
unpossessed of
,
void of
,
wanting
,
well out of
stuck up
collapse
related words >
aggressively self-confident
,
arrogant
,
big
,
biggety
,
bumptious
,
chesty
,
cocky
,
conceited
,
condescending
,
domineering
,
haughty
,
high-faluting
,
high-flown
,
high-headed
,
high-nosed
,
hoity-toity
,
immodest
,
know-it-all
,
lofty
,
narcissistic
,
obtrusive
,
overbearing
,
overwise
,
patronizing
,
peacockish
,
peacocky
,
perk
,
perky
,
pert
,
proud
,
puffed up
,
purse-proud
,
self-conceited
,
self-opinionated
,
smart-alecky
,
superior
,
swelled-headed
,
toplofty
,
uppish
,
uppity
,
upstage
,
vainglorious
orotund
collapse
(of sounds) full and rich; "orotund tones"; "the rotund and reverberating phrase"; "pear-shaped vowels"
related words >
Gongoresque
,
Johnsonian
,
affected
,
bedizened
,
big-sounding
,
convoluted
,
declamatory
,
elevated
,
euphuistic
,
flamboyant
,
flaming
,
flashy
,
flaunting
,
fulsome
,
garish
,
gaudy
,
grandiloquent
,
grandiose
,
grandisonant
,
high-flowing
,
high-flown
,
high-flying
,
high-sounding
,
highfalutin
,
inkhorn
,
labyrinthine
,
lexiphanic
,
lofty
,
lurid
,
magniloquent
,
meretricious
,
ostentatious
,
overdone
,
overelaborate
,
overinvolved
,
overwrought
,
pedantic
,
pompous
,
pretentious
,
rhetorical
,
sensational
,
sensationalistic
,
sententious
,
showy
,
sonorous
,
stilted
,
tall
,
tortuous
Johnsonian
collapse
related words >
Gongoresque
,
affected
,
bedizened
,
big-sounding
,
convoluted
,
declamatory
,
elevated
,
euphuistic
,
flamboyant
,
flaming
,
flashy
,
flaunting
,
fulsome
,
garish
,
gaudy
,
grandiloquent
,
grandiose
,
grandisonant
,
high-flowing
,
high-flown
,
high-flying
,
high-sounding
,
highfalutin
,
inkhorn
,
labyrinthine
,
lexiphanic
,
lofty
,
lurid
,
magniloquent
,
meretricious
,
orotund
,
ostentatious
,
overdone
,
overelaborate
,
overinvolved
,
overwrought
,
pedantic
,
pompous
,
pretentious
,
rhetorical
,
sensational
,
sensationalistic
,
sententious
,
showy
,
sonorous
,
stilted
,
tall
,
tortuous
bombastic
collapse
ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"
related words >
Latinate
,
aureate
,
awkward
,
big
,
bloated
,
cramped
,
cumbrous
,
declamatory
,
elephantine
,
euphuistic
,
extravagant
,
flatulent
,
flowery
,
forced
,
formal
,
fustian
,
gassy
,
grandiloquent
,
grandiose
,
guinde
,
halting
,
heavy
,
high-flown
,
high-swelling
,
highfalutin
,
highfaluting
,
inflated
,
inkhorn
,
labored
,
leaden
,
lumbering
,
magniloquent
,
mouthy
,
overblown
,
pompous
,
ponderous
,
pontifical
,
pretentious
,
self-important
,
sesquipedalian
,
solemn
,
sonorous
,
stiff
,
stilted
,
stuffy
,
swollen
,
tall
,
tumescent
,
tumid
,
turgescent
,
turgid
,
unwieldy
,
windy
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