Exact Match:
- oratorical
- characteristic of an orator or oratory; "oratorical prose"; "harangued his men in an oratorical way"- Robert Graves
Synonyms:
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Related Words:
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- affected,
- aureate,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- bombastic,
- convoluted,
- elevated,
- elocutionary,
- eloquent,
- euphuistic,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
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- flowery,
- forensic,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- grandiloquent,
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- grandisonant,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- inkhorn,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- meretricious,
- oratorical,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
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- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
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- rhetorical,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- showy,
- sonorous,
- stilted,
- tall,
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- overblown
collapse - past the stage of full bloom; "overblown roses" related words >
- arty,
- aureate,
- big,
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- glutted,
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- grandiloquent,
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- imposing,
- in spate,
- jam-packed,
- jammed,
- magniloquent,
- obese,
- oratorical,
- over the hill,
- overburdened,
- overcharged,
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- overflowing,
- overfraught,
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- overfull,
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- overstuffed,
- oversupplied,
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- packed,
- plethoric,
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- ready to burst,
- running over,
- satiated,
- saturated,
- soaked,
- sonorous,
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- stuffed,
- stuffed up,
- supercharged,
- supersaturated,
- surcharged,
- surfeited,
- swollen,
- tumescent,
- tumid,
- turgid,
- windy
- 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,
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- facund,
- felicitous,
- fervent,
- fervid,
- fluent,
- forceful,
- forensic,
- free-speaking,
- free-spoken,
- glib,
- graphic,
- high,
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- incisive,
- indicative,
- lofty,
- loud-speaking,
- loud-spoken,
- meaningful,
- oratorical,
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- plain-speaking,
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- poignant,
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- rhetorical,
- rich,
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- silver,
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- soft-speaking,
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- speaking,
- spellbinding,
- striking,
- suggestive,
- talkative,
- talking,
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- touching,
- trenchant,
- true-speaking,
- vivid,
- vocal,
- voluble,
- well-spoken
- aureate,
- baleful,
- balky,
- base,
- bearish,
- bitchy,
- bombastic,
- breachy,
- cankered,
- cantankerous,
- churlish,
- common,
- consonant,
- contrary,
- contumacious,
- crabbed,
- cranky,
- cross,
- cross-grained,
- crotchety,
- crusty,
- cussed,
- declamatory,
- defiant,
- difficult,
- disagreeable,
- euphuistic,
- excitable,
- feisty,
- flowery,
- fractious,
- froward,
- grandiloquent,
- harmful,
- hateful,
- huffish,
- huffy,
- impatient of control,
- iniquitous,
- invidious,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- loud,
- magniloquent,
- malefic,
- maleficent,
- malicious,
- malign,
- malignant,
- mean,
- nasty,
- noxious,
- obstreperous,
- oratorical,
- orotund,
- paltry,
- perverse,
- plangent,
- poor,
- recalcitrant,
- refractory,
- resounding,
- restive,
- ringing,
- rotund,
- round,
- rubbishy,
- shoddy,
- sleazy,
- snappish,
- sonorous,
- spiteful,
- spleeny,
- splenetic,
- stentorian,
- stuffy,
- sulky,
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- tatty,
- testy,
- ugly,
- unruly,
- vibrant,
- vinegarish,
- vinegary,
- waspish,
- wayward,
- wicked,
- wild,
- wrongheaded
- rhetorical
collapse
- 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,
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- flashy,
- flaunting,
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- 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,
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- sententious,
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- showy,
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- stilted,
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- swollen,
- tall,
- tortuous,
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- turgid,
- unanswerable,
- vocal,
- voluble,
- windy,
- wordy
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- affected,
- ambitious,
- arrogant,
- aureate,
- bedizened,
- big,
- big-sounding,
- bombastic,
- classy,
- condescending,
- convoluted,
- declamatory,
- domineering,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- extravagant,
- fancy,
- flamboyant,
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- flaunting,
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- haughty,
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- hoity-toity,
- inflated,
- inkhorn,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lexiphanicism,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- meretricious,
- oratorical,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overbearing,
- overdone,
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- overinvolved,
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- patronizing,
- pedantic,
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- pretentious,
- proud,
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- rodomontade,
- sensational,
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- sententious,
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- stilted,
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- swollen,
- tall,
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- toplofty,
- tortuous,
- uppish,
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- windy
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- achingly sweet,
- affected,
- agreeable,
- agreeable-sounding,
- appealing,
- ariose,
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- aureate,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- bombastic,
- booming,
- canorous,
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- catchy,
- clangorous,
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- consonant,
- convoluted,
- deafening,
- declamatory,
- droning,
- dulcet,
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- earthshaking,
- elevated,
- euphonic,
- euphonious,
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- fine-toned,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
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- flowery,
- forte,
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- full,
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- garish,
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- golden,
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- grandiloquent,
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- high-flowing,
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- high-flying,
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- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
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- lurid,
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- melic,
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- mellow,
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- meretricious,
- monotone,
- monotonic,
- music-flowing,
- music-like,
- musical,
- noiseful,
- oratorical,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overblown,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- pealing,
- pedantic,
- piercing,
- plangent,
- pleasant,
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- pompous,
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- pulsing,
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- resonant,
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- rhetorical,
- rich,
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- round,
- sensational,
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- sententious,
- showy,
- silver-toned,
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- singable,
- songful,
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- soniferous,
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- stentoraphonic,
- stentorian,
- stentorious,
- stilted,
- sweet,
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- sweet-sounding,
- tall,
- throbbing,
- thunderous,
- tonal,
- toneless,
- tonitruant,
- tonitruous,
- tortuous,
- tunable,
- tuneful,
- uproarious,
- vibrant,
- vibrating,
- window-rattling
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