Related Words:
- conspicuous
collapse - obvious to the eye or mind; "a tower conspicuous at a great distance"; "wore conspicuous neckties"; "made herself conspicuous by her exhibitionistic preening" related words >
- appalling,
- apparent,
- arrant,
- arresting,
- astonishing,
- awe-inspiring,
- awesome,
- blatant,
- bold,
- celebrated,
- clean-cut,
- clear,
- clear as crystal,
- clear-cut,
- consequential,
- crystal-clear,
- defined,
- definite,
- distinct,
- distinguished,
- egregious,
- eminent,
- esteemed,
- estimable,
- evident,
- exceptional,
- extraordinary,
- fabulous,
- fantastic,
- flagrant,
- flashy,
- formidable,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- glaring,
- glorious,
- hanging out,
- illustrious,
- important,
- impressive,
- in focus,
- in relief,
- in the foreground,
- in the limelight,
- incontestable,
- incontrovertible,
- incredible,
- loud,
- lurid,
- manifest,
- marked,
- marvelous,
- memorable,
- noble,
- notable,
- noteworthy,
- noticeable,
- notorious,
- obtrusive,
- obvious,
- of mark,
- open-and-shut,
- openhanded,
- ostensible,
- ostentatious,
- outstanding,
- palpable,
- patent,
- perceptible,
- plain,
- pointed,
- prestigious,
- prominent,
- pronounced,
- rare,
- remarkable,
- rememberable,
- reputable,
- salient,
- showy,
- signal,
- significant,
- special,
- staring,
- stark-staring,
- sticking out,
- striking,
- superior,
- tawdry,
- telling,
- to the front,
- uncommon,
- unforgettable,
- unmistakable,
- unquestionable,
- unusual,
- vivid,
- vulgar,
- well-defined,
- well-marked,
- well-pronounced,
- well-resolved,
- wonderful
- flamboyant
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- richly and brilliantly colorful related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- affected,
- arabesque,
- baroque,
- bedazzling,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- blinding,
- bright,
- bright and shining,
- brilliant,
- busy,
- chichi,
- convoluted,
- dashing,
- dazzling,
- declamatory,
- decorated,
- effulgent,
- elaborate,
- elegant,
- elevated,
- embellished,
- euphuistic,
- extravagant,
- fancy,
- fine,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- florid,
- flowery,
- frilly,
- fulgent,
- fulgid,
- fulsome,
- fussy,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- glaring,
- glary,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- high-wrought,
- highfalutin,
- inkhorn,
- jaunty,
- labored,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- luscious,
- luxuriant,
- luxurious,
- magniloquent,
- meretricious,
- moresque,
- ornamented,
- ornate,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overelegant,
- overinvolved,
- overlabored,
- overworked,
- overwrought,
- peacockish,
- peacocky,
- pedantic,
- picturesque,
- pompous,
- pretentious,
- pretty-pretty,
- rakish,
- refulgent,
- resplendent,
- rhetorical,
- rich,
- rococo,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- showy,
- sonorous,
- splashy,
- splendent,
- splendid,
- splendorous,
- stilted,
- swank,
- swashbuckling,
- tall,
- tortuous,
- vivid,
- wide
- Byzantine,
- accurate,
- agitated,
- arabesque,
- attentive,
- baroque,
- bustling,
- busy,
- chichi,
- choosy,
- close,
- conscientious,
- conscionable,
- correct,
- critical,
- dainty,
- delicate,
- demanding,
- detailed,
- difficult,
- discriminating,
- elaborate,
- elegant,
- exact,
- exacting,
- exigent,
- exquisite,
- fancy,
- fastidious,
- fidgety,
- fine,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- finikin,
- flamboyant,
- florid,
- flowery,
- fluttering,
- fluttery,
- fretful,
- frilly,
- full,
- fuss-budgety,
- fussing,
- gingerbread,
- hard to please,
- heedful,
- high-wrought,
- hopping,
- humming,
- hustling,
- irritable,
- jumpy,
- labored,
- lively,
- luxuriant,
- luxurious,
- meticulous,
- minute,
- moresque,
- narrow,
- nice,
- nit-picking,
- ornate,
- ostentatious,
- overelaborate,
- overelegant,
- overlabored,
- overworked,
- overwrought,
- painstaking,
- particular,
- pawky,
- pernickety,
- persnickety,
- picayune,
- picky,
- picturesque,
- popping,
- precise,
- precisianistic,
- precisionistic,
- pretty-pretty,
- punctilious,
- punctual,
- queasy,
- querulous,
- refined,
- religious,
- restive,
- restless,
- rich,
- rigid,
- rigorous,
- rococo,
- scrupulous,
- scrutinizing,
- special,
- specific,
- squeamish,
- strict,
- subtle,
- tense,
- turbulent,
- uneasy,
- unquiet,
- unrestful,
- unsettled
- flashy
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- (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- ablaze,
- affected,
- aflame,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- blatant,
- blazing,
- blinding,
- brave,
- bravura,
- braw,
- brazen,
- burning,
- cheap,
- chichi,
- chintzy,
- convoluted,
- cosmetic,
- crude,
- daring,
- dashing,
- declamatory,
- dressy,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- exhibitionistic,
- facile,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flaring,
- flash,
- flashing,
- flaunting,
- florid,
- frilly,
- frothy,
- fulgurant,
- fulgurating,
- fulsome,
- gallant,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- gay,
- glaring,
- glib,
- glittering,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- inkhorn,
- insubstantial,
- jaunty,
- jazzy,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- loud,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- meretricious,
- meteoric,
- ornate,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overbright,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- pedantic,
- pompous,
- pretentious,
- rakish,
- raw,
- rhetorical,
- screaming,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- shallow,
- showy,
- shrieking,
- skin-deep,
- slick,
- snazzy,
- sonorous,
- sparkling,
- splashy,
- splurgy,
- sporty,
- stilted,
- superficial,
- surface,
- tacky,
- tall,
- tasteless,
- tawdry,
- thin,
- tinsel,
- tortuous,
- vulgar
- 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
- 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
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- Latinate,
- affected,
- artificial,
- aureate,
- awkward,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- bloated,
- bombastic,
- buckram,
- cardboard,
- clumsy,
- conventional,
- convoluted,
- cramped,
- cumbrous,
- declamatory,
- decorous,
- elephantine,
- elevated,
- erect,
- euphuistic,
- exalted,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flatulent,
- flaunting,
- flowery,
- forced,
- formal,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gassy,
- gaudy,
- graceless,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- guinde,
- halting,
- heavy,
- high,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- in buckram,
- inflated,
- inkhorn,
- la-di-da,
- labored,
- labyrinthine,
- leaden,
- lexiphanic,
- lifted,
- lofty,
- lumbering,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- mannered,
- meretricious,
- mincing,
- muscle-bound,
- on stilts,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overblown,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- pedantic,
- pompous,
- ponderous,
- pontifical,
- pretentious,
- prim,
- raised,
- rampant,
- rhetorical,
- rigid,
- self-important,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- sesquipedalian,
- showy,
- solemn,
- sonorous,
- starch,
- starched,
- stiff,
- stuffy,
- sublime,
- swollen,
- tall,
- too-too,
- tortuous,
- tumid,
- turgid,
- ungraceful,
- unnatural,
- unwieldy,
- upcast,
- upflung,
- uplifted,
- upraised,
- upreared,
- upright,
- upthrown,
- wooden
- pretentious
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- making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction; "a pretentious country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious scholarly edition" related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Gongoristic,
- Johnsonian,
- Marinistic,
- affected,
- ambitious,
- arrogant,
- artificial,
- arty,
- aureate,
- bedizened,
- big,
- big-sounding,
- bombastic,
- chichi,
- classy,
- convoluted,
- declamatory,
- elaborate,
- elaborated,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- exaggerated,
- extravagant,
- fancy,
- feigned,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- flossy,
- flowery,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gassy,
- gaudy,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- haughty,
- high and mighty,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-hat,
- high-sounding,
- high-swelling,
- high-toned,
- highfalutin,
- highfaluting,
- histrionic,
- hoity-toity,
- hyperelegant,
- imposing,
- inflated,
- inkhorn,
- insincere,
- la-di-da,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- maniere,
- mannered,
- meretricious,
- mincing,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overacted,
- overblown,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overelegant,
- overinvolved,
- overnice,
- overrefined,
- overwrought,
- peacockish,
- peacocky,
- pedantic,
- pompous,
- precieuse,
- precieux,
- precious,
- put-on,
- rhetorical,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- showy,
- snobbish,
- snotty,
- sonorous,
- splashy,
- stagy,
- stilted,
- studied,
- superficial,
- swank,
- swollen,
- tall,
- theatrical,
- tony,
- too-too,
- tortuous,
- tumid,
- turgid,
- unnatural,
- utopian,
- vainglorious,
- vaunting,
- visionary,
- windy
- loud
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- characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity; "a group of loud children"; "loud thunder"; "her voice was too loud"; "loud trombones" related words >
- aloud,
- blaring,
- blatant,
- blinding,
- booming,
- brassy,
- brazen,
- brazenfaced,
- chintzy,
- clamant,
- clamorous,
- coarse,
- colorful,
- crass,
- crude,
- crying,
- deafening,
- demanding,
- draining,
- ear-piercing,
- ear-rending,
- ear-splitting,
- earsplitting,
- earthshaking,
- earthy,
- exacting,
- exigent,
- exorbitant,
- extortionate,
- extravagant,
- flagrant,
- flaring,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- forte,
- fortemente,
- fortissimo,
- full,
- fulminating,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- glaring,
- gorgeous,
- grasping,
- gross,
- harsh,
- hoarse,
- importunate,
- in full cry,
- insistent,
- instant,
- intense,
- jazzy,
- loud-sounding,
- loudish,
- loudly,
- lurid,
- lustily,
- meretricious,
- noisily,
- noisy,
- obnoxious,
- obscene,
- obtrusive,
- offensive,
- ostentatious,
- overbright,
- pealing,
- penetrating,
- persistent,
- pertinacious,
- piercing,
- plangent,
- pressing,
- pungent,
- raucous,
- raw,
- reeking,
- resonant,
- resounding,
- resoundingly,
- ribald,
- ringing,
- ringingly,
- roaring,
- rough,
- rude,
- screaming,
- sensational,
- shameless,
- showy,
- shrieking,
- snazzy,
- sonorous,
- spectacular,
- splashy,
- stentoraphonic,
- stentorian,
- stentorious,
- stertorous,
- strident,
- tasteless,
- tawdry,
- taxing,
- thundering,
- thunderous,
- tinsel,
- tonitruant,
- tonitruous,
- uproariously,
- urgent,
- vulgar,
- window-rattling
- flowery
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- marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details; "a flowery speech"; "ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato"-John Milton
- of or relating to or suggestive of flowers; "a flowery hat"; "flowery wine" related words >
- Gongoristic,
- adorned,
- affected,
- allusive,
- ambrosial,
- arabesque,
- aromatic,
- artificial,
- aureate,
- balmy,
- baroque,
- befrilled,
- blooming,
- bloomy,
- blossoming,
- bombastic,
- busy,
- chichi,
- colored,
- declamatory,
- decorated,
- diffuse,
- efflorescent,
- elaborate,
- elaborated,
- elegant,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- essenced,
- euphuistic,
- fancy,
- festooned,
- figurative,
- figured,
- fine,
- flamboyant,
- floral,
- floreate,
- florescent,
- floriate,
- floriated,
- floricultural,
- florid,
- flowered,
- flowering,
- fragrant,
- frilly,
- fruity,
- fussy,
- garden,
- grandiloquent,
- high-flown,
- high-wrought,
- horticultural,
- hortulan,
- in bloom,
- in blossom,
- in flower,
- incense-breathing,
- inflated,
- inflorescent,
- labored,
- lush,
- luxuriant,
- luxurious,
- magniloquent,
- mannered,
- metaphorical,
- moresque,
- multiflorous,
- musky,
- odorate,
- odoriferous,
- odorous,
- ornamented,
- ornate,
- ostentatious,
- overblown,
- overcharged,
- overelaborate,
- overelegant,
- overlabored,
- overloaded,
- overworked,
- overwrought,
- perfumed,
- perfumy,
- picturesque,
- pompous,
- pretty-pretty,
- prolix,
- purple,
- radiciflorous,
- redolent,
- redundant,
- referential,
- rhizanthous,
- rich,
- rococo,
- savory,
- scented,
- showy,
- sonorous,
- spicy,
- sweet,
- sweet-scented,
- sweet-smelling,
- swollen,
- thuriferous,
- trolatitious,
- tropological,
- uniflorous,
- verbose,
- wordy
- inflated
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- expanded by (or as if by) gas or air; "an inflated balloon" related words >
- accelerated,
- aggrandized,
- amplified,
- augmented,
- aureate,
- ballyhooed,
- beefed-up,
- big,
- bloated,
- blown up,
- bombastic,
- boosted,
- broadened,
- cocky,
- conceited,
- deepened,
- diffuse,
- dilated,
- disproportionate,
- distended,
- dropsical,
- edematous,
- egotistic,
- elevated,
- enchymatous,
- enhanced,
- enlarged,
- exaggerated,
- excessive,
- exorbitant,
- expanded,
- extended,
- extravagant,
- extreme,
- fat,
- flatulent,
- flowery,
- formal,
- fustian,
- gassy,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- heightened,
- high-flown,
- high-swelling,
- highfalutin,
- highfaluting,
- hiked,
- hyperbolic,
- immodest,
- incrassate,
- increased,
- inordinate,
- intensified,
- jazzed up,
- magnified,
- magniloquent,
- mouthy,
- multiplied,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overblown,
- overdone,
- overdrawn,
- overemphasized,
- overemphatic,
- overestimated,
- overgreat,
- overlarge,
- overpraised,
- oversold,
- overstated,
- overstressed,
- overwrought,
- plethoric,
- pompous,
- pontifical,
- pretentious,
- prodigal,
- profuse,
- proliferated,
- prolix,
- puffed,
- puffed up,
- puffy,
- pursy,
- raised,
- ranting,
- reinforced,
- rhapsodical,
- rhetorical,
- self-important,
- showy,
- smug,
- solemn,
- spread,
- stiffened,
- stilted,
- strengthened,
- stretched,
- stuffy,
- superlative,
- swelled,
- swelled-headed,
- swollen,
- tall,
- tightened,
- touted,
- tumescent,
- tumid,
- turgescent,
- turgid,
- vain,
- ventose,
- verbose,
- widened,
- windy,
- wordy
- swank
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- imposingly fashionable and elegant; "a swank apartment" related words >
- Babylonian,
- Corinthian,
- airs,
- awe-inspiring,
- awful,
- barbaric,
- bounce,
- brave show,
- braw,
- chic,
- chichi,
- classy,
- clothes-conscious,
- cock,
- cosmopolitan,
- dapper,
- dashing,
- deluxe,
- dressed to advantage,
- dressed to kill,
- elaborate,
- elegant,
- exquisite,
- extravagant,
- fancy,
- fine,
- flamboyant,
- genteel,
- glorious,
- grand,
- grandiose,
- highfaluting ways,
- imposing,
- impressive,
- jaunty,
- lofty airs,
- look big,
- luxurious,
- magnificent,
- majestic,
- natty,
- neat,
- nifty,
- nobby,
- noble,
- ostentatious,
- palatial,
- peacock,
- peacockery,
- peacockish,
- peacockishness,
- peacocky,
- plush,
- pontificate,
- posh,
- prance,
- pretensions,
- pretentious,
- princely,
- proud,
- put on,
- put on airs,
- put on side,
- recherche,
- ritz it,
- ritzy,
- sharp,
- side,
- sleek,
- smart,
- smug,
- snappy,
- snazzy,
- soigne,
- soignee,
- sophisticated,
- spiffy,
- splashy,
- splendacious,
- splendid,
- splendiferous,
- spruce,
- stalk,
- stately,
- strut,
- strutting,
- style-conscious,
- sumptuous,
- superb,
- superfancy,
- superfine,
- swagger,
- swaggering,
- swanky,
- swash,
- swashbuckle,
- swashbucklering,
- swashbucklery,
- swashbuckling,
- swell,
- swell it,
- swish,
- tony,
- trendy,
- tricksy,
- trig,
- trim,
- vain pretensions,
- vaporing,
- well-dressed,
- well-groomed,
- with-it
- dashing
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- lively and spirited; "a dashing hero" related words >
- agile,
- alert,
- animate,
- animated,
- brave,
- bravura,
- braw,
- breakneck,
- bright,
- chic,
- chichi,
- classy,
- clothes-conscious,
- cosmopolitan,
- dapper,
- daring,
- double-quick,
- dressed to advantage,
- dressed to kill,
- dressy,
- dynamic,
- eagle-winged,
- elegant,
- energetic,
- exclusive,
- exhibitionistic,
- expeditious,
- express,
- exquisite,
- fashionable,
- fast,
- flamboyant,
- flashing,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- fleet,
- flying,
- frilly,
- frothy,
- gallant,
- galloping,
- gay,
- genteel,
- glittering,
- hair-trigger,
- hasty,
- headlong,
- hustling,
- impetuous,
- jaunty,
- jazzy,
- keen,
- light of heel,
- light-footed,
- lively,
- mercurial,
- modish,
- natty,
- neat,
- nifty,
- nimble,
- nimble-footed,
- nobby,
- ostentatious,
- peppy,
- posh,
- precipitate,
- pretentious,
- prompt,
- quick,
- quick as lightning,
- quick as thought,
- rakish,
- rapid,
- recherche,
- reckless,
- ritzy,
- rousing,
- running,
- sharp,
- showy,
- sleek,
- smart,
- smug,
- snappy,
- snazzy,
- soigne,
- soignee,
- sophisticated,
- spanking,
- speedy,
- spiffy,
- spirited,
- splashy,
- splurgy,
- sporty,
- spruce,
- style-conscious,
- stylish,
- swank,
- swanky,
- swell,
- swift,
- swish,
- trendy,
- tricksy,
- trig,
- trim,
- vigorous,
- vivacious,
- well-dressed,
- well-groomed,
- winged,
- with-it
- Gothic,
- adorned,
- arabesque,
- aureate,
- baroque,
- befrilled,
- bizarre,
- blooming,
- bloomy,
- blossoming,
- blowzed,
- blowzy,
- bombastic,
- brain-born,
- burnt,
- busy,
- chichi,
- colored,
- declamatory,
- decorated,
- dream-built,
- efflorescent,
- elaborate,
- elegant,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- euphuistic,
- extravagant,
- fanciful,
- fancy,
- fancy-born,
- fancy-built,
- fancy-woven,
- fantasque,
- fantastic,
- festooned,
- figurative,
- figured,
- fine,
- flamboyant,
- floral,
- floreate,
- florescent,
- floriate,
- floriated,
- floricultural,
- flowered,
- flowering,
- flowery,
- flush,
- flushed,
- frilly,
- full-blooded,
- fussy,
- garden,
- glowing,
- grandiloquent,
- grotesque,
- hectic,
- high-wrought,
- horticultural,
- hortulan,
- in bloom,
- in blossom,
- in flower,
- inflorescent,
- labored,
- luscious,
- lush,
- luxuriant,
- luxurious,
- maggoty,
- magniloquent,
- moresque,
- multiflorous,
- notional,
- ornate,
- ostentatious,
- outlandish,
- overblown,
- overcharged,
- overelaborate,
- overelegant,
- overlabored,
- overloaded,
- overworked,
- overwrought,
- picturesque,
- preposterous,
- pretentious,
- pretty-pretty,
- purple,
- radiciflorous,
- red-complexioned,
- red-faced,
- red-fleshed,
- rhizanthous,
- rich,
- rococo,
- rosy,
- rosy-cheeked,
- rubicund,
- ruddy,
- ruddy-complexioned,
- ruddy-faced,
- sanguine,
- showy,
- sonorous,
- sunburned,
- uniflorous,
- whimsical,
- wild
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- affected,
- aggrandized,
- amplified,
- arabesque,
- ballyhooed,
- baroque,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- busy,
- chichi,
- convoluted,
- declamatory,
- disproportionate,
- distracted,
- edgy,
- elaborate,
- elegant,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- exaggerated,
- excessive,
- exorbitant,
- extravagant,
- extreme,
- fancy,
- fidgety,
- fine,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- florid,
- flowery,
- frantic,
- frenetic,
- frilly,
- fulsome,
- fussy,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- high-wrought,
- highfalutin,
- hyperbolic,
- in a dither,
- in a tizzy,
- in a twitter,
- inflated,
- inkhorn,
- inordinate,
- jittery,
- jumpy,
- labored,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- luxuriant,
- luxurious,
- magnified,
- magniloquent,
- meretricious,
- moresque,
- nervous,
- on edge,
- ornate,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overcome,
- overdone,
- overdrawn,
- overelaborate,
- overelegant,
- overemphasized,
- overemphatic,
- overestimated,
- overexcited,
- overgreat,
- overinvolved,
- overlabored,
- overlarge,
- overmastered,
- overpowered,
- overpraised,
- oversold,
- overstated,
- overstrained,
- overstressed,
- overwhelmed,
- overworked,
- pedantic,
- picturesque,
- pompous,
- pretentious,
- pretty-pretty,
- prodigal,
- profuse,
- puffed,
- rhetorical,
- rich,
- rococo,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- showy,
- sonorous,
- stilted,
- stretched,
- strung out,
- superlative,
- tall,
- tense,
- tortuous,
- touchy,
- touted,
- upset,
- uptight,
- wound up
- gaudy
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- a celebratory feast held annually at one of the colleges in a British university related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- affected,
- bedizened,
- beggarly,
- beneath contempt,
- big-sounding,
- blatant,
- blinding,
- brazen,
- brazenfaced,
- brummagem,
- cheap,
- cheesy,
- chintzy,
- coarse,
- colorful,
- common,
- contemptible,
- convoluted,
- crass,
- crude,
- crummy,
- declamatory,
- despicable,
- earthy,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- extravagant,
- fake,
- flagrant,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flaring,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- florid,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gimcrack,
- gimcracky,
- glaring,
- gorgeous,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- gross,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- honky-tonk,
- inkhorn,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- loud,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- mean,
- meretricious,
- miserable,
- obscene,
- obtrusive,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overbright,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- paltry,
- pathetic,
- pedantic,
- phony,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- pompous,
- poor,
- pretentious,
- raffish,
- raw,
- rhetorical,
- ribald,
- rough,
- rubbishy,
- rude,
- sad,
- screaming,
- scrubby,
- scruffy,
- scummy,
- scurvy,
- scuzzy,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- shabby,
- sham,
- shameless,
- shoddy,
- showy,
- shrieking,
- sonorous,
- sorry,
- spectacular,
- stilted,
- tacky,
- tall,
- tasteless,
- tatty,
- tawdry,
- tinsel,
- tinselly,
- tortuous,
- trashy,
- trumpery,
- two-for-a-cent,
- two-for-a-penny,
- twopenny,
- twopenny-halfpenny,
- valueless,
- vile,
- vulgar,
- worthless,
- wretched
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- affected,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- blatant,
- blazon,
- blinding,
- brandish,
- brandishing,
- brave,
- bravura,
- braw,
- brazen,
- brazenfaced,
- brilliancy,
- chichi,
- colorful,
- convoluted,
- crude,
- daring,
- dash,
- dashing,
- declamatory,
- demonstration,
- display,
- dramatics,
- dressy,
- eclat,
- elevated,
- etalage,
- euphuistic,
- exhibition,
- exhibitionism,
- exhibitionistic,
- extravagant,
- false front,
- fanfaronade,
- figure,
- flagrant,
- flair,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flaring,
- flashing,
- flashy,
- flaunt,
- flourish,
- flourishing,
- frilly,
- frothy,
- fulsome,
- gallant,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- gay,
- glaring,
- glittering,
- gorgeous,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- histrionics,
- inkhorn,
- jaunty,
- jazzy,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- loud,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- manifestation,
- meretricious,
- obtrusive,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overbright,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- pageant,
- pageantry,
- parade,
- pedantic,
- pompous,
- pretentious,
- rakish,
- raw,
- rhetorical,
- screaming,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- shaking,
- sham,
- shameless,
- show,
- showing-off,
- showy,
- shrieking,
- snazzy,
- sonorous,
- spectacle,
- spectacular,
- splash,
- splashy,
- splurge,
- splurgy,
- sporty,
- staginess,
- stilted,
- tall,
- tawdry,
- theatrics,
- tortuous,
- undulation,
- vaunt,
- vulgar,
- wave,
- wave motion,
- waving
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- absurd,
- affected,
- aggrandized,
- ambitious,
- amplified,
- arrogant,
- ballyhooed,
- bedizened,
- beyond belief,
- big,
- big-sounding,
- bizarre,
- bombastic,
- classy,
- cockamamie,
- condescending,
- convoluted,
- crazy,
- declamatory,
- disproportionate,
- domineering,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- exaggerated,
- excessive,
- exorbitant,
- extravagant,
- extreme,
- fancy,
- fantastic,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- flossy,
- foolish,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gassy,
- gaudy,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- grotesque,
- haughty,
- high,
- high-faluting,
- high-flowing,
- high-flying,
- high-headed,
- high-minded,
- high-nosed,
- high-sounding,
- high-swelling,
- high-toned,
- highfalutin,
- highfaluting,
- hoity-toity,
- hyperbolic,
- incredible,
- inflated,
- inkhorn,
- inordinate,
- labyrinthine,
- laughable,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- ludicrous,
- lurid,
- magnified,
- magniloquent,
- meretricious,
- monstrous,
- nonsensical,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- outrageous,
- outre,
- overbearing,
- overdone,
- overdrawn,
- overelaborate,
- overemphasized,
- overemphatic,
- overestimated,
- overgreat,
- overinvolved,
- overlarge,
- overpraised,
- oversold,
- overstated,
- overstressed,
- overwrought,
- patronizing,
- pedantic,
- pompous,
- poppycockish,
- preposterous,
- pretentious,
- prodigal,
- profuse,
- proud,
- puffed,
- purse-proud,
- rhetorical,
- ridiculous,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- showy,
- sonorous,
- stilted,
- stretched,
- stuck-up,
- superior,
- superlative,
- swollen,
- tall,
- tony,
- toplofty,
- tortuous,
- touted,
- uppish,
- uppity,
- upstage,
- vaunting,
- weird,
- wild,
- windy
- abounding,
- abundant,
- adorned,
- affluent,
- all-sufficing,
- ample,
- aplenty,
- arabesque,
- baroque,
- befrilled,
- blooming,
- bottomless,
- bounteous,
- bountiful,
- bursting,
- bursting out,
- busy,
- chichi,
- colored,
- copious,
- creative,
- decorated,
- deluxe,
- dense,
- diffuse,
- effuse,
- elaborate,
- elegant,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- epidemic,
- exhaustless,
- extravagant,
- exuberant,
- fancy,
- fat,
- fecund,
- fertile,
- festooned,
- figurative,
- figured,
- fine,
- flamboyant,
- flashy,
- florid,
- flourishing,
- flowery,
- flush,
- frilly,
- fructiferous,
- fruitful,
- full,
- fussy,
- galore,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- generous,
- gross,
- heavy,
- high-wrought,
- impenetrable,
- in plenty,
- in quantity,
- inexhaustible,
- jungled,
- jungly,
- labored,
- lavish,
- liberal,
- luscious,
- lush,
- luxurious,
- many,
- maximal,
- moresque,
- much,
- numerous,
- opulent,
- ornate,
- ostentatious,
- overcharged,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overelegant,
- overflowing,
- overgrown,
- overlabored,
- overloaded,
- overrun,
- overworked,
- overwrought,
- palatial,
- picturesque,
- plenitudinous,
- plenteous,
- plentiful,
- plenty,
- plush,
- pregnant,
- pretty-pretty,
- prevailing,
- prevalent,
- prodigal,
- productive,
- profuse,
- profusive,
- proliferous,
- prolific,
- purple,
- rampant,
- rank,
- replete,
- rich,
- rife,
- riotous,
- rococo,
- running over,
- seminal,
- showy,
- sumptuous,
- superabundant,
- swarming,
- teeming,
- thick,
- thriving,
- uberous,
- unweeded,
- wealthy,
- weed-choked,
- weed-ridden,
- weedy,
- well-found,
- well-furnished,
- well-provided,
- well-stocked,
- wholesale
- mummery
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- meaningless ceremonies and flattery related words >
- Pecksniffery,
- Tartuffery,
- Tartuffism,
- abracadabra,
- acting,
- affectation,
- baccalaureate service,
- buffoonery,
- business,
- camouflage,
- cant,
- celebration,
- ceremonial,
- ceremony,
- characterization,
- commencement,
- convocation,
- disguise,
- domino,
- empty formality,
- empty gesture,
- exercise,
- exercises,
- false colors,
- false face,
- false front,
- false piety,
- falseness,
- formal,
- formality,
- function,
- gag,
- goody-goodiness,
- graduation,
- graduation exercises,
- ham,
- hammy acting,
- hocus-pocus,
- hoke,
- hokum,
- hypocrisy,
- hypocriticalness,
- impersonation,
- inaugural,
- inauguration,
- incognito,
- initiation,
- insincerity,
- lip service,
- liturgy,
- mask,
- masque,
- masquerade,
- mealymouthedness,
- mimesis,
- mimicking,
- mimicry,
- miming,
- mouthing,
- mumbo-jumbo,
- observance,
- office,
- oiliness,
- ostentatious devotion,
- overacting,
- pantomiming,
- patter,
- performance,
- performing,
- personation,
- pharisaicalness,
- pharisaism,
- pietism,
- pietisticalness,
- piety,
- piousness,
- playacting,
- playing,
- portrayal,
- projection,
- protective coloration,
- religionism,
- religiosity,
- religious ceremony,
- representation,
- rite,
- rite de passage,
- rite of passage,
- ritual,
- sanctimoniousness,
- sanctimony,
- self-righteousness,
- service,
- slapstick,
- smoke screen,
- snivel,
- snuffle,
- snuffling,
- soft soap,
- solemnity,
- solemnization,
- stage business,
- stage directions,
- stage presence,
- stunt,
- sweet talk,
- taking a role,
- tokenism,
- unction,
- unctuousness,
- visor,
- vizard,
- vizard mask
- meretricious
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- like or relating to a prostitute; "meretricious relationships" related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- affected,
- apparent,
- bedizened,
- beggarly,
- beneath contempt,
- big-sounding,
- blatant,
- brazen,
- brazenfaced,
- cheap,
- cheesy,
- chintzy,
- coarse,
- colorable,
- colored,
- colorful,
- common,
- contemptible,
- convoluted,
- crass,
- crude,
- crummy,
- deceptive,
- declamatory,
- delusive,
- delusory,
- despicable,
- earthy,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- extravagant,
- fallen,
- flagrant,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flaring,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- gilded,
- gimcracky,
- glaring,
- gorgeous,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- gross,
- harlot,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- hustling,
- inkhorn,
- insincere,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- loud,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- mean,
- miserable,
- misleading,
- obscene,
- obtrusive,
- on the,
- on the town,
- orotund,
- ostensible,
- ostentatious,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- paltry,
- pathetic,
- pave,
- pedantic,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- plausible,
- pompous,
- poor,
- pretentious,
- prostitute,
- prostituted,
- raw,
- rhetorical,
- ribald,
- rough,
- rubbishy,
- rude,
- sad,
- scarlet,
- screaming,
- scrubby,
- scruffy,
- scummy,
- scurvy,
- scuzzy,
- seeming,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- shabby,
- shameless,
- shoddy,
- showy,
- sonorous,
- sorry,
- specious,
- spectacular,
- spurious,
- stilted,
- streetwalking,
- tall,
- tawdry,
- tinsel,
- tortuous,
- trashy,
- trumpery,
- two-for-a-cent,
- two-for-a-penny,
- twopenny,
- twopenny-halfpenny,
- valueless,
- vile,
- vulgar,
- whorish,
- worthless,
- wretched
- soft soap
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- a soft (or liquid) soap made from vegetable oils; used in certain skin diseases related words >
- Pecksniffery,
- Tartuffery,
- Tartuffism,
- adulation,
- advocate,
- allurement,
- be hypocritical,
- blandish,
- blandishment,
- blandness,
- blarney,
- bunkum,
- butter,
- butter up,
- cajole,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- call on,
- call upon,
- cant,
- coax,
- coaxing,
- compliment,
- conning,
- empty gesture,
- engagement,
- enlistment,
- exhort,
- exhortation,
- eyewash,
- fair words,
- false piety,
- fawning,
- flattery,
- fulsomeness,
- get around,
- give lip service,
- give mouth honor,
- glibness,
- grease,
- high-pressure,
- honey,
- honeyed phrases,
- honeyed words,
- hortation,
- hypocrisy,
- hypocriticalness,
- importune,
- incense,
- inducement,
- insist,
- insist upon,
- jawbone,
- jawboning,
- jolly,
- kid along,
- lay it on,
- lip service,
- lobby,
- lobbying,
- mealymouthedness,
- mouth,
- mouthing,
- mummery,
- nag,
- oil,
- oiliness,
- ostentatious devotion,
- overdo it,
- palaver,
- persuasion,
- pharisaism,
- play the hypocrite,
- play up to,
- plead with,
- praise,
- preaching,
- preachment,
- press,
- pressure,
- pretty lies,
- push,
- recommend,
- reek of piety,
- religiosity,
- render lip service,
- sales talk,
- salesmanship,
- sanctimoniousness,
- sanctimony,
- selling,
- smoothness,
- smugness,
- snivel,
- snow job,
- snuffle,
- snuffling,
- soap,
- soft words,
- soften up,
- solicitation,
- string along,
- stroke,
- suasion,
- suaveness,
- suavity,
- sweet nothings,
- sweet talk,
- sweet words,
- sweet-talk,
- sycophancy,
- tokenism,
- unctuousness,
- urge,
- wheedle,
- wheedling,
- work on,
- working on
- tortuous
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- not straightforward; "his tortuous reasoning"
- marked by repeated turns and bends; "a tortuous road up the mountain"; "winding roads are full of surprises"; "had to steer the car down a twisty track" related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- affected,
- ambagious,
- ambiguous,
- anamorphous,
- anfractuous,
- askew,
- asymmetric,
- bedizened,
- bent,
- big-sounding,
- billowing,
- billowy,
- bowed,
- circuitous,
- circumlocutory,
- cockeyed,
- complicated,
- contorted,
- convoluted,
- convolutional,
- cranky,
- crazy,
- crooked,
- crumpled,
- crunched,
- curled,
- curling,
- curvaceous,
- curvate,
- curvated,
- curve,
- curved,
- curvesome,
- curviform,
- curvilineal,
- curvilinear,
- curving,
- curvy,
- deceptive,
- declamatory,
- deviative,
- devious,
- distorted,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- flexuose,
- flexuous,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- geosynclinal,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- incurvate,
- incurvated,
- incurved,
- incurving,
- indirect,
- inkhorn,
- intricate,
- involute,
- involuted,
- involutional,
- involved,
- irregular,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- lopsided,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- mazy,
- meandering,
- meandrous,
- meretricious,
- misleading,
- nonsymmetric,
- one-sided,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- pedantic,
- pompous,
- pretentious,
- recurvate,
- recurvated,
- recurved,
- recurving,
- rhetorical,
- rivose,
- rivulose,
- roundabout,
- ruffled,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- serpentine,
- showy,
- sinuate,
- sinuose,
- sinuous,
- snaky,
- sonorous,
- sprung,
- stilted,
- tall,
- torsional,
- tortile,
- tricky,
- turning,
- twisted,
- twisting,
- twisty,
- undulant,
- unstraightforward,
- unsymmetric,
- wandering,
- warped,
- wavy,
- whorled,
- winding,
- wreathlike,
- wreathy,
- zigzag
- theatrical
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- suited to or characteristic of the stage or theater; "a theatrical pose"; "one of the most theatrical figures in public life"
- of or relating to the theater related words >
- Roscius,
- Thespian art,
- actor,
- actor-proof,
- actress,
- affected,
- all-star,
- amateur theatricals,
- antagonist,
- artificial,
- bad guy,
- ballet,
- balletic,
- barnstormer,
- camp,
- campy,
- character,
- character actor,
- character man,
- character woman,
- child actor,
- cinematic,
- cinematographic,
- diseur,
- diseuse,
- dramatic,
- dramatic art,
- dramatic form,
- dramatic irony,
- dramatic stroke,
- dramatic structure,
- dramatical,
- dramaticism,
- dramatics,
- dramatism,
- dramatizer,
- dramaturgic,
- dramaturgy,
- emotionalistic,
- emotive,
- exaggerated,
- extravagant,
- fake,
- false,
- feeder,
- film,
- filmic,
- foil,
- forced,
- grandstand,
- ham,
- hammy,
- heavy,
- histrio,
- histrion,
- histrionic,
- histrionics,
- histrionism,
- hysteric,
- ingenue,
- insincere,
- juvenile,
- la-di-da,
- legitimate,
- maniere,
- mannered,
- matinee idol,
- melodramatic,
- melodramatics,
- milked,
- mime,
- mimer,
- mimic,
- monodramatic,
- monologist,
- movie,
- mummer,
- nonrational,
- operatic,
- ostentatious,
- overacted,
- overacting,
- overdone,
- overemotional,
- overplayed,
- overwrought,
- pantomime,
- pantomimist,
- play construction,
- playactor,
- player,
- pretentious,
- protean actor,
- reciter,
- repertory,
- scenic,
- sensational,
- sensationalism,
- sensationalistic,
- showy,
- soubrette,
- spectacular,
- stage,
- stage performer,
- stage player,
- stagelike,
- stageworthy,
- staginess,
- stagy,
- starstruck,
- stellar,
- stooge,
- straight man,
- stroller,
- strolling player,
- theaterlike,
- theatric,
- theatricalism,
- theatricality,
- theatricals,
- theatricism,
- theatrics,
- thespian,
- thrown away,
- trouper,
- underacted,
- underplayed,
- unnatural,
- unreasoning,
- utility man,
- vaudevillian,
- villain
- pompous
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- characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- Latinate,
- affected,
- arrogant,
- assured,
- aureate,
- awkward,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- bloated,
- boastful,
- bombastic,
- braggart,
- ceremonial,
- ceremonious,
- cocksure,
- conceited,
- confident,
- conventional,
- convinced,
- convoluted,
- cramped,
- cumbrous,
- decided,
- declamatory,
- decorous,
- determined,
- egotistical,
- elephantine,
- elevated,
- embroidered,
- euphuistic,
- exhibitionist,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flatulent,
- flaunting,
- flossy,
- flowery,
- forced,
- formal,
- fulsome,
- fustian,
- garish,
- gassy,
- gaudy,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- guinde,
- halting,
- haughty,
- heavy,
- hieratic,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-hat,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- hoity-toity,
- hubristic,
- imperious,
- important,
- inflated,
- inkhorn,
- labored,
- labyrinthine,
- leaden,
- lexiphanic,
- liturgic,
- lofty,
- lumbering,
- lurid,
- magisterial,
- magniloquent,
- meretricious,
- narcissistic,
- ornate,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overbearing,
- overblown,
- overconfident,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- oversure,
- overweening,
- overwrought,
- pedantic,
- persuaded,
- poised,
- ponderous,
- pontifical,
- positive,
- presumptuous,
- pretentious,
- proud,
- puffy,
- reassured,
- rhetorical,
- ritual,
- ritualistic,
- sacerdotal,
- secure,
- self-assured,
- self-centered,
- self-conceited,
- self-confident,
- self-important,
- self-reliant,
- selfish,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- sesquipedalian,
- showy,
- snobbish,
- snooty,
- snotty,
- solemn,
- sonorous,
- stately,
- stiff,
- stilted,
- stuck-up,
- stuffy,
- sure,
- swollen,
- tall,
- tortuous,
- tumid,
- turgid,
- unafraid,
- undoubting,
- unfaltering,
- unhesitating,
- unwavering,
- unwieldy,
- uppity,
- vain,
- vainglorious,
- well-mannered,
- windy
- Pecksniffery,
- Tartuffery,
- Tartuffism,
- adulation,
- advocate,
- allurement,
- artful endearments,
- be hypocritical,
- bill and coo,
- blandish,
- blandishment,
- blandishments,
- blandness,
- blarney,
- bunkum,
- butter,
- cajole,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- call on,
- call upon,
- cant,
- caress,
- coax,
- coaxing,
- compliment,
- conning,
- copulate,
- dally,
- empty gesture,
- endearment,
- engagement,
- enlistment,
- exhort,
- exhortation,
- eyewash,
- fair words,
- false piety,
- fawning,
- flattery,
- fulsomeness,
- give lip service,
- give mouth honor,
- glibness,
- grease,
- high-pressure,
- honeyed phrases,
- honeyed words,
- hortation,
- hypocrisy,
- hypocriticalness,
- importune,
- incense,
- inducement,
- insist,
- insist upon,
- jawbone,
- jawboning,
- lip service,
- lobby,
- lobbying,
- lollygag,
- make love,
- make out,
- mealymouthedness,
- mouth,
- mouthing,
- mummery,
- nag,
- neck,
- oil,
- oiliness,
- ostentatious devotion,
- palaver,
- pat,
- persuasion,
- pet,
- pharisaism,
- play the hypocrite,
- plead with,
- praise,
- preaching,
- preachment,
- press,
- pressure,
- pretty lies,
- push,
- recommend,
- reek of piety,
- religiosity,
- render lip service,
- sales talk,
- salesmanship,
- sanctimoniousness,
- sanctimony,
- selling,
- smooch,
- smoothness,
- smugness,
- snivel,
- snow job,
- snuffle,
- snuffling,
- soap,
- soft soap,
- soft words,
- soft-soap,
- solicitation,
- spoon,
- suasion,
- suaveness,
- suavity,
- sweet nothings,
- sweet words,
- sycophancy,
- tokenism,
- toy,
- trifle,
- unctuousness,
- urge,
- wanton,
- wheedle,
- wheedling,
- whisper sweet nothings,
- work on,
- working on
- 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
- sententious
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- abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing; "too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation"- Kathleen Barnes related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- Spartan,
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- admonitory,
- advisory,
- affected,
- allegorical,
- aphoristic,
- aposiopestic,
- associational,
- axiomatic,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- brief,
- brusque,
- cautionary,
- clipped,
- close,
- compact,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- concise,
- condensed,
- connotational,
- connotative,
- consultative,
- consultatory,
- contracted,
- convoluted,
- crisp,
- curt,
- cut,
- declamatory,
- definable,
- denotational,
- denotative,
- didactic,
- directive,
- docked,
- elevated,
- elliptic,
- eloquent,
- epigrammatic,
- euphuistic,
- exhortative,
- exhortatory,
- expostulative,
- expostulatory,
- expressive,
- extended,
- extensional,
- facund,
- figurative,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- formulaic,
- formulistic,
- full of meaning,
- full of point,
- full of substance,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- gnomic,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- hortative,
- hortatory,
- indicative,
- inkhorn,
- instructive,
- intelligible,
- intensional,
- interpretable,
- labyrinthine,
- laconic,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- meaning,
- meaningful,
- meaty,
- meretricious,
- metaphorical,
- monitorial,
- monitory,
- moralistic,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- pedantic,
- piquant,
- pithy,
- platitudinous,
- pointed,
- pompous,
- preachy,
- pregnant,
- pretentious,
- proverbial,
- pruned,
- pungent,
- readable,
- recommendatory,
- referential,
- remonstrant,
- remonstrative,
- remonstratory,
- reserved,
- rhetorical,
- rich,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- shortened,
- showy,
- significant,
- significative,
- sonorous,
- stilted,
- substantial,
- succinct,
- suggestive,
- summary,
- symbolic,
- synopsized,
- taciturn,
- tall,
- terse,
- tight,
- to the point,
- tortuous,
- transferred,
- truncated,
- warning
- tall
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- a garment size for a tall person
- great in vertical dimension; high in stature; "tall people"; "tall buildings"; "tall trees"; "tall ships" related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- a bit thick,
- a bit thin,
- a mile long,
- absurd,
- affected,
- altitudinous,
- bedizened,
- beyond belief,
- big,
- big-sounding,
- bombastic,
- bumper,
- colossal,
- considerable,
- convoluted,
- declamatory,
- doubtable,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- dubitable,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- exaggerated,
- extensive,
- extravagant,
- far-flung,
- far-reaching,
- fargoing,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- fulsome,
- gangling,
- gangly,
- garish,
- gassy,
- gaudy,
- giant,
- gigantic,
- goodly,
- grand,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- great,
- hard of belief,
- hard to believe,
- healthy,
- high,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-reaching,
- high-sounding,
- high-swelling,
- highfalutin,
- highfaluting,
- huge,
- implausible,
- improbable,
- inconceivable,
- incredible,
- inflated,
- inkhorn,
- interminable,
- labyrinthine,
- lank,
- lanky,
- large,
- large-scale,
- leggy,
- lengthy,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- long,
- long-legged,
- longish,
- longsome,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- man-sized,
- meretricious,
- no end of,
- not deserving belief,
- numerous,
- open to doubt,
- open to suspicion,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- outrageous,
- overblown,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- passing belief,
- pedantic,
- pompous,
- preposterous,
- pretentious,
- problematic,
- questionable,
- rangy,
- rhetorical,
- ridiculous,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- sesquipedal,
- sesquipedalian,
- showy,
- sizable,
- sky-high,
- skyscraping,
- soaring,
- sonorous,
- staggering belief,
- statuesque,
- steep,
- stilted,
- substantial,
- suspect,
- suspicious,
- swollen,
- thick,
- thin,
- tidy,
- tortuous,
- towering,
- unbelievable,
- unconvincing,
- unearthly,
- ungodly,
- unimaginable,
- unthinkable,
- unworthy of belief,
- windy,
- without end
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