Related Words:
- flamboyant
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- 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
- distraught
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- deeply agitated especially from emotion; "distraught with grief" related words >
- abashed,
- abnormal,
- abroad,
- addled,
- adrift,
- agitated,
- astray,
- at sea,
- batty,
- bereft of reason,
- berserk,
- bewildered,
- bothered,
- brainsick,
- clueless,
- concerned,
- confused,
- crackbrained,
- cracked,
- crazed,
- crazy,
- daft,
- delirious,
- deluded,
- demented,
- deprived of reason,
- deranged,
- discomposed,
- disconcerted,
- dismayed,
- disoriented,
- distracted,
- distrait,
- distressed,
- disturbed,
- embarrassed,
- excited,
- feverish,
- flighty,
- flustered,
- frantic,
- frenetic,
- frenzied,
- guessing,
- hallucinated,
- harassed,
- hysterical,
- in a fix,
- in a maze,
- in a pickle,
- in a scrape,
- in a stew,
- insane,
- irrational,
- loco,
- lost,
- lunatic,
- mad,
- maddened,
- manic,
- mazed,
- mental,
- mentally deficient,
- meshuggah,
- moon-struck,
- muddled,
- nervous,
- non compos,
- non compos mentis,
- nonplussed,
- not all there,
- not right,
- nuts,
- odd,
- of unsound mind,
- off,
- off the track,
- overwrought,
- perturbed,
- psycho,
- put-out,
- queer,
- rambling,
- reasonless,
- senseless,
- sick,
- stark-mad,
- stark-staring mad,
- strange,
- tetched,
- tormented,
- touched,
- troubled,
- turned around,
- unbalanced,
- unhinged,
- unsane,
- unsettled,
- unsound,
- upset,
- wandering,
- wild,
- without a clue,
- witless,
- worked up,
- wrought up
- 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
- frantic
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- excessively agitated; transported with rage or other violent emotion; "frantic with anger and frustration"; "frenetic screams followed the accident"; "a frenzied look in his eye" related words >
- Dionysiac,
- abandoned,
- agitated,
- amok,
- anarchic,
- angry,
- at fever pitch,
- bacchic,
- bellowing,
- berserk,
- blustering,
- blusterous,
- blustery,
- carried away,
- chaotic,
- confused,
- corybantic,
- delirious,
- demoniac,
- desperate,
- disconcerted,
- distracted,
- distrait,
- distraught,
- ecstatic,
- enraptured,
- excitable,
- excited,
- fanatical,
- febrile,
- feral,
- ferocious,
- feverish,
- fierce,
- frenetic,
- frenzied,
- fulminating,
- furious,
- haggard,
- hectic,
- hellish,
- hog-wild,
- howling,
- hyperactive,
- hyperkinetic,
- hysteric,
- hysterical,
- in a dither,
- in a tizzy,
- in a transport,
- in hysterics,
- infatuated,
- infuriate,
- insane,
- insensate,
- intoxicated,
- intrusive,
- like one possessed,
- mad,
- madding,
- maenadic,
- maniac,
- maniacal,
- mindless,
- nervous,
- officious,
- orgasmic,
- orgastic,
- orgiastic,
- overanxious,
- overdesirous,
- overeager,
- overenthusiastic,
- overwrought,
- overzealous,
- pandemoniac,
- perfervid,
- perturbed,
- possessed,
- rabid,
- raging,
- rambling,
- ramping,
- ranting,
- ravening,
- raving,
- raving mad,
- ravished,
- rip-roaring,
- roaring,
- running mad,
- running wild,
- stark-raving mad,
- storming,
- stormy,
- tempestuous,
- transported,
- troublous,
- tumultuous,
- turbulent,
- ultrazealous,
- uncontrollable,
- uproarious,
- upset,
- violent,
- wandering,
- wild,
- wild-eyed,
- wild-looking,
- wrought up
- 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
- a bit much,
- abandoned,
- aggrandized,
- amplified,
- ballyhooed,
- bibulous,
- bigoted,
- boundless,
- crapulent,
- crapulous,
- cutthroat,
- disproportionate,
- dizzy,
- egregious,
- enormous,
- exacting,
- exaggerated,
- excessive,
- exorbitant,
- extortionate,
- extra,
- extravagant,
- extreme,
- extremist,
- fabulous,
- fanatic,
- fancy,
- gigantic,
- gluttonous,
- gouging,
- grandiloquent,
- gratuitous,
- grossly overpriced,
- haggard,
- high,
- high-flown,
- hyperbolic,
- hypertrophied,
- immoderate,
- incontinent,
- indulgent,
- inflated,
- inflationary,
- intemperate,
- irrational,
- magnified,
- monstrous,
- out of bounds,
- out of sight,
- outrageous,
- overbig,
- overdeveloped,
- overdone,
- overdrawn,
- overemphasized,
- overemphatic,
- overenthusiastic,
- overestimated,
- overgreat,
- overgrown,
- overindulgent,
- overindulging,
- overlarge,
- overmuch,
- overpraised,
- overpriced,
- overreligious,
- oversold,
- overstated,
- overstressed,
- overweening,
- overwrought,
- overzealous,
- perfervid,
- preposterous,
- prodigal,
- profuse,
- prohibitive,
- puffed,
- rabid,
- self-indulgent,
- skyrocketing,
- spiraling,
- steep,
- stiff,
- stretched,
- supererogatory,
- superfluous,
- superlative,
- surplus,
- swinish,
- too much,
- touted,
- towering,
- ultrazealous,
- unbridled,
- uncalled-for,
- unconscionable,
- unconstrained,
- uncontrolled,
- undisciplined,
- undue,
- unfrugal,
- unlimited,
- unmeasurable,
- unmeasured,
- unreasonable,
- unrestrained,
- untempered,
- unthrifty,
- unwarranted,
- usurious,
- wanton,
- wild-eyed,
- wild-looking,
- zealotic
- 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
- exorbitant
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- greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation; "exorbitant rent"; "extortionate prices"; "spends an outrageous amount on entertainment"; "usurious interest rate"; "unconscionable spending" related words >
- a bit much,
- abandoned,
- acute,
- aggrandized,
- amplified,
- ballyhooed,
- boundless,
- clamant,
- clamorous,
- crying,
- cutthroat,
- cutting,
- demanding,
- disproportionate,
- dizzy,
- draining,
- drastic,
- egregious,
- enormous,
- exacting,
- exaggerated,
- excessive,
- exigent,
- extortionate,
- extraordinary,
- extravagant,
- extreme,
- fabulous,
- fancy,
- fierce,
- furious,
- gigantic,
- gluttonous,
- gouging,
- grandiloquent,
- grasping,
- great,
- grossly overpriced,
- high,
- high-flown,
- hyperbolic,
- hypertrophied,
- immoderate,
- importunate,
- incontinent,
- inflated,
- inflationary,
- inordinate,
- insistent,
- instant,
- intemperate,
- intense,
- keen,
- loud,
- magnified,
- monstrous,
- out of bounds,
- out of sight,
- outrageous,
- overbig,
- overboard,
- overdeveloped,
- overdone,
- overdrawn,
- overemphasized,
- overemphatic,
- overestimated,
- overgreat,
- overgrown,
- overlarge,
- overmuch,
- overpraised,
- overpriced,
- oversold,
- overstated,
- overstressed,
- overweening,
- overwrought,
- persistent,
- pertinacious,
- piercing,
- preposterous,
- pressing,
- prodigal,
- profuse,
- prohibitive,
- puffed,
- rigorous,
- rough,
- severe,
- sharp,
- skyrocketing,
- spiraling,
- splitting,
- steep,
- stiff,
- stretched,
- superlative,
- taxing,
- too much,
- tough,
- touted,
- towering,
- unbridled,
- unconscionable,
- undue,
- unjustifiable,
- unjustified,
- unmeasurable,
- unreasonable,
- unrestrained,
- unwarranted,
- urgent,
- usurious,
- vehement,
- venomous,
- violent,
- virulent
- 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
- afloat,
- agape,
- aghast,
- agog,
- all agog,
- all up with,
- amazed,
- astonished,
- astounded,
- at flood,
- at gaze,
- awash,
- awed,
- awestruck,
- beat,
- beaten,
- beguiled,
- bested,
- bewildered,
- bewitched,
- breathless,
- broken-down,
- brokenhearted,
- captivated,
- confounded,
- crushed,
- cut up,
- defeated,
- deluged,
- desolated,
- discomfited,
- dismayed,
- done for,
- done in,
- down,
- drowned,
- dumbfounded,
- dumbstruck,
- enchanted,
- engulfed,
- enraptured,
- enravished,
- enthralled,
- entranced,
- fallen,
- fascinated,
- fixed,
- flabbergasted,
- flooded,
- floored,
- gaping,
- gauping,
- gazing,
- heart-stricken,
- heart-struck,
- heartbroken,
- hors de combat,
- hypnotized,
- in awe,
- in awe of,
- in spate,
- inflood,
- inundated,
- lambasted,
- lathered,
- licked,
- lost in wonder,
- marveling,
- mesmerized,
- on the skids,
- open-eyed,
- openmouthed,
- outdone,
- overborne,
- overcome,
- overexcited,
- overmastered,
- overmatched,
- overpowered,
- overridden,
- overthrown,
- overturned,
- overwrought,
- panicked,
- popeyed,
- put to rout,
- puzzled,
- rapt in wonder,
- routed,
- ruined,
- scattered,
- settled,
- shocked,
- silenced,
- skinned,
- skinned alive,
- spellbound,
- staggered,
- stampeded,
- staring,
- stricken,
- stupefied,
- surprised,
- swamped,
- swept,
- thunderstruck,
- trimmed,
- trounced,
- under a charm,
- undone,
- upset,
- washed,
- water-washed,
- whelmed,
- whipped,
- wide-eyed,
- wonder-struck,
- wondering,
- worsted
- 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
- excessive
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- beyond normal limits; "excessive charges"; "a book of inordinate length"; "his dress stops just short of undue elegance"; "unreasonable demands"
- unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings; "extravagant praise"; "exuberant compliments"; "overweening ambition"; "overweening greed" related words >
- a bit much,
- abandoned,
- acute,
- aggrandized,
- amplified,
- ballyhooed,
- bibulous,
- boundless,
- cloying,
- crapulent,
- crapulous,
- cutthroat,
- cutting,
- disgusting,
- disproportionate,
- dissipated,
- dizzy,
- drastic,
- egregious,
- enormous,
- exacting,
- exaggerated,
- excess,
- exorbitant,
- extortionate,
- extravagant,
- extreme,
- fabulous,
- fancy,
- fierce,
- fulsome,
- furious,
- gigantic,
- gluttonous,
- gouging,
- grandiloquent,
- great,
- grossly overpriced,
- high,
- high-flown,
- hyperbolic,
- hypertrophied,
- immoderate,
- improper,
- inappropriate,
- incontinent,
- indulgent,
- inflated,
- inflationary,
- inordinate,
- intemperate,
- intense,
- keen,
- limitless,
- magnified,
- monstrous,
- nauseating,
- out of bounds,
- out of sight,
- outrageous,
- over,
- overbig,
- overboard,
- overdeveloped,
- overdone,
- overdrawn,
- overemphasized,
- overemphatic,
- overestimated,
- overgreat,
- overgrown,
- overindulgent,
- overindulging,
- overlarge,
- overmuch,
- overpraised,
- overpriced,
- oversold,
- overstated,
- overstressed,
- overweening,
- overwrought,
- piercing,
- preposterous,
- prodigal,
- profuse,
- prohibitive,
- puffed,
- rigorous,
- rough,
- self-indulgent,
- severe,
- sharp,
- sky-high,
- skyrocketing,
- spiraling,
- splitting,
- steep,
- stiff,
- stretched,
- super,
- superfluous,
- superlative,
- supernatural,
- swinish,
- too much,
- tough,
- touted,
- towering,
- unbounded,
- unbridled,
- unconscionable,
- unconstrained,
- uncontrolled,
- undisciplined,
- undue,
- unfrugal,
- unjustifiable,
- unlimited,
- unmeasurable,
- unmeasured,
- unreasonable,
- unrestrained,
- untempered,
- unthrifty,
- unwarranted,
- usurious,
- vehement,
- venomous,
- violent,
- virulent
- 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
- delirious
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- marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion; "a crowd of delirious baseball fans"; "something frantic in their gaiety"; "a mad whirl of pleasure"
- experiencing delirium related words >
- abandoned,
- ablaze,
- afire,
- all agog,
- amok,
- ardent,
- at fever pitch,
- babbling,
- bellowing,
- berserk,
- bewildered,
- boiling over,
- breathless,
- burning,
- carried away,
- confused,
- cordial,
- corybantic,
- crazed,
- crazy,
- delighted,
- demented,
- demoniac,
- deranged,
- disarranged,
- disordered,
- distracted,
- disturbed,
- dizzy,
- drunk,
- ecstatic,
- enraptured,
- enthused,
- enthusiastic,
- excited,
- exuberant,
- fanatical,
- febrile,
- feral,
- ferocious,
- fervent,
- fervid,
- fevered,
- feverish,
- feverous,
- fierce,
- fiery,
- flaming,
- flushed,
- frantic,
- frenetic,
- frenzied,
- fulminating,
- furious,
- giddy,
- glowing,
- haggard,
- hearty,
- heated,
- hectic,
- hog-wild,
- hot,
- howling,
- hyperpyretic,
- hyperthermic,
- hysteric,
- hysterical,
- impassioned,
- in a fever,
- in a transport,
- in hysterics,
- incoherent,
- infatuated,
- inflamed,
- insane,
- intense,
- intoxicated,
- irrational,
- keen,
- lightheaded,
- lively,
- lunatic,
- mad,
- madding,
- maniac,
- off,
- on fire,
- orgasmic,
- orgiastic,
- overanxious,
- overdesirous,
- overeager,
- overenthusiastic,
- overexcited,
- overwrought,
- overzealous,
- passionate,
- perfervid,
- possessed,
- pyretic,
- rabid,
- raging,
- rambling,
- ramping,
- ranting,
- rapturous,
- raving,
- ravished,
- red-hot,
- roaring,
- running mad,
- steaming,
- steamy,
- storming,
- thrilled,
- transported,
- ultrazealous,
- uncontrollable,
- unhinged,
- unreasonable,
- unrestrained,
- unsettled,
- vigorous,
- violent,
- wandering,
- warm,
- wild,
- wild-eyed,
- wild-looking,
- zealous
- 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
- 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
- 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
- excited
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- in an aroused state related words >
- ablaze,
- active,
- afire,
- aflame,
- agitated,
- agog,
- animated,
- antsy,
- antsy-pantsy,
- anxious,
- aquiver,
- ardent,
- aroused,
- atingle,
- attracted,
- atwitter,
- boiling over,
- breathless,
- brisk,
- burning,
- bursting,
- carried away,
- cathectic,
- chafing,
- concerned,
- cordial,
- curious,
- delighted,
- delirious,
- discomfited,
- discomposed,
- disconcerted,
- disquieted,
- disturbed,
- drunk,
- eager,
- ebullient,
- edgy,
- effervescent,
- elated,
- electrified,
- energetic,
- energized,
- enthusiastic,
- exhilarated,
- exuberant,
- fascinated,
- febrile,
- fervent,
- fervid,
- fevered,
- feverish,
- fidgety,
- fiery,
- fired,
- flaming,
- flurried,
- flushed,
- flustered,
- frantic,
- frenetic,
- frenzied,
- fretful,
- fretting,
- galvanized,
- glowing,
- hasty,
- hearty,
- heated,
- high,
- hopped up,
- hopped-up,
- hot,
- hysterical,
- impassioned,
- impatient,
- impetuous,
- in a lather,
- in a stew,
- in a sweat,
- inflamed,
- intense,
- interested,
- intoxicated,
- itchy,
- jittery,
- jumpy,
- keen,
- keen on,
- keyed up,
- lathered up,
- lively,
- manic,
- moved,
- nervous,
- nervy,
- on edge,
- on fire,
- overwrought,
- passionate,
- perturbed,
- pink,
- piqued,
- ready to burst,
- red-hot,
- restive,
- restless,
- roused,
- ruffled,
- shaken,
- shaken up,
- spirited,
- squirming,
- squirmy,
- steamed up,
- steaming,
- steamy,
- stimulated,
- stirred,
- stirred up,
- tantalized,
- thrilled,
- tickled,
- tingling,
- tingly,
- titillated,
- troubled,
- troublous,
- turbulent,
- turned on,
- turned-on,
- uneasy,
- unpatient,
- unpeaceful,
- unquiet,
- unrestrained,
- upset,
- vehement,
- vigorous,
- warm,
- whipped up,
- worked up,
- wound up,
- wrought up,
- yeasty,
- zealous
- pompous
collapse
- 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
- feverish
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- marked by intense agitation or emotion; "worked at a feverish pace"
- having or affected by a fever related words >
- ablaze,
- afire,
- agitated,
- ardent,
- at fever pitch,
- baking,
- blistering,
- boiling,
- boiling over,
- breathless,
- broiling,
- burning,
- burning hot,
- burning with excitement,
- canicular,
- cordial,
- cursory,
- delirious,
- discomposed,
- disquieted,
- disturbed,
- drunk,
- ebullient,
- enthusiastic,
- excited,
- expeditious,
- exuberant,
- fanatical,
- febrile,
- fervent,
- fervid,
- festinate,
- fevered,
- feverous,
- fidgety,
- fiery,
- flaming,
- flurried,
- flushed,
- flustered,
- flying,
- frantic,
- frenetic,
- frenzied,
- furious,
- glowing,
- grilling,
- hasty,
- hearty,
- heated,
- hectic,
- het up,
- high-strung,
- hot,
- hot as fire,
- hot as hell,
- hot-blooded,
- hurried,
- hyperpyretic,
- hyperthermic,
- hysteric,
- immediate,
- impassioned,
- in a fever,
- in rut,
- infatuated,
- inflamed,
- insane,
- instant,
- intense,
- intoxicated,
- jittery,
- jumpy,
- keen,
- keyed up,
- last-minute,
- like a furnace,
- like an oven,
- lively,
- nervous,
- nervy,
- on fire,
- on the spot,
- overanxious,
- overdesirous,
- overeager,
- overenthusiastic,
- overheated,
- overwarm,
- overwrought,
- overzealous,
- parching,
- passing,
- passionate,
- perfervid,
- perturbed,
- piping hot,
- prompt,
- pyretic,
- quick,
- red-hot,
- restless,
- roasting,
- ruffled,
- scalding,
- scorching,
- searing,
- seething,
- sexually excited,
- shaken,
- shaken up,
- simmering,
- sizzling hot,
- slap-bang,
- slapdash,
- smoking hot,
- snap,
- speedy,
- steaming,
- steamy,
- stirred up,
- sudorific,
- superficial,
- sweating,
- sweaty,
- sweltering,
- sweltry,
- swift,
- toasting,
- torrid,
- troubled,
- troublous,
- turbulent,
- ultrazealous,
- uneasy,
- unpeaceful,
- unquiet,
- unrestrained,
- upset,
- urgent,
- vigorous,
- warm,
- white-hot,
- wild,
- zealous
- sententious
collapse
- 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
collapse
- 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
- overcome
collapse
- get on top of; deal with successfully; "He overcame his shyness" related words >
- affected,
- all up with,
- beat,
- beaten,
- best,
- bested,
- better,
- blind,
- blind drunk,
- blotto,
- break,
- broken-down,
- brokenhearted,
- cap,
- confounded,
- conquer,
- crush,
- crushed,
- cut up,
- dash,
- dashed,
- deck,
- defeat,
- defeated,
- demoralize,
- demoralized,
- desolated,
- discomfited,
- done for,
- done in,
- down,
- drown,
- drub,
- exceed,
- excel,
- fallen,
- fixed,
- floor,
- floored,
- go one better,
- heart-stricken,
- heart-struck,
- heartbroken,
- helpless,
- hors de combat,
- hurdle,
- improve on,
- influenced,
- inundated,
- knock down,
- knock over,
- lambasted,
- lathered,
- lick,
- licked,
- master,
- moved,
- neurasthenic,
- on the skids,
- out,
- out cold,
- outdone,
- outlive,
- outweigh,
- overbalance,
- overbear,
- overborne,
- overexcited,
- overmaster,
- overmastered,
- overmatch,
- overmatched,
- overpass,
- overpower,
- overpowered,
- overridden,
- overset,
- overthrow,
- overthrown,
- overtop,
- overturn,
- overturned,
- overwhelm,
- overwhelmed,
- overwrought,
- panicked,
- paralyzed,
- passed out,
- perfect,
- predominate,
- preponderate,
- prevail,
- prevail over,
- prostrate,
- prostrated,
- psych out,
- put to rout,
- reduced to jelly,
- rise above,
- rout,
- routed,
- ruined,
- scattered,
- send flying,
- settled,
- shake,
- shaken,
- shot,
- shot to pieces,
- silence,
- silenced,
- skinned,
- skinned alive,
- speechless,
- stampeded,
- stiff,
- stoned,
- stricken,
- subdue,
- subdued,
- subjugate,
- suppress,
- surmount,
- surpass,
- throw,
- top,
- tower above,
- tower over,
- transcend,
- trimmed,
- trip,
- trip up,
- triumph,
- triumph over,
- trounced,
- trump,
- unbrace,
- under the table,
- undo,
- undone,
- unglued,
- unman,
- unmanned,
- unnerve,
- unnerved,
- unstring,
- unstrung,
- upset,
- vanquish,
- whelm,
- whelmed,
- whip,
- whipped,
- win,
- worst,
- worsted
- disproportionate
collapse
- not proportionate
- out of proportion related words >
- abnormal,
- absurd,
- aggrandized,
- aimless,
- amorphous,
- amplified,
- anomalous,
- antagonistic,
- antipathetic,
- asymmetric,
- asymmetrical,
- at cross-purposes,
- at loggerheads,
- at odds,
- at variance,
- at war,
- ballyhooed,
- capricious,
- casual,
- clashing,
- contradictory,
- contrary,
- cranky,
- cross,
- desultory,
- differing,
- disaccordant,
- disagreeable,
- disagreeing,
- disarticulated,
- discontinuous,
- discordant,
- discrepant,
- disharmonious,
- disjunct,
- disordered,
- disparate,
- dispersed,
- dissident,
- dissimilar,
- dissonant,
- divergent,
- erratic,
- exaggerated,
- excessive,
- exorbitant,
- extravagant,
- extreme,
- fitful,
- formless,
- frivolous,
- grandiloquent,
- grating,
- gratuitous,
- haphazard,
- high-flown,
- hit-or-miss,
- hostile,
- hyperbolic,
- ill-matched,
- ill-sorted,
- immethodical,
- immiscible,
- inaccordant,
- inadequate,
- inchoate,
- incoherent,
- incommensurable,
- incommensurate,
- incompatible,
- incongruous,
- inconsequent,
- inconsistent,
- inconsonant,
- indiscriminate,
- inflated,
- inharmonious,
- inordinate,
- insufficient,
- irreconcilable,
- irregular,
- jangling,
- jarring,
- lopsided,
- magnified,
- meaningless,
- mismatched,
- misshapen,
- negative,
- nonsymmetrical,
- nonsystematic,
- nonuniform,
- odd,
- off-balance,
- orderless,
- out of accord,
- out of proportion,
- out of whack,
- overbalanced,
- overdone,
- overdrawn,
- overemphasized,
- overemphatic,
- overestimated,
- overgreat,
- overlarge,
- overpraised,
- oversold,
- overstated,
- overstressed,
- overwrought,
- oxymoronic,
- paradoxical,
- planless,
- prodigal,
- profuse,
- promiscuous,
- puffed,
- random,
- repugnant,
- self-contradictory,
- senseless,
- shapeless,
- skew,
- skewed,
- spasmodic,
- sporadic,
- straggling,
- straggly,
- stretched,
- superlative,
- systemless,
- touted,
- unarranged,
- unbalanced,
- unclassified,
- uncongenial,
- undirected,
- unequal,
- uneven,
- unfair,
- ungraded,
- unharmonious,
- unjoined,
- unmethodical,
- unordered,
- unorganized,
- unsorted,
- unsymmetrical,
- unsystematic,
- ununiform,
- vague,
- variant,
- wandering
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- achingly sweet,
- affected,
- agreeable,
- agreeable-sounding,
- appealing,
- ariose,
- arioso,
- aureate,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- bombastic,
- booming,
- canorous,
- cantabile,
- catchy,
- clangorous,
- clattery,
- consonant,
- convoluted,
- deafening,
- declamatory,
- droning,
- dulcet,
- ear-piercing,
- ear-rending,
- ear-splitting,
- earthshaking,
- elevated,
- euphonic,
- euphonious,
- euphonous,
- euphuistic,
- fine-toned,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- flowery,
- forte,
- fortissimo,
- full,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- golden,
- golden-tongued,
- golden-voiced,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- honeyed,
- inkhorn,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- loud,
- loud-sounding,
- loudish,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- melic,
- mellifluent,
- mellifluous,
- mellisonant,
- mellow,
- melodic,
- melodious,
- meretricious,
- monotone,
- monotonic,
- music-flowing,
- music-like,
- musical,
- noiseful,
- oratorical,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overblown,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- pealing,
- pedantic,
- piercing,
- plangent,
- pleasant,
- pleasant-sounding,
- pompous,
- pretentious,
- pulsing,
- rackety,
- resonant,
- resonating,
- resounding,
- rhetorical,
- rich,
- ringing,
- rolling,
- rotund,
- round,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- showy,
- silver-toned,
- silver-tongued,
- silver-voiced,
- silvery,
- singable,
- songful,
- songlike,
- soniferous,
- sounded,
- sounding,
- stentoraphonic,
- stentorian,
- stentorious,
- stilted,
- sweet,
- sweet-flowing,
- sweet-sounding,
- tall,
- throbbing,
- thunderous,
- tonal,
- toneless,
- tonitruant,
- tonitruous,
- tortuous,
- tunable,
- tuneful,
- uproarious,
- vibrant,
- vibrating,
- window-rattling
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