Related Words:
- rhetorical
collapse - concerned with effect or style of writing and speaking; "a rhetorical question is one asked solely to produce an effect (especially to make an assertion) rather than to elicit a reply"
- of or relating to rhetoric; "accepted two or three verbal and rhetorical changes I suggested"- W.A.White; "the rhetorical sin of the meaningless variation"- Lewis Mumford related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- affected,
- articulate,
- artificial,
- aureate,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- bombastic,
- chichi,
- contrived,
- convoluted,
- declamatory,
- elevated,
- elocutionary,
- eloquent,
- embellished,
- euphuistic,
- exaggerated,
- expressive,
- extravagant,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- florid,
- flowery,
- fluent,
- for effect,
- forensic,
- fulsome,
- fustian,
- garish,
- gassy,
- gaudy,
- glib,
- grand,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- imposing,
- inflated,
- inkhorn,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- linguistic,
- lofty,
- long-winded,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- meretricious,
- mouthy,
- oratorical,
- ornate,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overblown,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- pedantic,
- poetic,
- pompous,
- pretentious,
- prolix,
- purple,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- sesquipedalian,
- showy,
- sonorous,
- stilted,
- stylistic,
- swelling,
- swollen,
- tall,
- tortuous,
- tumescent,
- tumid,
- turgid,
- unanswerable,
- vocal,
- voluble,
- windy,
- wordy
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- affected,
- bedazzling,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- blatant,
- blinding,
- brazen,
- brazenfaced,
- bright,
- bright and shining,
- brilliant,
- cheap,
- chintzy,
- colorful,
- convoluted,
- crude,
- dazzling,
- declamatory,
- effulgent,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- extravagant,
- flagrant,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flaring,
- flash,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- florid,
- fulgent,
- fulgid,
- fulsome,
- gaudy,
- glaring,
- glary,
- gorgeous,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- harsh,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- inkhorn,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- loud,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- meretricious,
- obtrusive,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overbright,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- pedantic,
- pompous,
- pretentious,
- raffish,
- raw,
- refulgent,
- resplendent,
- rhetorical,
- screaming,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- shameless,
- showy,
- shrieking,
- sonorous,
- spectacular,
- splendent,
- splendid,
- splendorous,
- stilted,
- tall,
- tasteless,
- tawdry,
- tinsel,
- tortuous,
- vivid,
- vulgar
- overrefined
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- excessively delicate or refined related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Gongoristic,
- Marinistic,
- affected,
- allergic,
- anaphylactic,
- apparently sound,
- artificial,
- casuistic,
- chichi,
- colorable,
- deceptive,
- delicate,
- disingenuous,
- elaborate,
- elaborated,
- elegant,
- empathetic,
- empathic,
- empty,
- euphemistic,
- euphuistic,
- exquisite,
- fallacious,
- formalistic,
- goody good-good,
- goody-goody,
- goosy,
- hairsplitting,
- hollow,
- hypercritical,
- hyperelegant,
- hyperesthetic,
- hyperpathic,
- hypersensitive,
- illusive,
- insincere,
- irritable,
- itchy,
- jesuitic,
- la-di-da,
- mannered,
- mincing,
- morbidly sensitive,
- namby-pamby,
- nervous,
- overconscientious,
- overcritical,
- overelaborate,
- overelegant,
- overfastidious,
- overmeticulous,
- overnice,
- overparticular,
- overprecise,
- overscrupulous,
- oversensible,
- oversensitive,
- oversqueamish,
- oversubtle,
- overtender,
- passible,
- pedantic,
- philosophistic,
- plausible,
- precieuse,
- precieux,
- precious,
- precisian,
- precisianistic,
- precisionistic,
- pretentious,
- prickly,
- puristic,
- refined,
- responsive,
- sensitive,
- simpering,
- skittish,
- sophistic,
- sophistical,
- specious,
- studied,
- supersensitive,
- sympathetic,
- tactful,
- tender,
- tetchy,
- thin-skinned,
- ticklish,
- touchy,
- ultracritical,
- unnatural
- overdone
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- cooked too long but still edible related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- affected,
- aggrandized,
- amplified,
- artificial,
- ballyhooed,
- bedizened,
- bien cuit,
- big-sounding,
- convoluted,
- declamatory,
- disproportionate,
- done,
- doneness,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- exaggerated,
- excessive,
- exorbitant,
- extravagant,
- extreme,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- histrionic,
- hyperbolic,
- inflated,
- inkhorn,
- inordinate,
- insincere,
- la-di-da,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- magnified,
- magniloquent,
- maniere,
- mannered,
- medium,
- medium-rare,
- meretricious,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overacted,
- overcooked,
- overdrawn,
- overelaborate,
- overemphasized,
- overemphatic,
- overestimated,
- overgreat,
- overinvolved,
- overlarge,
- overpraised,
- oversold,
- overstated,
- overstrained,
- overstressed,
- overwrought,
- pedantic,
- pompous,
- pretentious,
- prodigal,
- profuse,
- puffed,
- rhetorical,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- showy,
- sonorous,
- stagy,
- stilted,
- stretched,
- superlative,
- tall,
- theatrical,
- tortuous,
- touted,
- unnatural,
- well-cooked,
- well-done
- priggish
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- exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts" related words >
- Quakerish,
- Victorian,
- abusive,
- blackening,
- blameful,
- censorious,
- choicy,
- choosy,
- condemnatory,
- condescending,
- conformist,
- conscientious,
- contemptuous,
- critical,
- damnatory,
- demure,
- denunciatory,
- deprecative,
- deprecatory,
- depreciative,
- derisive,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- disparaging,
- exacting,
- execrating,
- execrative,
- execratory,
- fastidious,
- formal,
- formalistic,
- fussy,
- goody-goody,
- hidebound,
- high-hat,
- invective,
- inveighing,
- judgmental,
- meticulous,
- mid-Victorian,
- narrow,
- nit-picking,
- objurgatory,
- old-maidish,
- overmodest,
- particular,
- patronizing,
- pedantic,
- perfectionistic,
- picky,
- precious,
- precise,
- precisianistic,
- prig,
- prim,
- prissy,
- prudish,
- punctilious,
- purist,
- puristic,
- puritanic,
- puritanical,
- reproachful,
- reprobative,
- reviling,
- ridiculing,
- sanctimonious,
- scoffing,
- scrupulous,
- selective,
- self-complacent,
- self-contented,
- self-esteeming,
- self-loving,
- self-righteous,
- self-satisfied,
- sensitive,
- severe,
- smug,
- sniffy,
- snippy,
- snobbish,
- snobby,
- snooty,
- snotty,
- stick-in-the-mud,
- stiff-necked,
- strait-laced,
- straitlaced,
- strict,
- stuffy,
- uptight,
- vilifying,
- vituperative
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- affected,
- ambitious,
- arrogant,
- aureate,
- bedizened,
- big,
- big-sounding,
- bombastic,
- classy,
- condescending,
- convoluted,
- declamatory,
- domineering,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- extravagant,
- fancy,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- florid,
- flossy,
- flowery,
- fulsome,
- fustian,
- garish,
- gassy,
- gaudy,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- haughty,
- high,
- high-faluting,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-headed,
- high-minded,
- high-nosed,
- high-sounding,
- high-swelling,
- high-toned,
- highfaluting,
- hoity-toity,
- inflated,
- inkhorn,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lexiphanicism,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- meretricious,
- oratorical,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overbearing,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- patronizing,
- pedantic,
- pompous,
- pretentious,
- proud,
- purse-proud,
- rant,
- rhapsody,
- rhetoric,
- rhetorical,
- rodomontade,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- showy,
- sonorous,
- stilted,
- stuck-up,
- superior,
- swollen,
- tall,
- tony,
- toplofty,
- tortuous,
- uppish,
- uppity,
- upstage,
- vaunting,
- windy
- impersonal
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- having no personal preference; "impersonal criticism"; "a neutral observer"
- not relating to or responsive to individual persons; "an impersonal corporation"; "an impersonal remark" related words >
- Olympian,
- abstract,
- aloof,
- backward,
- bashful,
- blank,
- candid,
- chilled,
- chilly,
- cold,
- cold-blooded,
- colorless,
- constrained,
- conventionalized,
- cool,
- detached,
- discreet,
- disinterested,
- dispassionate,
- distant,
- emotionless,
- equal,
- equitable,
- evenhanded,
- expressionless,
- external,
- extraneous,
- extraorganismal,
- extrinsic,
- fair,
- forbidding,
- foreign,
- formal,
- formalist,
- formalistic,
- formulary,
- frigid,
- frosty,
- guarded,
- icy,
- impartial,
- impassive,
- inaccessible,
- indifferent,
- introverted,
- just,
- legalistic,
- lofty,
- matter-of-fact,
- mechanical,
- modest,
- neutral,
- nominal,
- nonsubjective,
- objective,
- offish,
- outlying,
- outside,
- outward,
- pedantic,
- poker-faced,
- prim,
- remote,
- removed,
- repressed,
- reserved,
- restrained,
- reticent,
- retiring,
- rigid,
- selfless,
- shrinking,
- standoff,
- standoffish,
- stiff,
- strait-laced,
- stuffy,
- stylized,
- subdued,
- superficial,
- suppressed,
- surface,
- unaffable,
- unapproachable,
- unbiased,
- uncolored,
- uncongenial,
- undazzled,
- undemonstrative,
- unexpansive,
- unfriendly,
- ungenial,
- unimpassioned,
- uninfluenced,
- unjaundiced,
- unprejudiced,
- unprepossessed,
- unselfish,
- unswayed,
- withdrawn,
- wooden
- grandiose
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- impressive because of unnecessary largeness or grandeur; used to show disapproval
- affectedly genteel related words >
- Babylonian,
- Corinthian,
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- affected,
- ambitious,
- august,
- awe-inspiring,
- awful,
- barbaric,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- bombastic,
- convoluted,
- cosmic,
- declamatory,
- deluxe,
- elaborate,
- elegant,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- extravagant,
- fancy,
- fine,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flash,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- florid,
- fulsome,
- fustian,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- glorious,
- grand,
- grandiloquent,
- grandisonant,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- histrionic,
- imposing,
- impressive,
- inflated,
- inkhorn,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- lordly,
- lurid,
- luxurious,
- magnificent,
- magniloquent,
- majestic,
- melodramatic,
- meretricious,
- monumental,
- noble,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overambitious,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwhelming,
- overwrought,
- palatial,
- pedantic,
- plush,
- pompous,
- posh,
- pretentious,
- princely,
- proud,
- rhetorical,
- ritzy,
- royal,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- showy,
- sonorous,
- splendacious,
- splendid,
- splendiferous,
- stately,
- stilted,
- sumptuous,
- superb,
- superfancy,
- superfine,
- swank,
- swanky,
- swell,
- tall,
- tortuous,
- unfathomable,
- utopian,
- vast,
- visionary
- 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
- corresponding
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- agreeing in amount, magnitude, or degree; "the figures are large but the corresponding totals next year will be larger"
- accompanying; "all rights carry with them corresponding responsibilities"
- similar especially in position or purpose; "a number of corresponding diagonal points" related words >
- accordant,
- affirmative,
- agnate,
- agreeable,
- agreeing,
- akin,
- alike,
- all one,
- all the same,
- amicable,
- anal,
- analogous,
- answerable,
- answering,
- at one,
- attuned,
- bourgeois,
- coequal,
- coexistent,
- coexisting,
- coextensive,
- coherent,
- coincident,
- coincidental,
- coinciding,
- commensurate,
- comparable,
- compatible,
- complemental,
- complementary,
- compulsive,
- concordant,
- concurring,
- conformable,
- conformist,
- congenial,
- congruent,
- congruous,
- consentaneous,
- consentient,
- consistent,
- consonant,
- conventional,
- convertible,
- cooperating,
- cooperative,
- coordinate,
- correspondent,
- coterminous,
- duplicate,
- empathetic,
- empathic,
- en rapport,
- equal,
- equiparant,
- equipollent,
- equivalent,
- formalistic,
- frictionless,
- harmonious,
- homologous,
- identical,
- in accord,
- in agreement,
- in concert,
- in keeping,
- in line,
- in rapport,
- in step,
- in sync,
- in synchronization,
- in tune,
- inaccordance,
- inharmony,
- kosher,
- like-minded,
- matching,
- much the same,
- of a kind,
- of a piece,
- of a size,
- of like mind,
- of one mind,
- on all fours,
- orthodox,
- parallel,
- paralleling,
- peaceful,
- pedantic,
- plastic,
- positive,
- precisianistic,
- proportionate,
- reciprocal,
- reciprocative,
- reconcilable,
- self-consistent,
- similar,
- square,
- straight,
- stuffy,
- symbiotic,
- sympathetic,
- synchronized,
- synchronous,
- synonymous,
- tantamount,
- together,
- traditionalist,
- twin,
- unanimous,
- understanding,
- undifferentiated,
- uniform,
- unisonant,
- unisonous,
- united,
- uptight
- 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
- kosher
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- food that fulfills the requirements of Jewish dietary law
- conforming to dietary laws; "kosher meat"; "a kosher kitchen"
- proper or legitimate related words >
- accordant,
- according to Hoyle,
- actionable,
- anal,
- applicable,
- appropriate,
- authorized,
- bleached,
- bourgeois,
- bright,
- clean,
- cleanly,
- comestible,
- competent,
- compulsive,
- concordant,
- condign,
- conformist,
- constitutional,
- conventional,
- correct,
- corresponding,
- dainty,
- decent,
- decorous,
- delicious,
- dirt-free,
- due,
- eatable,
- edible,
- esculent,
- fair,
- fastidious,
- fit,
- fitting,
- formalistic,
- fresh,
- good,
- gustable,
- harmonious,
- immaculate,
- in accord,
- in keeping,
- in line,
- in step,
- judicial,
- juridical,
- just,
- justiciable,
- lawful,
- lawmaking,
- legal,
- legislative,
- legit,
- legitimate,
- licit,
- nice,
- nonpolluted,
- normal,
- normative,
- of cleanly habits,
- orthodox,
- palatable,
- pedantic,
- plastic,
- precisianistic,
- proper,
- pure,
- right,
- right and proper,
- righteous,
- rightful,
- ritually pure,
- sanctioned,
- savory,
- seemly,
- shiny,
- smut-free,
- smutless,
- spotless,
- square,
- stainless,
- statutory,
- straight,
- stuffy,
- succulent,
- suitable,
- sweet,
- tahar,
- traditionalist,
- tubbed,
- unadulterated,
- unbesmirched,
- unblemished,
- unblotted,
- undefiled,
- unmuddied,
- unpolluted,
- unsmirched,
- unsmudged,
- unsoiled,
- unspotted,
- unstained,
- unsullied,
- untainted,
- untarnished,
- uptight,
- valid,
- well-scrubbed,
- well-washed,
- white,
- whitened,
- within the law
- formulary
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- (pharmacology) a book containing a compilation of pharmaceutical products with their formulas and methods of preparation; "postexposure prophylaxis is an integral part of the pharmacopeia in preventing severe disease after acute infections"
- of or relating to or of the nature of a formula related words >
- High-Church,
- Procrustean law,
- act,
- authoritative,
- baptismal,
- bill,
- binding,
- bylaw,
- canon,
- canonical,
- ceremonial,
- ceremonious,
- ceremony,
- code,
- conventionalized,
- criterion,
- decree,
- dictate,
- dictated,
- dictation,
- didactic,
- duty,
- edict,
- enactment,
- eucharistic,
- extrinsic,
- form,
- form of worship,
- formal,
- formalist,
- formalistic,
- formality,
- formula,
- formular,
- function,
- guideline,
- hard and fast,
- holy rite,
- impersonal,
- institution,
- instructive,
- jus,
- law,
- law of nature,
- legalistic,
- legislation,
- lex,
- liturgic,
- liturgistic,
- liturgy,
- mandatory,
- maxim,
- measure,
- mode of worship,
- mystery,
- nominal,
- norm,
- norma,
- observance,
- office,
- official,
- order of nature,
- order of worship,
- ordinance,
- ordonnance,
- outward,
- paschal,
- pedantic,
- practice,
- preceptive,
- prescribed,
- prescribed form,
- prescript,
- prescription,
- prescriptive,
- principle,
- receipt,
- recipe,
- regulation,
- rite,
- ritual,
- ritual observance,
- ritualistic,
- rituality,
- rubric,
- rule,
- ruling,
- sacrament,
- sacramental,
- sacramentarian,
- service,
- set form,
- solemnity,
- standard,
- standing order,
- statute,
- statutory,
- stylized,
- superficial,
- surface,
- universal law
- 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
- orthodox
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- adhering to what is commonly accepted; "an orthodox view of the world"
- of or pertaining to or characteristic of Judaism; "Orthodox Judaism"
- of or relating to or characteristic of the Eastern Orthodox Church related words >
- Christian,
- Orthodox Jew,
- Sunni Muslim,
- accepted,
- accordant,
- accustomed,
- acknowledged,
- admitted,
- anal,
- approved,
- authentic,
- authoritative,
- authorized,
- being done,
- bourgeois,
- button-down,
- canonical,
- canonist,
- comme il faut,
- common,
- compulsive,
- concordant,
- conformable,
- conformist,
- conservative,
- conventional,
- correct,
- corresponding,
- customary,
- de rigueur,
- decent,
- decorous,
- die-hard,
- doctrinal,
- dour,
- established,
- evangelical,
- faithful,
- firm,
- fogyish,
- formal,
- formalistic,
- fundamentalist,
- hard,
- harmonious,
- hidebound,
- impliable,
- in accord,
- in keeping,
- in line,
- in step,
- inexorable,
- inflexible,
- iron,
- ironbound,
- ironclad,
- ironhanded,
- kosher,
- literal,
- meet,
- muscle-bound,
- obdurate,
- obstinate,
- of the faith,
- official,
- old-line,
- ordinary,
- orthodox Christian,
- orthodoxical,
- orthodoxist,
- pedantic,
- plastic,
- popular,
- precisianistic,
- prevailing,
- prevalent,
- procrustean,
- proper,
- purist,
- puristic,
- puritan,
- puritanic,
- reactionary,
- received,
- recognized,
- regular,
- relentless,
- right,
- rigid,
- rigorist,
- rigoristic,
- rigorous,
- rockbound,
- sanctioned,
- scriptural,
- seemly,
- sound,
- square,
- standard,
- stiff,
- straight,
- straightlaced,
- straitlaced,
- stubborn,
- stuffy,
- textual,
- textualist,
- textuary,
- the orthodox,
- tory,
- traditional,
- traditionalist,
- traditionalistic,
- true,
- true believer,
- true-blue,
- unbending,
- uncompromising,
- unrelenting,
- unyielding,
- uptight
- Jonathan Oldbuck,
- Miniver Cheevy,
- Pre-Raphaelite,
- academic,
- antiquarian,
- antiquary,
- antique collector,
- antique dealer,
- antique-car collector,
- archaeologist,
- archaist,
- arid,
- barren,
- blah,
- blank,
- bloodless,
- bookish,
- bore,
- broken-record,
- bromidic,
- buttonholer,
- characterless,
- classicist,
- cold,
- colorless,
- crashing bore,
- dead,
- devoted to studies,
- diligent,
- dismal,
- donnish,
- drag,
- draggy,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- drip,
- dry,
- dull,
- dusty,
- effete,
- elephantine,
- empty,
- etiolated,
- everlasting,
- fade,
- flat,
- flat tire,
- frightful bore,
- harping,
- headache,
- heavy,
- ho-hum,
- hollow,
- humdrum,
- inane,
- inexcitable,
- insipid,
- invariable,
- jejune,
- jog-trot,
- laudator temporis acti,
- leaden,
- lifeless,
- long-winded,
- low-spirited,
- mandarin,
- medievalist,
- monotonous,
- nuisance,
- owlish,
- pale,
- pallid,
- pedantic,
- pedestrian,
- pest,
- pill,
- plodding,
- pointless,
- poky,
- ponderous,
- professorial,
- prolix,
- proser,
- rabbinic,
- scholarly,
- scholastic,
- singsong,
- slow,
- solemn,
- spiritless,
- sterile,
- stiff,
- stodgy,
- studious,
- stuffy,
- superficial,
- tasteless,
- tedious,
- treadmill,
- twaddler,
- uneventful,
- uninteresting,
- unlively,
- unvarying,
- vapid,
- weariful,
- wearisome,
- wet blanket,
- wooden
- 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
- diligent
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- characterized by care and perseverance in carrying out tasks; "a diligent detective investigates all clues"; "a diligent search of the files"
- quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness; "a diligent (or patient) worker"; "with persevering (or patient) industry she revived the failing business" related words >
- academic,
- advertent,
- agog,
- alert,
- all ears,
- all eyes,
- ardent,
- assiduous,
- attentive,
- aware,
- bookish,
- careful,
- concentrated,
- conscientious,
- conscious,
- constant,
- continuing,
- devoted to studies,
- dogged,
- donnish,
- dryasdust,
- earnest,
- elaborate,
- enduring,
- energetic,
- faithful,
- fervent,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- hard,
- hard-working,
- hardworking,
- heedful,
- immutable,
- inalterable,
- indefatigable,
- indomitable,
- industrious,
- insistent,
- intense,
- intent,
- intentive,
- invincible,
- laborious,
- lasting,
- loyal,
- mandarin,
- meticulous,
- mindful,
- never idle,
- never-tiring,
- nice,
- niggling,
- observant,
- observing,
- obstinate,
- on the ball,
- on the job,
- open-eared,
- open-eyed,
- openmouthed,
- operose,
- owlish,
- painstaking,
- patient,
- patient as Job,
- pedantic,
- permanent,
- perseverant,
- persevering,
- persistent,
- persisting,
- pertinacious,
- plodding,
- plugging,
- preoccupied,
- professorial,
- punctilious,
- rabbinic,
- rapt,
- regardful,
- relentless,
- resolute,
- scholarly,
- scholastic,
- scrupulous,
- sedulous,
- single-minded,
- sleepless,
- slogging,
- stable,
- steadfast,
- steady,
- strenuous,
- stubborn,
- studious,
- tenacious,
- thorough,
- thoroughgoing,
- tireless,
- unabating,
- unconquerable,
- undaunted,
- undiscouraged,
- undrooping,
- unfailing,
- unfaltering,
- unflagging,
- unflinching,
- unintermitting,
- uninterrupted,
- unnodding,
- unrelaxing,
- unrelenting,
- unremitting,
- unsleeping,
- unsparing,
- unswerving,
- untiring,
- unwavering,
- unwearied,
- unwearying,
- unwinking,
- utterly attentive,
- vehement,
- watchful,
- weariless,
- zealous
- 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
- 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
- arid
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- lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless; "a technically perfect but arid performance of the sonata"; "a desiccate romance"; "a prissy and emotionless creature...settles into a mold of desiccated snobbery"-C.J.Rolo
- lacking sufficient water or rainfall; "an arid climate"; "a waterless well"; "miles of waterless country to cross" related words >
- Saharan,
- academic,
- acarpous,
- anhydrous,
- athirst,
- barren,
- blah,
- blank,
- bloodless,
- bone-dry,
- bookish,
- boring,
- bromidic,
- celibate,
- characterless,
- childless,
- cold,
- colorless,
- dead,
- desert,
- desolate,
- dismal,
- drab,
- draggy,
- drained,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- dried-up,
- droughty,
- dry,
- dry as dust,
- dryasdust,
- dull,
- dusty,
- earthbound,
- effete,
- elephantine,
- empty,
- etiolated,
- exhausted,
- fade,
- fallow,
- flat,
- fruitless,
- gaunt,
- gelded,
- heavy,
- high and dry,
- ho-hum,
- hollow,
- humdrum,
- impotent,
- inane,
- ineffectual,
- inexcitable,
- infecund,
- infertile,
- insipid,
- issueless,
- jejune,
- juiceless,
- lackluster,
- leached,
- leaden,
- lifeless,
- like parchment,
- literal,
- low-spirited,
- menopausal,
- moistureless,
- monotonous,
- mundane,
- nonfertile,
- nonproducing,
- nonproductive,
- nonprolific,
- pale,
- pallid,
- pedantic,
- pedestrian,
- plodding,
- pointless,
- poky,
- ponderous,
- prosaic,
- prosing,
- prosy,
- sandy,
- sapless,
- sere,
- sine prole,
- slow,
- solemn,
- spiritless,
- staid,
- sterile,
- stiff,
- stodgy,
- stolid,
- stuffy,
- sucked dry,
- superficial,
- tasteless,
- tedious,
- teemless,
- thirsting,
- thirsty,
- unanimated,
- uncultivated,
- undamped,
- unfanciful,
- unfertile,
- unfruitful,
- unideal,
- unimaginative,
- uninspired,
- uninteresting,
- uninventive,
- unlively,
- unoriginal,
- unplowed,
- unpoetic,
- unproductive,
- unprolific,
- unromantic,
- unromanticized,
- unsown,
- untilled,
- unwatered,
- vapid,
- virgin,
- waste,
- wasted,
- waterless,
- weariful,
- wearisome,
- without issue,
- wooden
- 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
- stodgy
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- excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull; "why is the middle class so stodgy, so utterly without a sense of humor?"; "a stodgy dinner party"
- heavy and starchy and hard to digest; "stodgy food"; "a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was already full" related words >
- Spartan,
- adhesive,
- aloof,
- amylaceous,
- apathetic,
- arid,
- banausic,
- barren,
- blah,
- bland,
- blank,
- bloodless,
- boring,
- characterless,
- clabbered,
- clammy,
- clotted,
- coagulated,
- cold,
- colorless,
- curdled,
- dead,
- deadly,
- detached,
- dim,
- dismal,
- doughy,
- dowdy,
- draggy,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- dry,
- dryasdust,
- dull,
- dusty,
- effete,
- elephantine,
- empty,
- etiolated,
- fade,
- flat,
- fogyish,
- frumpish,
- frumpy,
- fuddy-duddy,
- gaumy,
- gelatinous,
- glairy,
- gluelike,
- gluey,
- glutenous,
- glutinose,
- glutinous,
- gooey,
- grumous,
- gumbo,
- gumbolike,
- gumlike,
- gummous,
- gummy,
- heavy,
- ho-hum,
- hollow,
- humdrum,
- inane,
- indifferent,
- indomitable,
- inexcitable,
- insipid,
- inspissated,
- jejune,
- jelled,
- jellied,
- jellylike,
- leaden,
- lifeless,
- long-suffering,
- low-spirited,
- matter-of-fact,
- monotone,
- monotonous,
- mucilaginous,
- old-fogy,
- old-fogyish,
- out-of-date,
- outmoded,
- pale,
- pallid,
- pasty,
- patient,
- pedantic,
- pedestrian,
- phlegmatic,
- plodding,
- pointless,
- poky,
- ponderous,
- ravaged with age,
- resigned,
- ropy,
- self-controlled,
- senile,
- slabby,
- slimy,
- slithery,
- slow,
- solemn,
- spiritless,
- starchy,
- sterile,
- sticky,
- stiff,
- stoic,
- stolid,
- stringy,
- stuffy,
- superficial,
- syrupy,
- tacky,
- tasteless,
- tedious,
- tenacious,
- thick,
- thickened,
- tiresome,
- tough,
- tremelloid,
- tremellose,
- turgid,
- unassailable,
- unconcerned,
- unexciting,
- unimaginative,
- uninteresting,
- unlively,
- vapid,
- viscid,
- viscose,
- viscous,
- weighty,
- wooden
- 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
- 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
- scholastic
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- a Scholastic philosopher or theologian
- of or relating to schools; "scholastic year"
- of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of scholasticism; "scholastic philosophy" related words >
- Cyrenaic,
- Eleatic,
- Epicurean,
- Megarian,
- Stoic,
- abstruse,
- academic,
- academician,
- animist,
- animistic,
- atomistic,
- bibliophagic,
- bluestocking,
- book-fed,
- book-learned,
- book-loving,
- book-minded,
- book-read,
- book-wise,
- bookish,
- bookman,
- booky,
- canonist,
- civilized,
- classicist,
- classroom,
- clerk,
- collegiate,
- colossus of knowledge,
- conversant,
- cosmotheistic,
- cross-disciplinary,
- cultivated,
- cultured,
- deep,
- devoted to studies,
- diligent,
- divine,
- divinity student,
- donnish,
- dryasdust,
- eclectic,
- educated,
- empirical,
- encyclopedic,
- erudite,
- eudaemonistic,
- existential,
- extramural,
- formal,
- genius,
- giant of learning,
- graduate,
- graduate-professional,
- hedonic,
- hedonist,
- hedonistic,
- humanist,
- humanistic,
- idealistic,
- inkhorn,
- instrumentalist,
- interdisciplinary,
- interscholastic,
- intramural,
- learned,
- learned clerk,
- learned man,
- lettered,
- literary,
- literary man,
- literate,
- litterateur,
- lover of learning,
- man of learning,
- man of letters,
- mandarin,
- mastermind,
- materialistic,
- mechanistic,
- metaphysical,
- mine of information,
- monistic,
- naturalistic,
- nominalist,
- owlish,
- panlogistical,
- pansophic,
- pantheistic,
- pedagogical,
- pedantic,
- philologist,
- philologue,
- philomath,
- philosophe,
- philosopher,
- polyhistor,
- polyhistoric,
- polymath,
- polymathic,
- positivist,
- positivistic,
- postgraduate,
- pragmatic,
- pragmatist,
- preschool,
- professional,
- professorial,
- profound,
- pundit,
- rabbinic,
- rationalistic,
- realist,
- realistic,
- savant,
- scholar,
- scholarly,
- school,
- schoolish,
- schoolman,
- sensationalistic,
- student,
- studious,
- syncretistic,
- theistic,
- theologian,
- theological,
- theologician,
- theologist,
- theologizer,
- theologue,
- transcendentalist,
- transcendentalistic,
- university,
- utilitarian,
- versed,
- vitalistic,
- voluntarist,
- voluntaristic,
- walking encyclopedia,
- wise
- 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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