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- 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
- 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
- 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
- eclectic
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- someone who selects according to the eclectic method
- selecting what seems best of various styles or ideas related words >
- Cyrenaic,
- Eleatic,
- Epicurean,
- Megarian,
- Stoic,
- adoptive,
- amalgamated,
- ambiguous,
- ambivalent,
- amphibious,
- animist,
- animistic,
- appointive,
- assimilated,
- assorted,
- atomistic,
- blended,
- broad,
- catholic,
- choosing,
- choosy,
- combinative,
- combinatory,
- combined,
- complex,
- composite,
- compound,
- compounded,
- comprehensive,
- conglomerate,
- conjoint,
- conjugate,
- conjunctive,
- connective,
- consolidated,
- constituent,
- cosmotheistic,
- dappled,
- derived,
- discerning,
- discriminating,
- diverse,
- diversified,
- elective,
- electoral,
- empirical,
- equivocal,
- eudaemonistic,
- existential,
- fastidious,
- fifty-fifty,
- finicky,
- fused,
- fussy,
- half-and-half,
- hedonic,
- hedonist,
- hedonistic,
- heterogeneous,
- humanist,
- humanistic,
- idealistic,
- inclusive,
- incorporated,
- indiscriminate,
- instrumentalist,
- integrated,
- intricate,
- ironic,
- joined,
- joint,
- jumbled,
- many-sided,
- materialistic,
- mechanistic,
- medley,
- merged,
- metaphysical,
- mingled,
- miscellaneous,
- mixed,
- monistic,
- motley,
- multifaceted,
- multifarious,
- multiform,
- multinational,
- multiracial,
- naturalistic,
- nominalist,
- one,
- panlogistical,
- pantheistic,
- particular,
- patchy,
- picky,
- pluralistic,
- positivist,
- positivistic,
- pragmatic,
- pragmatist,
- promiscuous,
- rationalistic,
- realist,
- realistic,
- scholastic,
- scrambled,
- select,
- selecting,
- selective,
- sensationalistic,
- syncretic,
- syncretistic,
- syncretized,
- synthesized,
- theistic,
- thrown together,
- transcendentalist,
- transcendentalistic,
- united,
- unoriginal,
- utilitarian,
- varied,
- vitalistic,
- voluntarist,
- voluntaristic
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- affected,
- aggrandized,
- amplified,
- arabesque,
- ballyhooed,
- baroque,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- busy,
- chichi,
- convoluted,
- declamatory,
- disproportionate,
- distracted,
- edgy,
- elaborate,
- elegant,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- exaggerated,
- excessive,
- exorbitant,
- extravagant,
- extreme,
- fancy,
- fidgety,
- fine,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- florid,
- flowery,
- frantic,
- frenetic,
- frilly,
- fulsome,
- fussy,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- high-wrought,
- highfalutin,
- hyperbolic,
- in a dither,
- in a tizzy,
- in a twitter,
- inflated,
- inkhorn,
- inordinate,
- jittery,
- jumpy,
- labored,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- luxuriant,
- luxurious,
- magnified,
- magniloquent,
- meretricious,
- moresque,
- nervous,
- on edge,
- ornate,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overcome,
- overdone,
- overdrawn,
- overelaborate,
- overelegant,
- overemphasized,
- overemphatic,
- overestimated,
- overexcited,
- overgreat,
- overinvolved,
- overlabored,
- overlarge,
- overmastered,
- overpowered,
- overpraised,
- oversold,
- overstated,
- overstrained,
- overstressed,
- overwhelmed,
- overworked,
- pedantic,
- picturesque,
- pompous,
- pretentious,
- pretty-pretty,
- prodigal,
- profuse,
- puffed,
- rhetorical,
- rich,
- rococo,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- showy,
- sonorous,
- stilted,
- stretched,
- strung out,
- superlative,
- tall,
- tense,
- tortuous,
- touchy,
- touted,
- upset,
- uptight,
- wound up
- gaudy
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- a celebratory feast held annually at one of the colleges in a British university related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- affected,
- bedizened,
- beggarly,
- beneath contempt,
- big-sounding,
- blatant,
- blinding,
- brazen,
- brazenfaced,
- brummagem,
- cheap,
- cheesy,
- chintzy,
- coarse,
- colorful,
- common,
- contemptible,
- convoluted,
- crass,
- crude,
- crummy,
- declamatory,
- despicable,
- earthy,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- extravagant,
- fake,
- flagrant,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flaring,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- florid,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gimcrack,
- gimcracky,
- glaring,
- gorgeous,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- gross,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- honky-tonk,
- inkhorn,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- loud,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- mean,
- meretricious,
- miserable,
- obscene,
- obtrusive,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overbright,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- paltry,
- pathetic,
- pedantic,
- phony,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- pompous,
- poor,
- pretentious,
- raffish,
- raw,
- rhetorical,
- ribald,
- rough,
- rubbishy,
- rude,
- sad,
- screaming,
- scrubby,
- scruffy,
- scummy,
- scurvy,
- scuzzy,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- shabby,
- sham,
- shameless,
- shoddy,
- showy,
- shrieking,
- sonorous,
- sorry,
- spectacular,
- stilted,
- tacky,
- tall,
- tasteless,
- tatty,
- tawdry,
- tinsel,
- tinselly,
- tortuous,
- trashy,
- trumpery,
- two-for-a-cent,
- two-for-a-penny,
- twopenny,
- twopenny-halfpenny,
- valueless,
- vile,
- vulgar,
- worthless,
- wretched
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- affected,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- blatant,
- blazon,
- blinding,
- brandish,
- brandishing,
- brave,
- bravura,
- braw,
- brazen,
- brazenfaced,
- brilliancy,
- chichi,
- colorful,
- convoluted,
- crude,
- daring,
- dash,
- dashing,
- declamatory,
- demonstration,
- display,
- dramatics,
- dressy,
- eclat,
- elevated,
- etalage,
- euphuistic,
- exhibition,
- exhibitionism,
- exhibitionistic,
- extravagant,
- false front,
- fanfaronade,
- figure,
- flagrant,
- flair,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flaring,
- flashing,
- flashy,
- flaunt,
- flourish,
- flourishing,
- frilly,
- frothy,
- fulsome,
- gallant,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- gay,
- glaring,
- glittering,
- gorgeous,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- histrionics,
- inkhorn,
- jaunty,
- jazzy,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- loud,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- manifestation,
- meretricious,
- obtrusive,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overbright,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- pageant,
- pageantry,
- parade,
- pedantic,
- pompous,
- pretentious,
- rakish,
- raw,
- rhetorical,
- screaming,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- shaking,
- sham,
- shameless,
- show,
- showing-off,
- showy,
- shrieking,
- snazzy,
- sonorous,
- spectacle,
- spectacular,
- splash,
- splashy,
- splurge,
- splurgy,
- sporty,
- staginess,
- stilted,
- tall,
- tawdry,
- theatrics,
- tortuous,
- undulation,
- vaunt,
- vulgar,
- wave,
- wave motion,
- waving
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- absurd,
- affected,
- aggrandized,
- ambitious,
- amplified,
- arrogant,
- ballyhooed,
- bedizened,
- beyond belief,
- big,
- big-sounding,
- bizarre,
- bombastic,
- classy,
- cockamamie,
- condescending,
- convoluted,
- crazy,
- declamatory,
- disproportionate,
- domineering,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- exaggerated,
- excessive,
- exorbitant,
- extravagant,
- extreme,
- fancy,
- fantastic,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- flossy,
- foolish,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gassy,
- gaudy,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- grotesque,
- haughty,
- high,
- high-faluting,
- high-flowing,
- high-flying,
- high-headed,
- high-minded,
- high-nosed,
- high-sounding,
- high-swelling,
- high-toned,
- highfalutin,
- highfaluting,
- hoity-toity,
- hyperbolic,
- incredible,
- inflated,
- inkhorn,
- inordinate,
- labyrinthine,
- laughable,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- ludicrous,
- lurid,
- magnified,
- magniloquent,
- meretricious,
- monstrous,
- nonsensical,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- outrageous,
- outre,
- overbearing,
- overdone,
- overdrawn,
- overelaborate,
- overemphasized,
- overemphatic,
- overestimated,
- overgreat,
- overinvolved,
- overlarge,
- overpraised,
- oversold,
- overstated,
- overstressed,
- overwrought,
- patronizing,
- pedantic,
- pompous,
- poppycockish,
- preposterous,
- pretentious,
- prodigal,
- profuse,
- proud,
- puffed,
- purse-proud,
- rhetorical,
- ridiculous,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- showy,
- sonorous,
- stilted,
- stretched,
- stuck-up,
- superior,
- superlative,
- swollen,
- tall,
- tony,
- toplofty,
- tortuous,
- touted,
- uppish,
- uppity,
- upstage,
- vaunting,
- weird,
- wild,
- windy
- 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
- naturalistic
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- representing what is real; not abstract or ideal; "realistic portraiture"; "a realistic novel"; "in naturalistic colors"; "the school of naturalistic writers" related words >
- Cyrenaic,
- Eleatic,
- Epicurean,
- Marxian,
- Marxist,
- Megarian,
- Stoic,
- animist,
- animistic,
- atomistic,
- authentic,
- bona fide,
- candid,
- card-carrying,
- characteristic,
- commonsense,
- cosmotheistic,
- delineative,
- depictive,
- descriptive,
- dinkum,
- distinctive,
- distinguishing,
- eclectic,
- empirical,
- eudaemonistic,
- exemplary,
- existential,
- expositive,
- expressive,
- faithful,
- following the letter,
- general,
- genuine,
- good,
- graphic,
- hedonic,
- hedonist,
- hedonistic,
- honest,
- honest-to-God,
- humanist,
- humanistic,
- hylomorphous,
- hylotheistic,
- idealistic,
- inartificial,
- instrumentalist,
- lawful,
- legitimate,
- lifelike,
- literal,
- materialist,
- materialistic,
- mechanist,
- mechanistic,
- metaphysical,
- monistic,
- natural,
- naturalist,
- naturistic,
- nominalist,
- normal,
- orderly,
- original,
- panlogistical,
- pantheistic,
- positivist,
- positivistic,
- pragmatic,
- pragmatist,
- pure,
- quintessential,
- rationalistic,
- real,
- realist,
- realistic,
- regular,
- representative,
- rightful,
- sample,
- scholastic,
- sensationalistic,
- simon-pure,
- simple,
- sincere,
- sterling,
- sure-enough,
- syncretistic,
- theistic,
- transcendentalist,
- transcendentalistic,
- true to form,
- true to life,
- true to nature,
- true to reality,
- true to type,
- typal,
- typic,
- typical,
- unadulterated,
- unaffected,
- unassumed,
- unassuming,
- uncolored,
- unconcocted,
- uncopied,
- uncounterfeited,
- undisguised,
- undisguising,
- undistorted,
- unexaggerated,
- unexceptional,
- unfabricated,
- unfanciful,
- unfeigned,
- unfeigning,
- unfictitious,
- unflattering,
- unimagined,
- unimitated,
- uninvented,
- unpretended,
- unpretending,
- unqualified,
- unromantic,
- unsimulated,
- unspecious,
- unsynthetic,
- unvarnished,
- usual,
- utilitarian,
- verbal,
- verbatim,
- veridical,
- verisimilar,
- vitalistic,
- vivid,
- voluntarist,
- voluntaristic,
- well-drawn,
- word-for-word
- 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
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- academic,
- accordant,
- affected,
- anal,
- arid,
- bedizened,
- bibliophagic,
- big-sounding,
- bluestocking,
- book-fed,
- book-learned,
- book-loving,
- book-minded,
- book-read,
- book-wise,
- bookish,
- booky,
- bourgeois,
- compulsive,
- concordant,
- conformist,
- conventional,
- conventionalized,
- convoluted,
- corresponding,
- declamatory,
- devoted to studies,
- didactic,
- diligent,
- doctrinaire,
- donnish,
- dry,
- dryasdust,
- dull,
- elegant,
- elevated,
- erudite,
- euphemistic,
- euphuistic,
- exact,
- exquisite,
- extrinsic,
- fastidious,
- finical,
- finicky,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- formal,
- formalist,
- formalistic,
- formulary,
- fulsome,
- fussy,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- goody good-good,
- goody-goody,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- hair-splitting,
- harmonious,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- impersonal,
- in accord,
- in keeping,
- in line,
- in step,
- inkhorn,
- kosher,
- labyrinthine,
- learned,
- legalistic,
- lexiphanic,
- literary,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- mandarin,
- meretricious,
- meticulous,
- mincing,
- namby-pamby,
- nit-picking,
- nominal,
- orotund,
- orthodox,
- ostentatious,
- outward,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overnice,
- overprecise,
- overrefined,
- overscrupulous,
- overwrought,
- owlish,
- pedagogic,
- pedantical,
- perfectionist,
- plastic,
- pompous,
- preachy,
- preceptorial,
- precieuse,
- precious,
- precisian,
- precisianistic,
- precisionistic,
- pretentious,
- professorial,
- professorlike,
- punctilious,
- puristic,
- quibbling,
- rabbinic,
- rhetorical,
- scholarly,
- scholastic,
- schoolish,
- schoolmastering,
- schoolmasterish,
- schoolmasterlike,
- schoolmasterly,
- schoolmistressy,
- schoolteacherish,
- schoolteachery,
- scrupulous,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- showy,
- simpering,
- sonorous,
- square,
- stiff,
- stilted,
- straight,
- studious,
- stuffy,
- stylized,
- superficial,
- surface,
- tall,
- teacherish,
- teacherlike,
- teachery,
- teachy,
- tortuous,
- traditionalist,
- tutorial,
- uptight,
- vain
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