Related Words:
- arrogant,
- assured,
- autarchic,
- autarkic,
- autonomous,
- cocksure,
- confident,
- convinced,
- decided,
- determined,
- erect,
- free-spirited,
- freewheeling,
- house-proud,
- hubristic,
- independent,
- individualistic,
- inner-directed,
- neutral,
- nonaligned,
- nonpartisan,
- overconfident,
- oversure,
- overweening,
- persuaded,
- poised,
- pompous,
- positive,
- prideful,
- proud,
- proud as Lucifer,
- proud-blooded,
- proud-looking,
- proud-minded,
- proud-spirited,
- proudful,
- proudhearted,
- purse-proud,
- reassured,
- secure,
- self-assured,
- self-confident,
- self-contained,
- self-dependent,
- self-determined,
- self-directing,
- self-esteeming,
- self-governed,
- self-governing,
- self-important,
- self-respecting,
- self-subsistent,
- self-sufficient,
- self-supporting,
- sovereign,
- stiff-necked,
- sure,
- third-force,
- third-world,
- unafraid,
- undoubting,
- unfaltering,
- unhesitating,
- unwavering
- fiddle
collapse - play on a violin; "Zuckerman fiddled that song very nicely"
- play the violin or fiddle
- commit fraud and steal from one's employer; "We found out that she had been fiddling for years"
- avoid (one's assigned duties); "The derelict soldier shirked his duties" related words >
- A string,
- Amati,
- Cremona,
- D string,
- E string,
- G string,
- Strad,
- Stradivari,
- Stradivarius,
- alter,
- bass,
- bass viol,
- bow,
- bridge,
- bull fiddle,
- cello,
- cheat,
- contrabass,
- cook,
- coquet,
- crowd,
- dabble,
- dally,
- doodle,
- double bass,
- falsify,
- feel,
- fiddle with,
- fiddle-faddle,
- fiddlebow,
- fiddlestick,
- fidget,
- fidget with,
- finagle,
- finger with,
- fingerboard,
- fix,
- flimflam,
- flirt,
- fool,
- fool around,
- fool with,
- fraud,
- fribble,
- frivol,
- handle,
- horse around,
- idle,
- interfere with,
- jerk off,
- kid around,
- kit,
- kit fiddle,
- kit violin,
- loiter,
- meddle with,
- mess,
- mess around,
- monkey,
- monkey around,
- monkey business,
- piddle,
- play,
- play around,
- play violin,
- play with,
- potter,
- puddle,
- putter,
- racket,
- saw,
- scrape,
- scroll,
- skin game,
- smatter,
- soundboard,
- string,
- swindle,
- tamper with,
- tenor violin,
- thimblerig,
- tinker,
- touch,
- toy,
- toy with,
- trifle,
- tuning peg,
- twiddle,
- viol,
- viola,
- violin,
- violinette,
- violoncello,
- violoncello piccolo,
- violone,
- violotta
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- affected,
- ambitious,
- aspiring,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- careerist,
- careeristic,
- classy,
- convoluted,
- declamatory,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- fancy,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- flossy,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-reaching,
- high-sounding,
- high-toned,
- highfalutin,
- highfaluting,
- inkhorn,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- meretricious,
- on the make,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- pedantic,
- pompous,
- power-hungry,
- pretentious,
- rhetorical,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- showy,
- sky-aspiring,
- social-climbing,
- sonorous,
- stilted,
- tall,
- tony,
- tortuous,
- vaunting
- disdainful
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- having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer related words >
- abjuratory,
- arrogant,
- audacious,
- bold,
- brash,
- brassy,
- brazen,
- bumptious,
- cavalier,
- challenging,
- cheeky,
- clannish,
- cliquish,
- cocky,
- cold,
- contemptuous,
- contumelious,
- cool,
- daring,
- declinatory,
- defiant,
- defying,
- derisive,
- despising,
- dismissive,
- disregardful,
- exclusive,
- familiar,
- forward,
- greatly daring,
- haughty,
- high and mighty,
- highfalutin,
- hoity-toity,
- hubristic,
- impertinent,
- impudent,
- insolent,
- insulting,
- jeering,
- lordly,
- mocking,
- obtrusive,
- overpresumptuous,
- overweening,
- pert,
- pompous,
- presuming,
- presumptuous,
- prideful,
- procacious,
- proud,
- pushy,
- regal,
- regardless of consequences,
- rejective,
- renunciative,
- saucy,
- scornful,
- sneering,
- sniffy,
- snobbish,
- snobby,
- snooty,
- snotty,
- stuck-up,
- supercilious,
- superior,
- toploftical,
- toplofty,
- uppish,
- uppity,
- withering
- Elysian,
- Olympian,
- affected,
- aggrandized,
- angelic,
- apotheosized,
- archangelic,
- awesome,
- beatific,
- beatified,
- big,
- blessed,
- canonized,
- celestial,
- cherubic,
- counterfeit,
- deified,
- elevated,
- eminent,
- ennobled,
- enshrined,
- enthroned,
- ersatz,
- ethereal,
- exalted,
- excellent,
- extramundane,
- extraterrestrial,
- fake,
- from on high,
- grand,
- great,
- heavenly,
- held in awe,
- high,
- high and mighty,
- high-flown,
- high-sounding,
- imitation,
- immortal,
- immortalized,
- in glory,
- lofty,
- magnified,
- martyred,
- mighty,
- otherworldly,
- overdone,
- overrated,
- paradisaic,
- paradisal,
- paradisiac,
- paradisic,
- pompous,
- pretend,
- pretentious,
- redeemed,
- sainted,
- saintly,
- sanctified,
- saved,
- seraphic,
- sham,
- shrined,
- sublime,
- substitute,
- supereminent,
- supernal,
- throned,
- transcendental,
- transmundane,
- unearthly,
- unworldly
- affected,
- aloof,
- arrogant,
- clannish,
- cliquish,
- complacent,
- conceited,
- condescending,
- contemptuous,
- contumelious,
- disdainful,
- egotistical,
- elect,
- ethnocentric,
- exceptional,
- excluding,
- exclusive,
- exclusory,
- haughty,
- high and mighty,
- high-flown,
- high-hat,
- highfalutin,
- hoity-toity,
- inadmissible,
- insecure,
- insular,
- lofty,
- lordly,
- narrow,
- parochial,
- patronizing,
- pompous,
- potty,
- preclusive,
- prescriptive,
- pretentious,
- preventive,
- priggish,
- prohibitive,
- putting on airs,
- remote,
- restrictive,
- ritzy,
- scornful,
- seclusive,
- segregative,
- select,
- selective,
- self-important,
- self-satisfied,
- separative,
- smug,
- sneering,
- sniffy,
- snippy,
- snobby,
- snooty,
- snotty,
- stuck-up,
- supercilious,
- superior,
- toploftical,
- toplofty,
- uncertain,
- unconfident,
- unsure,
- uppish,
- uppity,
- vain,
- withering,
- xenophobic
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- adorned,
- affected,
- beaded,
- bedecked,
- befrilled,
- bejeweled,
- beribboned,
- bespangled,
- big-sounding,
- convoluted,
- decked out,
- declamatory,
- decorated,
- elevated,
- embellished,
- euphuistic,
- feathered,
- festooned,
- figured,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- flowered,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- garnished,
- gaudy,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- inkhorn,
- jeweled,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- meretricious,
- ornamented,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- pedantic,
- plumed,
- pompous,
- pretentious,
- rhetorical,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- showy,
- sonorous,
- spangled,
- spangly,
- stilted,
- studded,
- tall,
- tortuous,
- tricked out,
- trimmed,
- wreathed
- stately
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- of size and dignity suggestive of a statue related words >
- Babylonian,
- Corinthian,
- aristocratic,
- august,
- awe-inspiring,
- awesome,
- awful,
- barbaric,
- ceremonial,
- ceremonious,
- conventional,
- courtly,
- decorous,
- deluxe,
- dignified,
- distinguished,
- elaborate,
- elegant,
- elevated,
- extravagant,
- fancy,
- fine,
- formal,
- gallant,
- glorious,
- gracious,
- grand,
- grandiose,
- grave,
- hieratic,
- imperial,
- imposing,
- impressive,
- inspiring,
- kingly,
- liturgic,
- lofty,
- lordly,
- luxurious,
- magisterial,
- magnificent,
- majestic,
- moving,
- noble,
- palatial,
- plush,
- pompous,
- posh,
- princely,
- proud,
- queenly,
- regal,
- ritual,
- ritualistic,
- ritzy,
- royal,
- sacerdotal,
- sedate,
- serious,
- sober,
- solemn,
- splendacious,
- splendid,
- splendiferous,
- statuesque,
- striking,
- sublime,
- sumptuous,
- superb,
- superfancy,
- superfine,
- swank,
- swanky,
- swell,
- venerable,
- weighty,
- well-mannered,
- worthy
- acceptable,
- adventurous,
- arrogant,
- assuming,
- audacious,
- bold,
- brash,
- brazen,
- bumptious,
- busy,
- busybody,
- cheeky,
- cold,
- complacent,
- confident,
- contumelious,
- cool,
- daredevil,
- daring,
- death-defying,
- disdainful,
- egotistical,
- familiar,
- fire-eating,
- foolhardy,
- forward,
- gay,
- harebrained,
- hubristic,
- immodest,
- impertinent,
- impudent,
- inexcusable,
- inquisitive,
- insolent,
- insulting,
- licentious,
- lofty,
- madbrain,
- madbrained,
- madcap,
- meddlesome,
- meddling,
- nosy,
- obtrusive,
- officious,
- outrageous,
- overconfident,
- overpresumptuous,
- overweening,
- pompous,
- presuming,
- pretentious,
- prideful,
- procacious,
- proud,
- prying,
- pushful,
- pushing,
- pushy,
- saucy,
- self-appointed,
- self-asserting,
- self-assertive,
- self-assured,
- self-conceited,
- self-elect,
- self-satisfied,
- smug,
- snoopy,
- supercilious,
- temerarious,
- uppish,
- uppity,
- wild,
- wild-ass,
- would-be
- viola
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- a bowed stringed instrument slightly larger than a violin, tuned a fifth lower
- large genus of flowering herbs of temperate regions
- any of the numerous plants of the genus Viola related words >
- A string,
- Amati,
- Cremona,
- D string,
- E string,
- English horn,
- G string,
- Strad,
- Stradivari,
- Stradivarius,
- bass,
- bass viol,
- bassoon,
- block flute,
- bombard,
- bourdon,
- bow,
- bridge,
- bull fiddle,
- cello,
- claribel,
- clarinet,
- clarion,
- concert flute,
- contrabass,
- cornet,
- cornopean,
- cromorna,
- crowd,
- cymbel,
- diapason,
- double bass,
- dulciana,
- fiddle,
- fiddlebow,
- fiddlestick,
- fingerboard,
- flute stop,
- foundation stop,
- fourniture,
- gamba,
- gedeckt,
- gemshorn,
- harmonic flute,
- hybrid stop,
- kit,
- kit fiddle,
- kit violin,
- koppel flute,
- larigot,
- melodia,
- mixture,
- mutation stop,
- nazard,
- oboe,
- octave,
- organ stop,
- piccolo,
- plein jeu,
- posaune,
- principal,
- quint,
- quintaten,
- rank,
- ranket,
- reed stop,
- register,
- rohr flute,
- scroll,
- sesquialtera,
- shawm,
- soundboard,
- spitz flute,
- stop,
- stopped diapason,
- stopped flute,
- string,
- string diapason,
- string stop,
- tenor violin,
- tierce,
- tremolo,
- trombone,
- trumpet,
- tuning peg,
- twelfth,
- unda maris,
- vibrato,
- violin,
- violinette,
- violoncello,
- violoncello piccolo,
- violone,
- violotta,
- voix celeste,
- vox angelica,
- vox humana
- cello
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- a large stringed instrument; seated player holds it upright while playing related words >
- A string,
- Amati,
- Cremona,
- D string,
- E string,
- English horn,
- G string,
- Strad,
- Stradivari,
- Stradivarius,
- bass,
- bass viol,
- bassoon,
- block flute,
- bombard,
- bourdon,
- bow,
- bridge,
- bull fiddle,
- claribel,
- clarinet,
- clarion,
- concert flute,
- contrabass,
- cornet,
- cornopean,
- cromorna,
- crowd,
- cymbel,
- diapason,
- double bass,
- dulciana,
- fiddle,
- fiddlebow,
- fiddlestick,
- fingerboard,
- flute stop,
- foundation stop,
- fourniture,
- gamba,
- gedeckt,
- gemshorn,
- harmonic flute,
- hybrid stop,
- kit,
- kit fiddle,
- kit violin,
- koppel flute,
- larigot,
- melodia,
- mixture,
- mutation stop,
- nazard,
- oboe,
- octave,
- organ stop,
- piccolo,
- plein jeu,
- posaune,
- principal,
- quint,
- quintaten,
- rank,
- ranket,
- reed stop,
- register,
- rohr flute,
- scroll,
- sesquialtera,
- shawm,
- soundboard,
- spitz flute,
- stop,
- stopped diapason,
- stopped flute,
- string,
- string diapason,
- string stop,
- tenor violin,
- tierce,
- tremolo,
- trombone,
- trumpet,
- tuning peg,
- twelfth,
- unda maris,
- vibrato,
- viola,
- violin,
- violinette,
- violoncello,
- violoncello piccolo,
- violone,
- violotta,
- voix celeste,
- vox angelica,
- vox humana
- advantageous,
- aristocratic,
- august,
- auspicious,
- beneficial,
- benevolent,
- bon,
- bonny,
- braw,
- bueno,
- capital,
- cogent,
- commendable,
- contemptuous,
- contumelious,
- courtly,
- derisive,
- derisory,
- dignified,
- disdainful,
- dynastic,
- elegant,
- estimable,
- exalted,
- excellent,
- expedient,
- fair,
- famous,
- favorable,
- fine,
- glorious,
- good,
- goodly,
- grand,
- grave,
- haughty,
- healthy,
- helpful,
- imperatorial,
- imperatorious,
- imperial,
- imperious,
- imposing,
- kind,
- kinglike,
- kingly,
- laudable,
- lordly,
- magisterial,
- magnificent,
- majestic,
- monarchal,
- monarchial,
- monarchic,
- monarchical,
- nice,
- noble,
- palatial,
- pleasant,
- pompous,
- princelike,
- princely,
- profitable,
- proud,
- purple,
- queenlike,
- queenly,
- resplendent,
- royal,
- scornful,
- sedate,
- skillful,
- sober,
- solemn,
- sound,
- sovereign,
- splendid,
- stately,
- statuesque,
- sublime,
- useful,
- valid,
- venerable,
- very good,
- virtuous,
- worthy
- unwieldy
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- difficult to work or manipulate; "unwieldy rules and regulations"
- difficult to use or handle or manage because of size or weight or shape; "we set about towing the unwieldy structure into the shelter"; "almost dropped the unwieldy parcel" related words >
- Latinate,
- all thumbs,
- awkward,
- blunderheaded,
- blundering,
- bombastic,
- boorish,
- bulky,
- bumbling,
- bungling,
- burdensome,
- butterfingered,
- careless,
- clownish,
- clumsy,
- clumsy-fisted,
- contrary,
- cramped,
- crosswise,
- cumbersome,
- cumbrous,
- discommodious,
- elephantine,
- encumbering,
- fingers all thumbs,
- forced,
- formal,
- fumbling,
- gauche,
- gawkish,
- gawky,
- graceless,
- guinde,
- halting,
- ham-fisted,
- ham-handed,
- heavy,
- heavy-handed,
- hulking,
- hulky,
- impractical,
- incommodious,
- inconvenient,
- incumbent,
- inelegant,
- inkhorn,
- labored,
- leaden,
- left-hand,
- left-handed,
- loutish,
- lubberly,
- lumbering,
- lumpish,
- lumpy,
- maladroit,
- massive,
- massy,
- oafish,
- onerous,
- oppressive,
- oversized,
- perverse,
- pompous,
- ponderous,
- sesquipedalian,
- sloppy,
- stiff,
- stilted,
- superincumbent,
- troublesome,
- turgid,
- uncontrollable,
- uncouth,
- ungainly,
- ungraceful,
- unhandy,
- unmanageable
- unhesitating
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- characterized by quickness and firmness; "his reply was unhesitating" related words >
- absolute,
- admitting no exception,
- all-out,
- arrogant,
- assured,
- categorical,
- clear,
- cocksure,
- complete,
- conclusive,
- confident,
- convinced,
- decided,
- decisive,
- definite,
- definitive,
- determinate,
- determined,
- downright,
- entire,
- explicit,
- express,
- final,
- fixed,
- flat,
- flat-out,
- global,
- hubristic,
- immediate,
- implicit,
- inappealable,
- indisputable,
- instantaneous,
- out-and-out,
- outright,
- overconfident,
- oversure,
- overweening,
- peremptory,
- perfect,
- persuaded,
- poised,
- pompous,
- positive,
- prompt,
- proud,
- quick,
- rapid,
- ready,
- reassured,
- resolute,
- round,
- secure,
- self-assured,
- self-confident,
- self-important,
- self-reliant,
- staunch,
- steadfast,
- stick-at-nothing,
- straight,
- straight-out,
- sure,
- swift,
- total,
- unafraid,
- uncircumscribed,
- unconditional,
- unconditioned,
- undeviating,
- undoubting,
- unequivocal,
- unfaltering,
- unflinching,
- unhampered,
- unhesitant,
- unlimited,
- unmistakable,
- unmitigated,
- unqualified,
- unquestioning,
- unreserved,
- unrestricted,
- unshrinking,
- unswerving,
- unwaivable,
- unwavering,
- utter,
- whole,
- wholehearted,
- without exception,
- without reserve
- Gongoresque,
- Gongoristic,
- Johnsonian,
- Marinistic,
- affected,
- arabesque,
- artificial,
- baroque,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- busy,
- chichi,
- convoluted,
- declamatory,
- elaborate,
- elaborated,
- elegant,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- fancy,
- fine,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- florid,
- flowery,
- frilly,
- fulsome,
- fussy,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- high-wrought,
- highfalutin,
- hyperelegant,
- inkhorn,
- labored,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- luxuriant,
- luxurious,
- magniloquent,
- mannered,
- meretricious,
- moresque,
- ornate,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overdone,
- overelegant,
- overinvolved,
- overlabored,
- overnice,
- overrefined,
- overworked,
- overwrought,
- pedantic,
- picturesque,
- pompous,
- precieuse,
- precieux,
- precious,
- pretentious,
- pretty-pretty,
- rhetorical,
- rich,
- rococo,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- showy,
- sonorous,
- stilted,
- studied,
- tall,
- tortuous,
- unnatural
- showy
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- displaying brilliance and virtuosity
- marked by ostentation but often tasteless; "a cheap showy rhinestone bracelet"; "a splashy half-page ad" related words >
- Byzantine,
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- affected,
- arabesque,
- baroque,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- brave,
- bravura,
- braw,
- chichi,
- conspicuous,
- convoluted,
- daring,
- dashing,
- declamatory,
- dressy,
- elaborate,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- exhibitionistic,
- fancy,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashing,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- florid,
- frilly,
- frothy,
- fulsome,
- fussy,
- gallant,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- gay,
- glittering,
- gorgeous,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- inkhorn,
- intricate,
- jaunty,
- jazzy,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- luxurious,
- magniloquent,
- meretricious,
- opulent,
- ornate,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- peacockish,
- peacocky,
- pedantic,
- pompous,
- pretentious,
- rakish,
- resplendent,
- rhetorical,
- rococo,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- show-off,
- snazzy,
- sonorous,
- splashy,
- splurgy,
- sporty,
- stilted,
- sumptuous,
- swank,
- tall,
- tawdry,
- tortuous
- trombone
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- a brass instrument consisting of a long tube whose length can be varied by a U-shaped slide related words >
- English horn,
- alpenhorn,
- alphorn,
- althorn,
- alto horn,
- ballad horn,
- baritone,
- bass horn,
- bassoon,
- block flute,
- bombard,
- bourdon,
- brass choir,
- brass wind,
- brass-wind instrument,
- brasses,
- bugle,
- bugle horn,
- cello,
- claribel,
- clarinet,
- clarion,
- concert flute,
- cornet,
- cornet-a-pistons,
- corno di caccia,
- cornopean,
- cromorna,
- cymbel,
- diapason,
- double-bell euphonium,
- dulciana,
- euphonium,
- flute stop,
- foundation stop,
- fourniture,
- gamba,
- gedeckt,
- gemshorn,
- harmonic flute,
- helicon,
- horn,
- hunting horn,
- hybrid stop,
- key trumpet,
- koppel flute,
- larigot,
- lituus,
- lur,
- mellophone,
- melodia,
- mixture,
- mutation stop,
- nazard,
- oboe,
- octave,
- ophicleide,
- orchestral horn,
- organ stop,
- piccolo,
- plein jeu,
- pocket trumpet,
- posaune,
- post horn,
- principal,
- quint,
- quintaten,
- rank,
- ranket,
- reed stop,
- register,
- rohr flute,
- sackbut,
- saxhorn,
- saxtuba,
- serpent,
- sesquialtera,
- shawm,
- slide trombone,
- sliphorn,
- sousaphone,
- spitz flute,
- stop,
- stopped diapason,
- stopped flute,
- string diapason,
- string stop,
- tenor tuba,
- tierce,
- tremolo,
- tromba,
- trumpet,
- tuba,
- twelfth,
- unda maris,
- valve trombone,
- valve trumpet,
- vibrato,
- viola,
- voix celeste,
- vox angelica,
- vox humana
- oboe
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- a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece related words >
- English horn,
- Pandean pipe,
- aulos,
- basset horn,
- basset oboe,
- bassoon,
- block flute,
- bombard,
- bourdon,
- cello,
- claribel,
- clarinet,
- clarion,
- concert flute,
- contrabassoon,
- contrafagotto,
- cornet,
- cornopean,
- cromorna,
- cromorne,
- cymbel,
- diapason,
- double bassoon,
- double reed,
- dulciana,
- fife,
- fipple flute,
- flageolet,
- flute,
- flute stop,
- foundation stop,
- fourniture,
- gamba,
- gedeckt,
- gemshorn,
- harmonic flute,
- hautboy,
- heckelphone,
- hornpipe,
- hybrid stop,
- koppel flute,
- larigot,
- licorice stick,
- melodia,
- mixture,
- musette,
- mutation stop,
- nazard,
- oaten reed,
- oboe da caccia,
- ocarina,
- octave,
- organ stop,
- panpipe,
- penny-whistle,
- piccolo,
- pipe,
- plein jeu,
- pommer,
- posaune,
- principal,
- quint,
- quintaten,
- rank,
- ranket,
- recorder,
- reed,
- reed instrument,
- reed stop,
- register,
- rohr flute,
- sax,
- saxophone,
- sesquialtera,
- shawm,
- single reed,
- single-reed instrument,
- sonorophone,
- spitz flute,
- stop,
- stopped diapason,
- stopped flute,
- string diapason,
- string stop,
- sweet potato,
- syrinx,
- tabor pipe,
- tenoroon,
- tierce,
- tin-whistle,
- tremolo,
- trombone,
- trumpet,
- twelfth,
- unda maris,
- vibrato,
- viola,
- voix celeste,
- vox angelica,
- vox humana,
- whistle,
- woods,
- woodwind,
- woodwind choir,
- woodwind instrument
- piccolo
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- a small flute; pitched an octave above the standard flute related words >
- English horn,
- Pandean pipe,
- aulos,
- basset horn,
- basset oboe,
- bassoon,
- block flute,
- bombard,
- bourdon,
- cello,
- claribel,
- clarinet,
- clarion,
- concert flute,
- contrabassoon,
- contrafagotto,
- cornet,
- cornopean,
- cromorna,
- cromorne,
- cymbel,
- diapason,
- double bassoon,
- double reed,
- dulciana,
- fife,
- fipple flute,
- flageolet,
- flute,
- flute stop,
- foundation stop,
- fourniture,
- gamba,
- gedeckt,
- gemshorn,
- harmonic flute,
- hautboy,
- heckelphone,
- hornpipe,
- hybrid stop,
- koppel flute,
- larigot,
- licorice stick,
- melodia,
- mixture,
- musette,
- mutation stop,
- nazard,
- oaten reed,
- oboe,
- oboe da caccia,
- ocarina,
- octave,
- organ stop,
- panpipe,
- penny-whistle,
- pipe,
- plein jeu,
- pommer,
- posaune,
- principal,
- quint,
- quintaten,
- rank,
- ranket,
- recorder,
- reed,
- reed instrument,
- reed stop,
- register,
- rohr flute,
- sax,
- saxophone,
- sesquialtera,
- shawm,
- single reed,
- single-reed instrument,
- sonorophone,
- spitz flute,
- stop,
- stopped diapason,
- stopped flute,
- string diapason,
- string stop,
- sweet potato,
- syrinx,
- tabor pipe,
- tenoroon,
- tierce,
- tin-whistle,
- tremolo,
- trombone,
- trumpet,
- twelfth,
- unda maris,
- vibrato,
- viola,
- voix celeste,
- vox angelica,
- vox humana,
- whistle,
- woods,
- woodwind,
- woodwind choir,
- woodwind instrument
- bassoon
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- a double-reed instrument; the tenor of the oboe family related words >
- English horn,
- Pandean pipe,
- aulos,
- basset horn,
- basset oboe,
- block flute,
- bombard,
- bourdon,
- cello,
- claribel,
- clarinet,
- clarion,
- concert flute,
- contrabassoon,
- contrafagotto,
- cornet,
- cornopean,
- cromorna,
- cromorne,
- cymbel,
- diapason,
- double bassoon,
- double reed,
- dulciana,
- fife,
- fipple flute,
- flageolet,
- flute,
- flute stop,
- foundation stop,
- fourniture,
- gamba,
- gedeckt,
- gemshorn,
- harmonic flute,
- hautboy,
- heckelphone,
- hornpipe,
- hybrid stop,
- koppel flute,
- larigot,
- licorice stick,
- melodia,
- mixture,
- musette,
- mutation stop,
- nazard,
- oaten reed,
- oboe,
- oboe da caccia,
- ocarina,
- octave,
- organ stop,
- panpipe,
- penny-whistle,
- piccolo,
- pipe,
- plein jeu,
- pommer,
- posaune,
- principal,
- quint,
- quintaten,
- rank,
- ranket,
- recorder,
- reed,
- reed instrument,
- reed stop,
- register,
- rohr flute,
- sax,
- saxophone,
- sesquialtera,
- shawm,
- single reed,
- single-reed instrument,
- sonorophone,
- spitz flute,
- stop,
- stopped diapason,
- stopped flute,
- string diapason,
- string stop,
- sweet potato,
- syrinx,
- tabor pipe,
- tenoroon,
- tierce,
- tin-whistle,
- tremolo,
- trombone,
- trumpet,
- twelfth,
- unda maris,
- vibrato,
- viola,
- voix celeste,
- vox angelica,
- vox humana,
- whistle,
- woods,
- woodwind,
- woodwind choir,
- woodwind instrument
- English horn
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- a double-reed woodwind instrument similar to an oboe but lower in pitch related words >
- Pandean pipe,
- aulos,
- basset horn,
- basset oboe,
- bassoon,
- block flute,
- bombard,
- bourdon,
- cello,
- claribel,
- clarinet,
- clarion,
- concert flute,
- contrabassoon,
- contrafagotto,
- cornet,
- cornopean,
- cromorna,
- cromorne,
- cymbel,
- diapason,
- double bassoon,
- double reed,
- dulciana,
- fife,
- fipple flute,
- flageolet,
- flute,
- flute stop,
- foundation stop,
- fourniture,
- gamba,
- gedeckt,
- gemshorn,
- harmonic flute,
- hautboy,
- heckelphone,
- hornpipe,
- hybrid stop,
- koppel flute,
- larigot,
- licorice stick,
- melodia,
- mixture,
- musette,
- mutation stop,
- nazard,
- oaten reed,
- oboe,
- oboe da caccia,
- ocarina,
- octave,
- organ stop,
- panpipe,
- penny-whistle,
- piccolo,
- pipe,
- plein jeu,
- pommer,
- posaune,
- principal,
- quint,
- quintaten,
- rank,
- ranket,
- recorder,
- reed,
- reed instrument,
- reed stop,
- register,
- rohr flute,
- sax,
- saxophone,
- sesquialtera,
- shawm,
- single reed,
- single-reed instrument,
- sonorophone,
- spitz flute,
- stop,
- stopped diapason,
- stopped flute,
- string diapason,
- string stop,
- sweet potato,
- syrinx,
- tabor pipe,
- tenoroon,
- tierce,
- tin-whistle,
- tremolo,
- trombone,
- trumpet,
- twelfth,
- unda maris,
- vibrato,
- viola,
- voix celeste,
- vox angelica,
- vox humana,
- whistle,
- woods,
- woodwind,
- woodwind choir,
- woodwind instrument
- clarinet
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- a single-reed instrument with a straight tube related words >
- English horn,
- Pandean pipe,
- aulos,
- basset horn,
- basset oboe,
- bassoon,
- block flute,
- bombard,
- bourdon,
- cello,
- claribel,
- clarion,
- concert flute,
- contrabassoon,
- contrafagotto,
- cornet,
- cornopean,
- cromorna,
- cromorne,
- cymbel,
- diapason,
- double bassoon,
- double reed,
- dulciana,
- fife,
- fipple flute,
- flageolet,
- flute,
- flute stop,
- foundation stop,
- fourniture,
- gamba,
- gedeckt,
- gemshorn,
- harmonic flute,
- hautboy,
- heckelphone,
- hornpipe,
- hybrid stop,
- koppel flute,
- larigot,
- licorice stick,
- melodia,
- mixture,
- musette,
- mutation stop,
- nazard,
- oaten reed,
- oboe,
- oboe da caccia,
- ocarina,
- octave,
- organ stop,
- panpipe,
- penny-whistle,
- piccolo,
- pipe,
- plein jeu,
- pommer,
- posaune,
- principal,
- quint,
- quintaten,
- rank,
- ranket,
- recorder,
- reed,
- reed instrument,
- reed stop,
- register,
- rohr flute,
- sax,
- saxophone,
- sesquialtera,
- shawm,
- single reed,
- single-reed instrument,
- sonorophone,
- spitz flute,
- stop,
- stopped diapason,
- stopped flute,
- string diapason,
- string stop,
- sweet potato,
- syrinx,
- tabor pipe,
- tenoroon,
- tierce,
- tin-whistle,
- tremolo,
- trombone,
- trumpet,
- twelfth,
- unda maris,
- vibrato,
- viola,
- voix celeste,
- vox angelica,
- vox humana,
- whistle,
- woods,
- woodwind,
- woodwind choir,
- woodwind instrument
- grandiloquent
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- puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
- lofty in style; "he engages in so much tall talk, one never really realizes what he is saying" related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- affected,
- aggrandized,
- amplified,
- aureate,
- ballyhooed,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- bloated,
- bombastic,
- convoluted,
- declamatory,
- disproportionate,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- exaggerated,
- excessive,
- exorbitant,
- extravagant,
- extreme,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flatulent,
- flaunting,
- flowery,
- formal,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gassy,
- gaudy,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- hyperbolic,
- inflated,
- inkhorn,
- inordinate,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- magnified,
- magniloquent,
- meretricious,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overblown,
- overdone,
- overdrawn,
- overelaborate,
- overemphasized,
- overemphatic,
- overestimated,
- overgreat,
- overinvolved,
- overlarge,
- overpraised,
- oversold,
- overstated,
- overstressed,
- overwrought,
- pedantic,
- pompous,
- pontifical,
- pretentious,
- prodigal,
- profuse,
- puffed,
- rhetorical,
- self-important,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- showy,
- solemn,
- sonorous,
- stilted,
- stretched,
- stuffy,
- superlative,
- swollen,
- tall,
- tortuous,
- touted,
- tumid,
- turgid
- ostentatious
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- intended to attract notice and impress others; "an ostentatious sable coat"
- of a display that is tawdry or vulgar related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- affected,
- ambitious,
- arabesque,
- baroque,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- boastful,
- braggart,
- busy,
- chichi,
- classy,
- convoluted,
- declamatory,
- elaborate,
- elegant,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- fancy,
- fine,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flash,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- florid,
- flossy,
- flowery,
- frilly,
- fulsome,
- fussy,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- high-toned,
- high-wrought,
- highfalutin,
- highfaluting,
- inkhorn,
- labored,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- luxuriant,
- luxurious,
- magniloquent,
- meretricious,
- moresque,
- ornate,
- orotund,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overelegant,
- overinvolved,
- overlabored,
- overworked,
- overwrought,
- peacockish,
- peacocky,
- pedantic,
- picturesque,
- pompous,
- pretentious,
- pretty-pretty,
- rhetorical,
- rich,
- rococo,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- showy,
- sonorous,
- splashy,
- stilted,
- swank,
- tall,
- theatrical,
- tony,
- tortuous,
- vain,
- vainglorious,
- vaunting
- rhetorical
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- 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
- decorous
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- characterized by propriety and dignity and good taste in manners and conduct; "the tete-a-tete was decorous in the extreme" related words >
- Christian,
- accepted,
- according to Hoyle,
- acknowledged,
- admitted,
- appropriate,
- approved,
- au fait,
- becoming,
- befitting,
- being done,
- ceremonial,
- ceremonious,
- civil,
- civilized,
- comely,
- comme il faut,
- condign,
- conformable,
- conforming,
- conventional,
- correct,
- customary,
- de rigueur,
- decent,
- delicate,
- demure,
- dignified,
- done,
- due,
- earnest,
- elegant,
- felicitous,
- fit,
- fitting,
- formal,
- frowning,
- genteel,
- gentlemanly,
- good,
- grave,
- grim,
- grim-faced,
- grim-visaged,
- happy,
- hieratic,
- kosher,
- ladylike,
- liturgic,
- long-faced,
- mannerly,
- meet,
- modest,
- nice,
- normal,
- normative,
- orthodox,
- polished,
- polite,
- pompous,
- prim,
- proper,
- punctilious,
- received,
- recognized,
- refined,
- respectable,
- right,
- right and proper,
- righteous,
- rightful,
- rigid,
- ritual,
- ritualistic,
- sacerdotal,
- seasonable,
- sedate,
- seemly,
- serious,
- sober,
- sober-minded,
- sobersided,
- solemn,
- somber,
- staid,
- stately,
- stiff,
- stone-faced,
- straight-faced,
- stuffy,
- suitable,
- thoughtful,
- traditional,
- unsmiling,
- urbane,
- weighty,
- well-behaved,
- well-mannered
- 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
- 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
- cornet
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- a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves related words >
- English horn,
- alpenhorn,
- alphorn,
- althorn,
- alto horn,
- ballad horn,
- baritone,
- bass horn,
- bassoon,
- block flute,
- bombard,
- bourdon,
- brass choir,
- brass wind,
- brass-wind instrument,
- brasses,
- bugle,
- bugle horn,
- cello,
- claribel,
- clarinet,
- clarion,
- complex cone,
- concert flute,
- cone,
- conelet,
- conoid,
- cop,
- cornet-a-pistons,
- corno di caccia,
- cornopean,
- cromorna,
- cymbel,
- diapason,
- double-bell euphonium,
- dulciana,
- euphonium,
- flute stop,
- foundation stop,
- fourniture,
- funnel,
- gamba,
- gedeckt,
- gemshorn,
- harmonic flute,
- helicon,
- horn,
- hunting horn,
- hybrid stop,
- ice-cream cone,
- key trumpet,
- koppel flute,
- larigot,
- lituus,
- lur,
- mellophone,
- melodia,
- mixture,
- mutation stop,
- nazard,
- oboe,
- octave,
- ophicleide,
- orchestral horn,
- organ stop,
- piccolo,
- pine cone,
- plein jeu,
- pocket trumpet,
- posaune,
- post horn,
- principal,
- quint,
- quintaten,
- rank,
- ranket,
- reed stop,
- register,
- rohr flute,
- sackbut,
- saxhorn,
- saxtuba,
- serpent,
- sesquialtera,
- shawm,
- slide trombone,
- sliphorn,
- sousaphone,
- spitz flute,
- stop,
- stopped diapason,
- stopped flute,
- string diapason,
- string stop,
- tenor tuba,
- tierce,
- tremolo,
- tromba,
- trombone,
- trumpet,
- tuba,
- twelfth,
- unda maris,
- valve trombone,
- valve trumpet,
- vibrato,
- viola,
- voix celeste,
- vox angelica,
- vox humana
- gassy
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- resembling gas related words >
- aerial,
- aerodynamic,
- aerostatic,
- aery,
- airy,
- all jaw,
- big,
- bloated,
- blown up,
- bombastic,
- candid,
- chatty,
- communicative,
- conversational,
- dilated,
- distended,
- dropsical,
- edematous,
- effusive,
- enchymatous,
- ethereal,
- expansive,
- extravagant,
- fat,
- flatulent,
- flip,
- fluent,
- formal,
- frank,
- fuming,
- fumy,
- fustian,
- gabby,
- garrulous,
- gaseous,
- gasified,
- gasiform,
- gaslike,
- glib,
- gossipy,
- grandiloquent,
- gregarious,
- gushy,
- high-flown,
- high-swelling,
- highfalutin,
- highfaluting,
- incrassate,
- inflated,
- long-winded,
- loquacious,
- mephitic,
- miasmal,
- miasmatic,
- miasmic,
- mouthy,
- multiloquent,
- multiloquious,
- newsy,
- overtalkative,
- oxyacetylene,
- oxygenous,
- ozonic,
- plethoric,
- pneumatic,
- pompous,
- pontifical,
- pretentious,
- prolix,
- puffed up,
- puffy,
- pursy,
- reeking,
- reeky,
- self-important,
- smoking,
- smoky,
- smooth,
- sociable,
- solemn,
- steaming,
- steamy,
- stilted,
- stuffy,
- swelled,
- swollen,
- talkative,
- talky,
- tall,
- tumescent,
- tumid,
- turgescent,
- turgid,
- vaporing,
- vaporish,
- vaporlike,
- vaporous,
- vapory,
- ventose,
- verbose,
- voluble,
- windy
- flatulence
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- a state of excessive gas in the alimentary canal related words >
- Barnumism,
- aeriness,
- affectation,
- bedizenment,
- big talk,
- bloat,
- bloatedness,
- bloating,
- blowing up,
- convolution,
- diastole,
- dilatation,
- dilation,
- distension,
- dropsy,
- edema,
- ethereality,
- fart,
- flashiness,
- flatulency,
- flatuosity,
- flatus,
- fluidity,
- fulsomeness,
- garishness,
- gas,
- gaseity,
- gaseous state,
- gaseousness,
- gassiness,
- gaudiness,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- high-flown diction,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- intumescence,
- lexiphanicism,
- loftiness,
- luridness,
- magniloquence,
- mere rhetoric,
- meretriciousness,
- meteorism,
- orotundity,
- ostentation,
- ostentatious complexity,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomposity,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pontification,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- prose run mad,
- puff,
- puffiness,
- puffing,
- rhetoric,
- rhetoricalness,
- sensationalism,
- sententiousness,
- showiness,
- stiltedness,
- stretching,
- swell,
- swellage,
- swelling,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- tall talk,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- tumefaction,
- tumescence,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- turgidness,
- tympanism,
- tympany,
- vapor pressure,
- vaporiness,
- vaporousness,
- wind,
- windiness
- absolute,
- admitting no exception,
- all-out,
- arrogant,
- assured,
- believing,
- categorical,
- certain,
- clear,
- cocksure,
- complete,
- conclusive,
- confident,
- convinced,
- credulous,
- decided,
- decisive,
- definite,
- definitive,
- determinate,
- determined,
- devout,
- dogmatic,
- doting,
- doubtless,
- downright,
- easily taken in,
- easy of belief,
- entire,
- explicit,
- express,
- faithful,
- fideistic,
- final,
- fixed,
- flat,
- flat-out,
- fond,
- global,
- hubristic,
- implicit,
- impressed with,
- inappealable,
- inclined to believe,
- indisputable,
- infatuated,
- out-and-out,
- outright,
- overconfident,
- overconfiding,
- overcredulous,
- oversure,
- overtrustful,
- overtrusting,
- overweening,
- peremptory,
- perfect,
- persuaded,
- pietistic,
- pious,
- pistic,
- poised,
- pompous,
- positive,
- proud,
- reassured,
- round,
- satisfied,
- secure,
- self-assured,
- self-confident,
- self-important,
- self-reliant,
- sold on,
- straight,
- straight-out,
- superstitious,
- sure,
- total,
- trustful,
- trusting,
- unafraid,
- uncircumscribed,
- unconditional,
- unconditioned,
- uncritical,
- under the impression,
- undoubtful,
- unequivocal,
- unfaltering,
- unhampered,
- unhesitating,
- unlimited,
- unmistakable,
- unmitigated,
- unqualified,
- unquestioning,
- unreserved,
- unrestricted,
- unskeptical,
- unsuspecting,
- unsuspicious,
- unwaivable,
- unwavering,
- utter,
- whole,
- without exception,
- without reserve
- arrogant,
- assured,
- big,
- big-league,
- big-name,
- big-time,
- bigwig,
- bigwigged,
- bloated,
- bombastic,
- cocksure,
- complacent,
- conceited,
- confident,
- consequential,
- considerable,
- convinced,
- decided,
- determined,
- double-barreled,
- earthshaking,
- egotistical,
- flatulent,
- formal,
- gassy,
- grand,
- grandiloquent,
- great,
- haughty,
- heavyweight,
- high-powered,
- hubristic,
- important,
- inflated,
- magisterial,
- major,
- material,
- momentous,
- name,
- narcissan,
- narcissine,
- narcissistic,
- narcistic,
- overbearing,
- overconfident,
- overproud,
- oversure,
- overweening,
- persuaded,
- poised,
- pompous,
- pontifical,
- positive,
- presumptuous,
- proud,
- puffy,
- reassured,
- secure,
- self-absorbed,
- self-admiring,
- self-approving,
- self-assuming,
- self-assured,
- self-complacent,
- self-confident,
- self-congratulating,
- self-congratulatory,
- self-content,
- self-contented,
- self-delighting,
- self-endeared,
- self-esteeming,
- self-gratulating,
- self-gratulatory,
- self-loving,
- self-reliant,
- self-respecting,
- self-satisfied,
- self-seeking,
- self-sufficient,
- significant,
- smug,
- snobbish,
- snooty,
- snotty,
- solemn,
- stilted,
- stuck-up,
- stuffy,
- substantial,
- superior,
- sure,
- swollen,
- tumid,
- turgid,
- unafraid,
- undoubting,
- unfaltering,
- unhesitating,
- unwavering,
- vain,
- vainglorious,
- world-shaking
- forced
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- made necessary by an unexpected situation or emergency; "a forced landing"
- forced or compelled; "promised to abolish forced labor"
- produced by or subjected to forcing; "forced-air heating"; "furnaces of the forced-convection type"; "forced convection in plasma generators" related words >
- Herculean,
- Latinate,
- affected,
- arduous,
- artificial,
- at odds,
- automatic,
- averse,
- awkward,
- backbreaking,
- blind,
- bombastic,
- burdensome,
- calculated,
- coerced,
- compelled,
- compulsive,
- conditioned,
- constrained,
- contrived,
- cramped,
- crushing,
- cumbrous,
- cursory,
- differing,
- disagreeing,
- disinclined,
- disobedient,
- distant,
- effortful,
- elephantine,
- exhausting,
- factitious,
- faked,
- false,
- farfetched,
- fatiguing,
- feigned,
- formal,
- fractious,
- grueling,
- guinde,
- halting,
- hard-earned,
- hard-fought,
- heavy,
- hefty,
- improbable,
- impulsive,
- indisposed,
- indocile,
- inflexible,
- inkhorn,
- instinctive,
- involuntary,
- killing,
- labored,
- laborious,
- leaden,
- lumbering,
- mannered,
- mechanical,
- mutinous,
- onerous,
- operose,
- opposed,
- oppressive,
- out-of-the-way,
- painful,
- perfunctory,
- pompous,
- ponderous,
- punishing,
- quite another thing,
- recalcitrant,
- reflex,
- reflexive,
- refractory,
- remote,
- resistant,
- rigid,
- self-conscious,
- sesquipedalian,
- something else again,
- stiff,
- stilted,
- strained,
- strenuous,
- studied,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- toilsome,
- tough,
- troublesome,
- turgid,
- unconscious,
- unconsenting,
- unintentional,
- unnatural,
- unthinking,
- unwieldy,
- unwilled,
- unwilling,
- unwitting,
- uphill,
- wearisome,
- 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
- kit
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- young of any of various fur-bearing animals; "a fox kit"
- gear consisting of a set of articles or tools for a specified purpose
- a case for containing a set of articles related words >
- A string,
- Amati,
- Cheshire cat,
- Chinchilla cat,
- Cremona,
- D string,
- E string,
- G string,
- Maltese cat,
- Strad,
- Stradivari,
- Stradivarius,
- accouterments,
- alley cat,
- apparatus,
- appliances,
- appointments,
- appurtenances,
- armament,
- bass,
- bass viol,
- battery,
- birdling,
- block,
- blue cat,
- bow,
- bridge,
- bull fiddle,
- calf,
- calico cat,
- cat,
- catling,
- cello,
- chick,
- chickling,
- chicky,
- colt,
- contrabass,
- conveniences,
- crowd,
- cub,
- dogie,
- double bass,
- duckling,
- duffel,
- equipage,
- equipment,
- facilities,
- facility,
- fawn,
- feline,
- fiddle,
- fiddlebow,
- fiddlestick,
- fingerboard,
- fittings,
- fixtures,
- fledgling,
- foal,
- fryer,
- furnishings,
- furniture,
- gear,
- gib,
- gib-cat,
- gosling,
- grimalkin,
- house cat,
- impedimenta,
- implements,
- installations,
- instruments,
- kid,
- kit fiddle,
- kit violin,
- kitling,
- kitten,
- kitty,
- kitty-cat,
- lamb,
- lambkin,
- litter,
- machinery,
- materiel,
- mouser,
- munition,
- munitions,
- nest,
- nestling,
- outfit,
- pack,
- paraphernalia,
- piglet,
- pigling,
- plant,
- plumbing,
- polliwog,
- pullet,
- pup,
- puppy,
- puss,
- pussy,
- pussycat,
- rig,
- rigging,
- scroll,
- series,
- set,
- shoat,
- silver cat,
- soundboard,
- stock-in-trade,
- string,
- suit,
- suite,
- supplies,
- tabby,
- tabby cat,
- tackle,
- tadpole,
- tenor violin,
- things,
- tiger cat,
- tom,
- tomcat,
- tools,
- tortoise-shell cat,
- trappings,
- tuning peg,
- utensils,
- viola,
- violin,
- violinette,
- violoncello,
- violoncello piccolo,
- violone,
- violotta,
- weaner,
- whelp,
- yeanling
- ceremonial
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- marked by pomp or ceremony or formality; "a ceremonial occasion"; "ceremonial garb" related words >
- High-Church,
- august,
- baccalaureate service,
- baptismal,
- buckram,
- celebration,
- celebratory,
- ceremonious,
- ceremoniousness,
- ceremony,
- commemorative,
- commencement,
- conventional,
- convocation,
- courtly,
- decorous,
- dignified,
- dignity,
- duty,
- empty formality,
- eucharistic,
- exercise,
- exercises,
- extrinsicality,
- form,
- form of worship,
- formal,
- formality,
- formalization,
- formula,
- formular,
- formulary,
- function,
- graduation,
- graduation exercises,
- gravity,
- hieratic,
- holy rite,
- impersonality,
- imposing,
- inaugural,
- inauguration,
- initiation,
- institution,
- liturgic,
- liturgical,
- liturgistic,
- liturgy,
- lofty,
- mannered,
- mode of worship,
- mummery,
- mystery,
- observance,
- office,
- order of worship,
- ordinance,
- paschal,
- performance,
- pomp,
- pomposity,
- pompous,
- practice,
- prescribed form,
- primness,
- religious ceremony,
- rigid,
- rigidness,
- rite,
- rite de passage,
- rite of passage,
- ritual,
- ritual observance,
- ritualistic,
- rituality,
- sacerdotal,
- sacrament,
- sacramental,
- sacramentarian,
- service,
- set,
- solemn,
- solemnity,
- solemnization,
- starchiness,
- starchy,
- stately,
- stiff,
- stiffness,
- stiltedness,
- studied,
- stylization,
- stylized,
- weight,
- well-mannered
- labored
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- lacking natural ease; "a labored style of debating" related words >
- Herculean,
- Latinate,
- affected,
- alliterating,
- alliterative,
- arabesque,
- arduous,
- artificial,
- assonant,
- awkward,
- backbreaking,
- baroque,
- belabored,
- bombastic,
- burdensome,
- busy,
- chanting,
- chichi,
- chiming,
- cliche-ridden,
- clumsy,
- contrived,
- cramped,
- crushing,
- cumbrous,
- difficult,
- dingdong,
- effortful,
- elaborate,
- elegant,
- elephantine,
- excessive,
- fancy,
- farfetched,
- fine,
- flamboyant,
- florid,
- flowery,
- forced,
- formal,
- frilly,
- fussy,
- grueling,
- guinde,
- halting,
- hard,
- hard-earned,
- hard-fought,
- harping,
- heavy,
- hefty,
- high-wrought,
- humdrum,
- inept,
- inkhorn,
- jingle-jangle,
- jog-trot,
- killing,
- laborious,
- leaden,
- lumbering,
- luxuriant,
- luxurious,
- maladroit,
- monotone,
- monotonous,
- moresque,
- onerous,
- operose,
- oppressive,
- ornate,
- ostentatious,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overelegant,
- overlabored,
- overworked,
- overwrought,
- painful,
- picturesque,
- pompous,
- ponderous,
- pretty-pretty,
- punishing,
- rhymed,
- rhyming,
- rich,
- rococo,
- sesquipedalian,
- singsong,
- stiff,
- stilted,
- strained,
- strenuous,
- tedious,
- toilsome,
- tough,
- troublesome,
- turgid,
- unnatural,
- unwieldy,
- uphill,
- wearisome,
- weighty
- 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
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