| Main Entry: | oratorical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rhetorical |
Synonyms: |
bombastic, declamatory, dramatic, elaborate, elocutionary, eloquent, expressive, fervid, forceful, gesticulative, gesturing, grandiloquent, histrionic, impassioned, important, imposing, inflated, intoning, lofty, long-winded, loud, noble, noisy, orotund, ostentatious, persuasive, pompous, senatorial, stagy, stentorian, stylistic, theatrical, tumid, verbose, vivid |
Antonyms: |
natural, simple, undramatic |
| Main Entry: | oratorical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | characteristic of oratory |
Synonyms: |
articulate, declamatory, eloquent, rhetorical |
| Main Entry: | flatulent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pretentious, long-winded |
Synonyms: |
bombastic, inflated, oratorical, overblown, pompous, prolix, shallow, superficial, swollen, tedious, tumescent, tumid, turgid, windy, wordy |
Antonyms: |
brief, unpretentious |
| Main Entry: | grandiloquent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pretentious, flowery (communication) |
Synonyms: |
aureate, big-talking, bombastic, declamatory, euphistic, fustian, high-flown, histrionic, inflated, magniloquent, oratorical, orotund, overblown, pompous, purple*, rhetorical, sonorous, swollen, tall-talking, verbose, windbag, windy |
| Notes: | grandiloquent means lofty in style, pompous, or bombastic; magniloquent means lofty and extravagant in speech |
Antonyms: |
plain, simple, unadorned, unpretentious |
| Main Entry: | overblown |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | excessive, too much |
Synonyms: |
aureate, bombastic, disproportionate, euphuistic, flowery, fulsome, grandiloquent, hyped up, immoderate, inflated, magniloquent, oratorical, overdone, pompous, pretentious, profuse, rhetorical, sonorous, superfluous, turgid, undue, verbose, windy |
Antonyms: |
underrated, undervalued |
| Main Entry: | redundant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | excessive; repetitious |
Synonyms: |
bombastic, de trop, diffuse, extra, extravagant, inessential, inordinate, iterating, long-winded, loquacious, oratorical, padded, palaverous, periphrastic, pleonastic, prolix, reiterating, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus, tautological, unnecessary, unwanted, verbose, wordy |
Antonyms: |
concise, essential, single, singular |
| Main Entry: | rhetorical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wordy; flowery in speech |
Synonyms: |
articulate, aureate, bombastic, declamatory, eloquent, embellished, euphuistic, exaggerated, flamboyant, flashy*, florid, fluent, glib*, grand, grandiloquent, grandiose, high-flown, hyperbolic, imposing, inflated, magniloquent, mouthy, oratorical, ornate, ostentatious, overblown, overdone, overwrought, pompous, pretentious, showy, silver-tongued, sonorous, stilted, swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgid, verbose, vocal, voluble, windy |
Antonyms: |
concise |
| Main Entry: | declamatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | eloquent |
Synonyms: |
elocutionary, fluent, formal, oratorical, rhetorical |
| Main Entry: | declamatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pompous |
Synonyms: |
bombastic, oratorical, stuffy, verbose, windy |
| Main Entry: | sententious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pompous |
Synonyms: |
bombastic, fustian, oratorical, ornate, pretentious, self-righteous, showy, turgid |