| 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: | inflated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exaggerated |
Synonyms: |
aggrandized, amplified, augmented, aureate, bloated, bombastic, diffuse, dilated, distended, dropsical, enlarged, euphuistic, extended, filled, flatulent, flowery, fustian, grandiloquent, grown, magnified, magniloquent, ostentatious, overblown, overestimated, pompous, pretentious, prolix, puffed, pumped up, ranting, rhapsodical, rhetorical, showy, spread, stretched, surcharged, swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgid, verbose, windy, wordy |
Antonyms: |
deflated, shrunken |
| Main Entry: | ostentatious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flashy, showy |
Synonyms: |
boastful, chichi*, classy, conspicuous, crass*, dashing, egotistic, exhibitionistic, extravagant, flamboyant, flatulent, flaunted, fussy, garish, gaudy, gay, glittery, grandiose, highfaluting, jaunty, loud, obtrusive, peacocky, pompous, pretentious, spectacular, splashy, splurgy, sporty, swank, swanky*, theatrical, tinsel, tony, uptown, vain, vulgar |
Antonyms: |
modest, plain, quiet, reserved |
| Main Entry: | pompous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | arrogant, egotistic |
Synonyms: |
affected, bloated, boastful, bombastic, conceited, flatulent, flaunting, flowery, fustian, grandiloquent, grandiose, high and mighty, high-flown, highfaluting, imperious, important, inflated, magisterial, magniloquent, narcissistic, orotund, ostentatious, overbearing, overblown, pontifical, portentous, presumptuous, pretentious, puffed up, puffy, rhetorical, self-centered, self-important, selfish, showy, sonorous, stuck-up, supercilious, turgid, uppity, vain, vainglorious, windy |
Antonyms: |
dull, modest, plain, simple, unassuming |
| Main Entry: | wordy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | talkative |
Synonyms: |
bombastic, chatty, diffuse, discursive, flatulent, gabby, garrulous, inflated, lengthy, long-winded, loquacious, palaverous, pleonastic, prolix, rambling, redundant, rhetorical, tedious, turgid, verbose, voluble, windy |
Antonyms: |
concise, untalkative |
| Main Entry: | periphrastic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wordy |
Synonyms: |
bombastic, chatty, diffuse, discursive, flatulent, gabby, garrulous, inflated, lengthy, long-winded, loquacious, palaverous, pleonastic, prolix, rambling, redundant, rhetorical, tedious, turgid, verbose, voluble, windy |
| Main Entry: | pleonastic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wordy |
Synonyms: |
bombastic, chatty, diffuse, discursive, flatulent, gabby, garrulous, inflated, lengthy, long-winded, loquacious, palaverous, periphrastic, prolix, rambling, redundant, rhetorical, tedious, turgid, verbose, voluble, windy |
| Main Entry: | puffed-up |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pompous |
Synonyms: |
affected, bloated, boastful, bombastic, conceited, flatulent, flaunting, flowery, fustian, grandiloquent, grandiose, high and mighty, high-flown, highfaluting, hoity-toity, imperious, important, inflated, magisterial, magniloquent, narcissistic, orotund, ostentatious, overbearing, overblown, pontifical, portentous, presumptuous, pretentious, puffed up, puffy, rhetorical, self-centered, self-important, selfish, showy, sonorous, stuck-up, supercilious, turgid, uppity, vain, vainglorious, windy |