| Main Entry: | grandiloquence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bombast |
Synonyms: |
boastful, claptrap, eloquence, fustian, grandiosity, magniloquence, orotundity, rant, turgidity |
| Notes: | magniloquence refers to a language that is lofty and extravagant, whereas grandiloquence refers to a language that is pompous or bombastic |
| Main Entry: | boast |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | brag; source of pride |
Synonyms: |
avowal, bluster, bombast, braggadocio, bravado, exaggeration, gasconade, grandiloquence, heroics, joy, pretension, pride, pride and joy, self-satisfaction, swank, treasure, vaunt |
Antonyms: |
deprecation, modesty |
| Main Entry: | eloquence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | skillful way with words |
Synonyms: |
ability, appeal, articulation, command of language, delivery, diction, dramatic, expression, expressiveness, expressivity, facility, fervor, flow, fluency, force, forcefulness, gift of gab, grandiloquence, loquacity, meaningfulness, mellifluousness, oration, oratory, passion, persuasiveness, poise, power, rhetoric, spirit, style, vigor, vivacity, volubility, wit, wittiness |
Antonyms: |
dullness, inarticulateness |
| Main Entry: | euphemism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nice way of saying something |
Synonyms: |
circumlocution, delicacy, floridness, grandiloquence, inflation, pomposity, pretense, purism |
| Notes: | dysphemism is the substitution of a disagreeable word or phrase for a neutral or positive one (also a word or phrase so substituted); it is the opposite of euphemism |
| Main Entry: | oratory |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | public speaking |
Synonyms: |
articulation, declamation, diction, elocution, eloquence, grandiloquence, rhetoric, speaking, speech, speechifying, speechmaking |
| Main Entry: | rhetoric |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wordiness; long speech |
Synonyms: |
address, balderdash, big talk, bombast, composition, discourse, elocution, eloquence, flowery language, fustian, grandiloquence, hot air, hyperbole, magniloquence, oration, oratory, pomposity, rant, verbosity |
Antonyms: |
conciseness |
| Main Entry: | euphuism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inflation |
Synonyms: |
Gongorism, bombast, delicacy, floridness, fustian, grandiloquence, pomposity, purism, rhetoric, wordiness |
| Main Entry: | garrulity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | loquacity |
Synonyms: |
chattiness, garrulousness, glibness, grandiloquence, logorrhea, long-windedness, loquaciousness, prolixity, talkativeness, verboseness, verbosity, volubility, wordiness |
| Main Entry: | magniloquence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pomposity |
Synonyms: |
boastful, bombast, eloquence, grandiloquence, grandiosity |
| Main Entry: | profuseness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | verbosity |
Synonyms: |
grandiloquence, prolixity, verbiage, wordiness |