| Main Entry: | orotund |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ostentatious |
Synonyms: |
bombastic, clear, loud, pompous, resonant, resounding, rich, showy, sonorous, stentorian |
| Main Entry: | bombastic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pompous, grandiloquent |
Synonyms: |
aureate, balderdash, big-talking, declamatory, euphuistic, flowery, full of hot air, fustian, grandiose, high-flown, highfalutin, histrionic, inflated, loudmouthed, magniloquent, orotund, ostentatious, overblown, ranting, rhapsodic, rhetorical, sonorous, stuffed shirt, swollen, tumid, turgid, verbose, windbag, windy, wordy |
Antonyms: |
humble, quiet, reserved, restrained |
| 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: | 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: | resonant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vibrant in sound |
Synonyms: |
beating, booming, clangorous, consonant, deep, deep-toned, earsplitting, echoing, electrifying, enhanced, full, heightened, intensified, loud, mellow, noisy, orotund, plangent, powerful, profound, pulsating, pulsing, resounding, reverberant, reverberating, rich, ringing, roaring, round, sonorant, sonorous, stentorian, strident, thrilling, throbbing, thundering, thunderous |
Antonyms: |
faint, quiet |
| Main Entry: | round |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | resonant, rich in sound |
Synonyms: |
consonant, full, mellifluous, orotund, plangent, resounding, ringing, rotund, sonorous, vibrant |
Antonyms: |
low, soft, weak |
| Main Entry: | sweet |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nice-sounding |
Synonyms: |
dulcet, euphonic, euphonious, harmonious, mellifluous, mellow, melodic, melodious, musical, orotund, rich, rotund, silver-tongued, silvery, smooth, soft, sonorous, soothing, sweet-sounding, tuneful |
Antonyms: |
cacophonous, discordant, ugly |
| 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: | turgid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bombastic |
Synonyms: |
grandiloquent, grandiose, inflated, orotund, ostentatious, overblown, pompous, pretentious, stuffy, tumid |
Antonyms: |
humble, modest, quiet, reserved, self-effacing |
| Main Entry: | stentorian |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very loud |
Synonyms: |
blaring, loud, orotund, resounding, sonorous |