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  • 91fustian — n 1. bombast, rant, grandiosity, rodomontade, pomposity, magniloquence, grandiloquence; tumidity, turgidity, flatulence, Archaic. tympany; extravagance, high flown language, flowery speech, exaggerated language, overstatement, sesquipedality;… …

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  • 92euphuism — [yo͞o′fyo͞o iz΄əm] n. [< Euphues, fictitious character in two prose romances by John Lyly < Gr euphyēs, shapely, graceful < eu (see EU ) + phyē, growth < phyein, to grow (see BONDAGE) + ISM] 1. the artificial, affected, high flown… …

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  • 93heroic — adj. & n. adj. 1 a (of an act or a quality) of or fit for a hero. b (of a person) like a hero. 2 a (of language) grand, high flown, dramatic. b (of a work of art) heroic in scale or subject. 3 (of poetry) dealing with the ancient heroes. n. (in… …

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  • 94elevated — Synonyms and related words: Amtrak, Gongoresque, Johnsonian, L, Olympian, accelerated, aerial, affected, afflicted, aggrandized, airy, altitudinous, amplified, animated, apotheosized, ascending, aspiring, augmented, august, awesome, baggage train …

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  • 95haughty — Synonyms and related words: Olympian, aerial, airy, aloof, altitudinous, arrogant, ascending, aspiring, belittling, big, boastful, cavalier, clannish, cliquish, colossal, complacent, conceited, condescending, contemptuous, contumelious, derisive …

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  • 96highfalutin — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, ambitious, arrogant, aureate, bedizened, big, big sounding, bombastic, classy, condescending, convoluted, declamatory, domineering, elevated, euphuistic, extravagant, fancy,… …

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  • 97superior — Synonyms and related words: A per se, a cut above, above, above par, absolute, ace, ahead, appalling, arrogant, ascendant, astonishing, authoritarian, authoritative, authorized, autocratic, better, big, big league, big name, big time, bigwig,… …

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  • 98elevated — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Raised] Syn. aerial, towering, lofty, tall; see high 2 , raised 1 . 2. [Noble] Syn. exalted, sublime, dignified, eminent; see grand 2 , noble 1 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. lofty, exalted, noble, grand, eminent,… …

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  • 99big — Synonyms and related words: adult, aggrandized, ample, apotheosized, arrogant, arty, awash, awesome, awful, awfully, beatified, benevolent, big boy, big cheese, big noise, big shot, big league, big name, big time, bighearted, bigwig, bigwigged,… …

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  • 100exalted — Synonyms and related words: Olympian, aerial, aggrandized, airy, altitudinous, analysis, apotheosized, aristocratic, ascending, aspiring, assay, astral, audit, august, awesome, beaming, beatified, big, bighearted, blissful, blithe, blithesome,… …

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