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101ornate — adj 1. elaborate, involved, busy; fussy, frilly; baroque, rococo, arabesque. 2. elegant, fine, fancy; rich, lush, luxurious, luxuriant, sumptuous; brilliant, dazzling, glittering; gilt, begilt. 3. labored, richly wrought, highly wrought; overdone …
102inflated — adjective 1. enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness (Freq. 1) a hyperbolic style • Syn: ↑hyperbolic • Similar to: ↑increased • Derivationally related forms: ↑hyperbole …
103For a New Liberty — Infobox Book | name = For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto image caption = LvMI online e book edition cover author = Murray N. Rothbard country = United States of America language = English genre = Political philosophy publisher = Ludwig… …
104fustian — I adjective bombastic, declamatory, flatulent, gausape, grandiloquent, grandiose, high flown, high sounding, inflated, mouthy, orotund, pompous, pretentious, ranting, swollen, tumid, turgid II noun affectation, altiloquence, bombast, bombastic… …
105rhetorical — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. oratorical, bombastic, eloquent; see verbose . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. 1. expressive articulate, eloquent, fluent, persuasive, well said, *silver tongued. 2. grandiloquent magniloquent, bombastic, fustian,… …
106heroic — adj 1. brave, courageous, valiant, valorous, heroical, hero like, stout hearted, lionhearted, iron hearted, great hearted; virile, manly, manful, gallant, chivalrous, chivalric; intrepid, fearless, dauntless, aweless, dreadless, nervy, Sl. gutsy …
107orotund — adj 1.(all of the voice) strong, powerful, mighty; full, rich, mellifluous; deep, sonorous; resonant, resounding, reverberating, rolling, ringing; big, booming, thundering. 2.(all of a style of speaking) pompous, bombastic, fustian, grandiloquent …
108purple — n 1. lilac, lavender, mauve; orchid, plum, violet. 2. eminence, importance, significance; nobility, aristocracy, blue blood, noble birth, silver spoon; majesty, royalty, kingship; the thrown, the crown, the scepter. adj 3. purplish, perse; lilac …
109sententious — adj 1. pompous, bombastic, fustian, grandiloquent, grandiose, lofty, orotund, stilted; turgid, swollen, inflated, overblown, puffed up, Inf. windy, Inf. gassy; magniloquent, high flown, high sounding, Inf. .high falutin, big sounding, lexiphanic …
110bombastic — [bäm bas′tik] adj. using or characterized by high sounding but unimportant or meaningless language; pompous; grandiloquent bombastically adv. SYN. BOMBASTIC refers to speech or writing that is pompous and inflated and suggests extravagant verbal… …
