magniloquent

  • 91pedantic — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, academic, accordant, affected, anal, arid, bedizened, bibliophagic, big sounding, bluestocking, book fed, book learned, book loving, book minded, book read, book wise, bookish, booky, bourgeois …

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  • 92pompous — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, Latinate, affected, arrogant, assured, aureate, awkward, bedizened, big sounding, bloated, boastful, bombastic, braggart, ceremonial, ceremonious, cocksure, conceited, confident, conventional,… …

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  • 93pretentious — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Gongoristic, Johnsonian, Marinistic, affected, ambitious, arrogant, artificial, arty, aureate, bedizened, big, big sounding, bombastic, chichi, classy, convoluted, declamatory, elaborate, elaborated,… …

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  • 94rhetorical — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, articulate, artificial, aureate, bedizened, big sounding, bombastic, chichi, contrived, convoluted, declamatory, elevated, elocutionary, eloquent, embellished, euphuistic, exaggerated …

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  • 95sensational — Synonyms and related words: Barnumesque, Gongoresque, Johnsonian, acid, affected, amazing, arresting, astonishing, astounding, bedizened, beguiling, bewildering, big sounding, biting, blatant, brazen, brazenfaced, breathtaking, cloak and dagger,… …

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  • 96sententious — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, Spartan, abbreviated, abridged, admonitory, advisory, affected, allegorical, aphoristic, aposiopestic, associational, axiomatic, bedizened, big sounding, brief, brusque, cautionary, clipped,… …

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  • 97showy — Synonyms and related words: Byzantine, Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, arabesque, baroque, bedizened, big sounding, brave, bravura, braw, chichi, conspicuous, convoluted, daring, dashing, declamatory, dressy, elaborate, elevated, euphuistic,… …

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  • 98sonorous — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, achingly sweet, affected, agreeable, agreeable sounding, appealing, ariose, arioso, aureate, bedizened, big sounding, bombastic, booming, canorous, cantabile, catchy, clangorous, clattery,… …

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  • 99stilted — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, Latinate, affected, artificial, aureate, awkward, bedizened, big sounding, bloated, bombastic, buckram, cardboard, clumsy, conventional, convoluted, cramped, cumbrous, declamatory, decorous,… …

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  • 100swelling — Synonyms and related words: abscess, access, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, addition, advance, aggrandizement, amplification, aposteme, appreciation, ascent, augmentation, aureate, bagging, baggy, ballooning, bed sore,… …

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