adj.. turgidity, turgescence†; altiloquence &c adj.†; declamation,
teratology†; well-rounded periods; elegance &c 578; orotundity.
inversion, antithesis, alliteration, paronomasia; figurativeness
&c (metaphor) 521.
flourish; flowers of speech, flowers of rhetoric; frills of style,
euphuism†, euphemism.
big-sounding words, high-sounding words; macrology†, sesquipedalia
verba [Lat.], Alexandrine; inflation, pretension; rant, bombast,
fustian, prose run mad; fine writing; sesquipedality†; Minerva press.
phrasemonger; euphuist†, euphemist.
V. ornament, overlay with ornament, overcharge; smell of the lamp.
Adj. ornament &c v.; beautified &c 847; ornate, florid, rich, flowery;
euphuistic†, euphemistic; sonorous; high-sounding, big-sounding;
inflated, swelling, tumid; turgid, turgescent; pedantic, pompous,
stilted; orotund; high flown, high flowing; sententious, rhetorical,
declamatory; grandiose; grandiloquent, magniloquent, altiloquent†;
sesquipedal†, sesquipedalian; Johnsonian, mouthy; bombastic; fustian;
frothy, flashy, flaming.
antithetical, alliterative; figurative &c 521; artificial &c
(inelegant) 579.
Adv. ore rutundo [Lat.].