big-sounding
adjective
Roget 855:
affected,
full of affectation,
pretentious,
pedantic,
stilted,
stagy,
theatrical,
big-sounding,
ad captandum;
canting,
insincere.
not natural,
unnatural;
self-conscious;
maniere;
artificial;
overwrought,
overdone,
overacted;
euphuist
etc.
577.
stiff,
starch,
formal,
prim,
smug,
demure,
tire a quatre epingles,
quakerish,
puritanical,
prudish,
pragmatical,
priggish,
conceited,
coxcomical,
foppish,
dandified;
finical,
finikin;
mincing,
simpering,
namby-pamby,
sentimental.
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Roget 404:
loud,
sonorous;
high-sounding,
big-sounding;
deep,
full,
powerful,
noisy,
blatant,
clangorous,
multisonous†;
thundering,
deafening
etc.
v.;
trumpet-tongued;
ear-splitting,
ear-rending,
ear-deafening;
piercing;
obstreperous,
rackety,
uproarious;
enough to wake the dead,
enough to wake seven sleepers.
shrill
etc.
410
clamorous
etc.
(vociferous)
411
stentorian,
stentorophonic†.
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Roget 577:
ornament
etc.
v.;
beautified
etc.
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
etc.
521;
artificial
etc.
(inelegant)
579.
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