Ostentatiously lofty in style.

synonyms: bombastic, large, orotund, tumid, turgid.

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.    ... show more

Roget 582: speaking &c.; spoken etc. v.; oral, lingual, phonetic, not written, unwritten, outspoken; eloquent, elocutionary; oratorical, rhetorical; declamatory; grandiloquent etc. 577; talkative etc. 584; Ciceronian, nuncupative, Tullian.    ... show more

Roget 584: loquacious, talkative, garrulous, linguacious^†, multiloquous^†; largiloquent^†; chattering etc. v.; chatty etc. (sociable) 892; declamatory etc. 582; open-mouthed.    fluent, voluble, glib, flippant; long tongued, long winded etc. (diffuse) 573.    ... show more