Pretentious (especially with regard to language or ideals):
— A high-sounding dissertation on the means to attain social revolution.
synonyms: high-flown, inflated.
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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Roget 882:
ostentatious,
showy,
dashing,
pretentious;
janty†,
jaunty;
grand,
pompous,
palatial;
high-sounding;
turgid
etc.
(big-sounding)
577;
gairish†,
garish;
gaudy,
gaudy as a peacock,
gaudy as a butterfly,
gaudy as a tulip;
flaunting,
flashing,
flaming,
glittering;
gay
etc.
(ornate)
847.
splendid,
magnificent,
sumptuous.
theatrical,
dramatic,
spectacular;
ceremonial,
ritual.
solemn,
stately,
majestic,
formal,
stiff,
ceremonious,
punctilious,
starched.
dressed to kill,
dressed to the nines,
decjed out,
all decked out,
en granite tenue [Fr.],
in best bib and tucker,
in Sunday best,
endimanch_e,
chic.
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