Ostentatiously lofty in style.

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

Roget 579: inelegant, graceless, ungraceful; harsh, abrupt; dry, stiff, cramped, formal, guinde [Fr.]; forced, labored; artificial, mannered, ponderous; awkward, uncourtly^†, unpolished; turgid etc. 577; affected, euphuistic^†; barbarous, uncouth, grotesque, rude, crude, halting; offensive to ears polite.    2. Spoken Language ... show more

Roget 641: redundant; too much, too many; exuberant, inordinate, superabundant, excessive, overmuch, replete, profuse, lavish; prodigal etc. 818; exorbitant; overweening; extravagant; overcharged etc. v.; supersaturated, drenched, overflowing; running over, running to waste, running down.    crammed to overflowing, filled to overflowing; gorged, ready to burst; dropsical, turgid, plethoric; obese etc. 194.    superfluous, unnecessary, needless, supervacaneous^†, uncalled for, to spare, in excess; over and above etc. (remainder) 40; de trop [Fr.]; adscititious etc. (additional) 37; supernumerary etc. (reserve) 636; on one's hands, spare, duplicate, supererogatory, expletive; un peu fort [Fr.].    ... show more

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.    ... show more

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

Abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas.

synonyms: intumescent, puffy, tumescent, tumid.

Roget 194: expanded, etc. v.; larger, etc. (large) etc. 192; swollen; expansive; wide open, wide spread; flabelliform^†; overgrown, exaggerated, bloated, fat, turgid, tumid, hypertrophied, dropsical; pot bellied, swag bellied^†; edematous, oedematous^†, obese, puffy, pursy^†, blowzy, bigswoln^†, distended; patulous; bulbous etc. (convex) 250; full blown, full grown, full formed; big etc. 192; abdominous^†, enchymatous^†, rhipidate^†; tumefacient^†, tumefying^†.    ... show more