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61Transposing instrument — A transposing instrument is a musical instrument for which written notes are read at a pitch different from the corresponding concert pitch, which a non transposing instrument, such as a piano, would play. Playing a written C on a transposing… …
62Ornament — I (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Ornament >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 ornament ornament Sgm: N 1 floridness c.adj floridness c.adj GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 turgidity turgidity turgescence Sgm: N 2 altiloquence altiloquence &c. >Adj …
63bombastic — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. pompous, declamatory, grandiloquent, orotund, lofty, inflated, grandiose, rhetorical, high sounding, high flown, fustian, flowery, florid, pretentious, ostentatious, overwrought, overblown, magniloquent, euphuistic,… …
64sonorous — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, achingly sweet, affected, agreeable, agreeable sounding, appealing, ariose, arioso, aureate, bedizened, big sounding, bombastic, booming, canorous, cantabile, catchy, clangorous, clattery,… …
65lofty — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, Olympian, aerial, affected, aggrandized, airy, altitudinous, ambitious, analytic, analytical, apotheosized, aristocratic, arrogant, ascending, aspiring, august, awesome, beatified, bedizened,… …
66elevated — Synonyms and related words: Amtrak, Gongoresque, Johnsonian, L, Olympian, accelerated, aerial, affected, afflicted, aggrandized, airy, altitudinous, amplified, animated, apotheosized, ascending, aspiring, augmented, august, awesome, baggage train …
67highfalutin — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, ambitious, arrogant, aureate, bedizened, big, big sounding, bombastic, classy, condescending, convoluted, declamatory, domineering, elevated, euphuistic, extravagant, fancy,… …
68pretentious — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Gongoristic, Johnsonian, Marinistic, affected, ambitious, arrogant, artificial, arty, aureate, bedizened, big, big sounding, bombastic, chichi, classy, convoluted, declamatory, elaborate, elaborated,… …
69tall — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, a bit thick, a bit thin, a mile long, absurd, affected, altitudinous, bedizened, beyond belief, big, big sounding, bombastic, bumper, colossal, considerable, convoluted, declamatory, doubtable …
70flamboyant — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, arabesque, baroque, bedazzling, bedizened, big sounding, blinding, bright, bright and shining, brilliant, busy, chichi, convoluted, dashing, dazzling, declamatory, decorated,… …
