high-sounding

  • 71ostentatious — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, ambitious, arabesque, baroque, bedizened, big sounding, boastful, braggart, busy, chichi, classy, convoluted, declamatory, elaborate, elegant, elevated, euphuistic, fancy, fine,… …

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  • 72fulsome — Synonyms and related words: Fescennine, Gongoresque, Johnsonian, Rabelaisian, abhorrent, abject, abominable, adulatory, affected, arrant, atrocious, awful, bad, bad smelling, barfy, base, bawdy, beastly, bedizened, beggarly, below contempt,… …

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  • 73overelaborate — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Gongoristic, Johnsonian, Marinistic, affected, arabesque, artificial, baroque, bedizened, big sounding, busy, chichi, convoluted, declamatory, elaborate, elaborated, elegant, elevated, euphuistic, fancy,… …

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  • 74overwrought — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, aggrandized, amplified, arabesque, ballyhooed, baroque, bedizened, big sounding, busy, chichi, convoluted, declamatory, disproportionate, distracted, edgy, elaborate, elegant,… …

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  • 75pompous — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, Latinate, affected, arrogant, assured, aureate, awkward, bedizened, big sounding, bloated, boastful, bombastic, braggart, ceremonial, ceremonious, cocksure, conceited, confident, conventional,… …

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  • 76stilted — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, Latinate, affected, artificial, aureate, awkward, bedizened, big sounding, bloated, bombastic, buckram, cardboard, clumsy, conventional, convoluted, cramped, cumbrous, declamatory, decorous,… …

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  • 77Loudness — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Loudness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 loudness loudness power Sgm: N 1 loud noise loud noise din Sgm: N 1 blare blare Sgm: N 1 clang clang clangor Sgm: N 1 clatter …

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  • 78Ostentation — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Ostentation >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 ostentation ostentation display show flourish parade etalage pomp array state solemnity Sgm: N 1 dash dash splash sp …

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  • 79Johnsonian — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, affected, bedizened, big sounding, convoluted, declamatory, elevated, euphuistic, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flaunting, fulsome, garish, gaudy, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, high flowing, high… …

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  • 80affected — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Gongoristic, Johnsonian, Marinistic, Tartuffian, Tartuffish, afflicted, agonized, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, attacked, awkward, bastard, bedizened, big sounding, bogus, brummagem, canting, chichi,… …

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