Meaning of DECLAMATORY
| Pronunciation: | | di'klamu`towree
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| | Definition: | | [adj] ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose" |
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| | Synonyms: | | bombastic, large, orotund, rhetorical, tumid, turgid |
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| | Definition: | | \De*clam"a*to*ry\, a. [L. declamatorius: cf. F.
d['e]clamatoire.]
1. Pertaining to declamation; treated in the manner of a
rhetorician; as, a declamatory theme.
2. Characterized by rhetorical display; pretentiously
rhetorical; without solid sense or argument; bombastic;
noisy; as, a declamatory way or style.
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| | Related Terms: | | affected, aureate, bedizened, big-sounding, bombastic, convoluted, elevated, elocutionary, eloquent, euphuistic, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flaunting, flowery, forensic, fulsome, garish, gaudy, Gongoresque, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, highfalutin, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, inkhorn, Johnsonian, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty, lurid, magniloquent, meretricious, oratorical, orotund, ostentatious, overdone, overelaborate, overinvolved, overwrought, pedantic, pompous, pretentious, rhetorical, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, showy, sonorous, stilted, tall, tortuous |
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