| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | Pretentious, pompous speech or writing: bombast, claptrap, grandiloquence, magniloquence, orotundity, rant, turgidity. See PLAIN, STYLE, WORDS. | | ADJECTIVE: | Characterized by language that is elevated and sometimes pompous in style: aureate, bombastic, declamatory, flowery, grandiloquent, high-flown, high-sounding, magniloquent, orotund, overblown, rhetorical, sonorous, swollen. See PLAIN, STYLE, WORDS.
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