Be+turgid+or+bombastic
61turbid — turbid, turgid The two words are unrelated but both can describe the flowing of water in their literal meanings (turbid means ‘opaque and cloudy’ and turgid means ‘swollen and overflowing’), and both refer to styles of writing in their figurative …
62rhetorical — rhetorical, grandiloquent, magniloquent, aureate, flowery, euphuistic, bombastic are comparable when they mean emphasizing style often at the expense of thought. Rhetorical describes a style, discourse, passage, phrase, or word which, however… …
63inflated — I (bombastic) adjective altiloquent, altisonant, artificial, declamatory, flatulent, fustian, grandiloquent, high flown, high sounding, inflatus, magniloquent, mouthy, oratorical, ostentatious, overblown, pedantic, pompous, pretentious,… …
64flatulent — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. pretentious, bombastic, pompous; see bombastic , oratorical . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. 1. gassy windy. 2. pretentious pompous, windy, long winded, bombastic, verbose. III (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Filled… …
65tumid — tumidity, tumidness, n. tumidly, adv. /tooh mid, tyooh /, adj. 1. swollen, or affected with swelling, as a part of the body. 2. pompous or inflated, as language; turgid; bombastic. 3. seeming to swell; bulging. [1535 45; < L tumidus swollen,… …
66Islamic arts — Visual, literary, and performing arts of the populations that adopted Islam from the 7th century. Islamic visual arts are decorative, colourful, and, in religious art, nonrepresentational; the characteristic Islamic decoration is the arabesque.… …
67orotund — I adjective affected, artificial, blustering, bombastic, clear, declamatory, elocutionary, flatulent, forceful, full, fustian, grandiloquent, grandiose, high flown, histrionic, inflated, magniloquent, mellow, oratorical, pompous, presumptuous,… …
68puffy — a. 1. Swelled, swollen, tumid, turgid, puffed out, distended. 2. Bombastic, inflated, extravagant, turgid, tumid, pompous …
69tumid — a. 1. Swollen, swelled, enlarged, distended, puffed up, turgid. 2. Protuberant, swelling. 3. Bombastic, turgid, swelling, pompous, inflated, stilted, grandiloquent, declamatory, rhetorical, high flown, puffy, falsely sublime, grandiose, fustian,… …
70bombastically — adverb 1. in a turgid manner he lectured bombastically about his theories • Syn: ↑turgidly • Derived from adjective: ↑bombastic, ↑turgid (for: ↑turgidly) 2. in a gra …
