About The Word Declamatory
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Declamatory
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What's The Definition Of Declamatory?
[adj] ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Declamatory: bombastic | large | orotund | rhetorical | tumid | turgid Related Terms | Find terms related to Declamatory: 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 See Also | Declamatory In Webster's Dictionary \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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