Declamatory

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Declamatory \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.
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     2. Characterized by rhetorical display; pretentiously
        rhetorical; without solid sense or argument; bombastic;
        noisy; as, a declamatory way or style.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  declamatory
       adj : ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk";
             "tumid political prose" [syn: {bombastic}, {large}, {orotund},
              {tumid}, {turgid}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  55 Moby Thesaurus words for "declamatory":
     Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, aureate, bedizened,
     big-sounding, bombastic, convoluted, elevated, elocutionary,
     eloquent, euphuistic, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flaunting,
     flowery, forensic, fulsome, garish, gaudy, grandiloquent,
     grandiose, grandisonant, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying,
     high-sounding, highfalutin, inkhorn, 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