Johnsonian

2 definitions found

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

  Johnsonian \John*so"ni*an\, a.
     Pertaining to or resembling Dr. Johnson or his style;
     pompous; inflated.
     [1913 Webster]

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



  48 Moby Thesaurus words for "Johnsonian":
     Gongoresque, affected, bedizened, big-sounding, convoluted,
     declamatory, elevated, euphuistic, flamboyant, flaming, flashy,
     flaunting, fulsome, garish, gaudy, grandiloquent, grandiose,
     grandisonant, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding,
     highfalutin, inkhorn, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty, lurid,
     magniloquent, meretricious, orotund, ostentatious, overdone,
     overelaborate, overinvolved, overwrought, pedantic, pompous,
     pretentious, rhetorical, sensational, sensationalistic,
     sententious, showy, sonorous, stilted, tall, tortuous