Thesaurus / euphuistic
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synonyms for euphuistic
- bloated
- magnified
- overblown
- swollen
- aggrandized
- amplified
- augmented
- diffuse
- dilated
- distended
- enlarged
- extended
- filled
- grown
- overestimated
- puffed
- ranting
- spread
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- surcharged
- aureate
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- rhetorical
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- tumid
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- windy
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- aureate
- big
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- chichi
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- utopian
- vainglorious
- high-sounding
- la-di-da
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- swank
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- overambitious
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- too-too
- oratorical
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- rhetorical
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- wooden
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- grandiose
- rhapsodic
- histrionic
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- orotund
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- big-talking
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- overwrought
- prolix
- purple
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- rococo
- sonorous
- swollen
- verbose
- windy
- wordy
- embellished
- ornamented
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How to use euphuistic in a sentence
They are known at a later period to have acted some of Lily's Euphuistic plays, and one of Middleton's.
OLD AND NEW LONDONWALTER THORNBURYThe book has given a word to the language; that affected word-placing style is known as euphuistic.
THE WORLD'S BEST BOOKSFRANK PARSONSHere the pompous antithesis is evidently meant to caricature the peculiar Euphuistic sentence of court parlance.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 17, SLICE 2VARIOUSArbasto cannot cease gazing at her; he addresses to himself euphuistic speeches several pages long, but they do him no good.
THE ENGLISH NOVEL IN THE TIME OF SHAKESPEAREJ. J. JUSSERANDThey were careful by choosing appropriate titles for their novels to publicly connect themselves with the euphuistic cycle.
THE ENGLISH NOVEL IN THE TIME OF SHAKESPEAREJ. J. JUSSERANDHe is euphuistic in his style, wise in his advice to his readers, and a great admirer of his own country.
THE ENGLISH NOVEL IN THE TIME OF SHAKESPEAREJ. J. JUSSERANDPerverted symmetry of style is found in euphuistic hacks like Pettie.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 9, SLICE 6VARIOUSEverybody speaks Euphuism, though classical allusion alone is not essentially Euphuistic.
THE BIBLIOTAPHLEON H. VINCENTThe word may have been chosen for the euphuistic jingle it makes here with 'senses.'
THE NEW HUDSON SHAKESPEARE: JULIUS CAESARWILLIAM SHAKESPEAREThe dialogue is less euphuistic, and therefore much more effective.
JOHN LYLYJOHN DOVER WILSONWORDS RELATED TO EUPHUISTIC
- aggrandized
- amplified
- augmented
- aureate
- bloated
- bombastic
- diffuse
- dilated
- distended
- dropsical
- enlarged
- euphuistic
- extended
- filled
- flatulent
- flowery
- fustian
- grandiloquent
- grown
- magnified
- magniloquent
- ostentatious
- overblown
- overestimated
- pompous
- pretentious
- prolix
- puffed
- pumped up
- ranting
- rhapsodical
- rhetorical
- showy
- spread
- stretched
- surcharged
- swollen
- tumescent
- tumid
- turgid
- verbose
- windy
- wordy
- affected
- arty
- assuming
- aureate
- big
- bombastic
- chichi
- conspicuous
- euphuistic
- exaggerated
- extravagant
- feigned
- flamboyant
- flashy
- flaunting
- flowery
- gaudy
- grandiloquent
- grandiose
- high-flown
- high-sounding
- highfaluting
- hollow
- imposing
- inflated
- jazzy
- la-di-da
- lofty
- magniloquent
- mincing
- ornate
- ostentatious
- overambitious
- overblown
- pompous
- puffed up
- put-on
- rhetorical
- showy
- specious
- splashy
- stilted
- swank
- too-too
- tumid
- turgid
- utopian
- vainglorious
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