Fustian Synonyms

fŭschən
Pretentious, pompous speech or writing
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. bombast
  2. claptrap
  3. rant
  4. grandiloquence
  5. ranting
  6. magniloquence
  7. orotundity
  8. pomposity
  9. turgidity
  10. blah
Characterized by language that is elevated and sometimes pompous in style
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. aureate
  2. bombastic
  3. declamatory
  4. flowery
  5. grandiloquent
  6. high-flown
  7. high-sounding
  8. magniloquent
  9. orotund
  10. overblown
  11. rhetorical
  12. sonorous
  13. swollen
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Words Related to Fustian

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Fustian Sentence Examples

  • The once considerable manufacture of fustian has declined.

  • Coal and salt are raised, and the other industries include fustian, towel, couch, chair and nail factories, iron and brass foundries, stone quarries and corn mills.

  • Jean, said to be derived from Genoa where a kind of fustian with this title was made, is a kind of twilled cloth.

  • Jacob Bright was educated at the Ackworth school of the Society of Friends, and was apprenticed to a fustian manufacturer at New Mills.

  • It was used as the headquarters of the fustian weavers during their strike in 1906-7.

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