Rhetoric synonyms
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Grandiloquence
A long and formal treatment of a subject, in speech or writing; lecture; treatise; dissertation
A work of music, literature, or art, or its structure or organization.
Public speaking marked by the use of overblown rhetoric.
euphuism (related)
Affected elegance of language.
Using high-flown, pompous, bombastic words and expressions
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A formal speech, especially one given on a ceremonial occasion.
Talk or writing that sounds grand or important but has little meaning; pompous language
high-flown language
Grandiloquence
eloquence (related)
The art or manner of such speech or writing
The definition of bombastic is important-sounding language that is meaningless.
Pretentiously lofty in style; bombastic.
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Effective in expressing meaning by speech
The definition of forensic is something that is usable in a court of law.
Using or characterized by mere rhetoric, or artificial eloquence; showy and elaborate in style
rubescent
Becoming red; specif., blushing or flushing
Style or manner of speaking or reading in public
The condition of being flamboyant
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The quality of being pompous; ostentation; self-importance
(Uncountable) The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the ability to speak or to use vocalizations to communicate.
The use of a word or words in a figurative sense
conciseness (antonym)
The property of being concise, succinctness.
The act or art of declaiming
words (related)
The art of public speaking
Palaver is defined as charming talk, or chatter.
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loud and confused and empty talk
The state of being grandiose (pompous or pretentious).
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
The state of being ornate
Pompous or bombastic speech or expression.
ideology (related)
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radicalism (related)
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polemic (related)
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idealism (related)
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triumphalism (related)
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