Sonorous Synonyms

sŏnər-əs, sə-nôr-
Characterized by language that is elevated and sometimes pompous in style
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. aureate
  2. bombastic
  3. declamatory
  4. flowery
  5. fustian
  6. grandiloquent
  7. high-flown
  8. high-sounding
  9. magniloquent
  10. orotund
  11. overblown
  12. rhetorical
  13. swollen
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Sonorous Sentence Examples

  • It is a sonorous speech, pleasant to the ear.

  • In person he was tall and had a long beard; his voice was sonorous, and his eyes flashed fire.

  • Similarly, bell-metal is harder, more sonorous and more brittle than either of its components.

  • His clear voice was not so sonorous as his gigantic frame would suggest.

  • The modern Nubian tongue, clearly the descendant of the Nubian of the MSS., is very sonorous and expressive.

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