flowery+speech
111device — Synonyms and related words: AM receiver, AM tuner, AM FM receiver, AM FM tuner, CB, Charlie McCarthy, Fathometer, Flexowriter typewriter, Geiger counter, John Hancock, RDF, X, X ray microscope, ability, achievement, action, ad hoc measure, agency …
112euphuism — Synonyms and related words: Gongorism, affectation, affectedness, artfulness, artifice, artificiality, asiaticism, device, elegance, euphemism, exquisiteness, figurative language, figurativeness, figure, figure of speech, floridity, flourish,… …
113flower — Synonyms and related words: Chinese lantern, Christmas rose, Eglantine, acacia, advance, androecium, anther, arrowhead, asiaticism, aster, attain majority, axiom, azalea, batten, bead, bear fruit, bejewel, beribbon, bespangle, best, bleeding… …
114image — Synonyms and related words: Doppelganger, Vorstellung, abstract, abstraction, adumbrate, affectation, affectedness, airs, airs and graces, allusion, ally, altarpiece, alter ego, analogon, analogue, angle, apparition, appearance, apprehension,… …
115imagery — Synonyms and related words: Vorstellung, allusion, alphabet, apparition, art, asiaticism, blueprint, brainchild, bubble, cameo, catalog, cataloging, character, character sketch, charactering, characterization, chart, chimera, choreography,… …
116verbose — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. wordy, prolix, repetitive, talkative. See diffuseness. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. wordy, prolix, tedious, tautologous, redundant, repetitious, circumlocutory, repetitive, periphrastic, abounding in …
117elegant — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [ Said of personal surroundings ] Syn. rich, tasteful, classic, restrained, graceful, luxurious, sumptuous, opulent, fine, chic, posh*, classy*, tony*, ritzy*; see also beautiful 1 , dignified . 2. [ Said of persons ] Syn …
118fustian — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. bombast, ranting, pomposity; see euphuism , wordiness . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. bombastic, pompous, pretentious, extravagant, grandiose, lofty. ANT.: understated, low key III (Roget s Thesaurus II) I noun… …
119orotund — I (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. 1. resounding sonorous, booming, resonant, projecting, stentorian, reverberating, thundering, powerful, mighty, rich. 2. grandiose in speech pompous, bombastic, fustian, bloated, grandiloquent. see oration, voice… …
120grandiloquently — adv. in a flowery manner, in a pompous fashion (of speech or writing) …
