flowery+speech
121ornate — ornate, rococo, baroque, flamboyant, florid can all mean elaborately and often pretentiously decorated or designed. Ornate is applicable to anything heavily adorned or ornamented or conspicuously embellished {an ornate style of architecture} {the …
122ornate — adj 1. elaborate, involved, busy; fussy, frilly; baroque, rococo, arabesque. 2. elegant, fine, fancy; rich, lush, luxurious, luxuriant, sumptuous; brilliant, dazzling, glittering; gilt, begilt. 3. labored, richly wrought, highly wrought; overdone …
123purple — n 1. lilac, lavender, mauve; orchid, plum, violet. 2. eminence, importance, significance; nobility, aristocracy, blue blood, noble birth, silver spoon; majesty, royalty, kingship; the thrown, the crown, the scepter. adj 3. purplish, perse; lilac …
124rhetoric — [n] wordiness; long speech address, balderdash*, big talk*, bombast, composition, discourse, elocution, eloquence, flowery language, fustian, grandiloquence, hot air*, hyperbole, magniloquence, oration, oratory, pomposity, rant, verbosity;… …
125rhetorical — [adj] wordy; flowery in speech articulate, aureate, bombastic, declamatory, eloquent, embellished, euphuistic, exaggerated, flamboyant, flashy*, florid, fluent, glib*, grand, grandiloquent, grandiose, high flown, hyperbolic, imposing, inflated,… …
126bombastic — [bäm bas′tik] adj. using or characterized by high sounding but unimportant or meaningless language; pompous; grandiloquent bombastically adv. SYN. BOMBASTIC refers to speech or writing that is pompous and inflated and suggests extravagant verbal… …
127couch — [kouch] n. [ME & OFr couche, a bed, lair: see COUCH the vt.] 1. an article of furniture on which one may sit or lie down; sofa; divan 2. any resting place 3. Old Poet. a place for sleeping; bed 4. Obs. an animal s lair or den 5. Brewi …
128or|nate´ness — or|nate «awr NAYT», adjective. 1. much adorned; much ornamented: »She likes ornate furniture. SYNONYM(S): elaborate, showy, sumptuous. 2. characterized by the use of elaborate figures of speech, flowery language, and the like: »an ornate style of …
