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Antonyms for euphuistic
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : yoo-fyoo-iz-uh m |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈyu fyuˌɪz əm |
Definition of euphuistic
- As in inflated : adj exaggerated
- As in overblown : adj excessive, too much
- As in pretentious : adj snobbish, conceited
- As in rhetorical : adj wordy; flowery in speech
- As in stilted : adj artificial, pretentious
- As in bombastic : adj pompous, grandiloquent
- As in florid : adj very elaborate
- As in flowery : adj ornate, especially referring to speech or writing
- It might just as well be said that Shakespeare's lords and ladies were not euphuistic enough.
- Extract from : « Suspended Judgments » by John Cowper Powys
- Men of letters admired the euphuistic phrases and despised their author.
- Extract from : « Darkness and Dawn » by Frederic W. Farrar
- Find examples of Euphuistic hyperbole in iv, of alliteration in xiv.
- Extract from : « Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I » by Edmund Spenser
- But his language has certainly the merit of doing more justice to his subject than that of his euphuistic predecessors.
- Extract from : « Thomas Otway » by Thomas Otway
- She was the social leader of Morningside Park, and in her superficial and euphuistic way an extremely kind and pleasant woman.
- Extract from : « Ann Veronica » by H. G. Wells
- They are known at a later period to have acted some of Lily's Euphuistic plays, and one of Middleton's.
- Extract from : « Old and New London » by Walter Thornbury
- The book has given a word to the language; that affected word-placing style is known as euphuistic.
- Extract from : « The World's Best Books » by Frank Parsons
- Here the pompous antithesis is evidently meant to caricature the peculiar Euphuistic sentence of court parlance.
- Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 17, Slice 2 » by Various
- They were careful by choosing appropriate titles for their novels to publicly connect themselves with the euphuistic cycle.
- Extract from : « The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare » by J. J. Jusserand
- He is euphuistic in his style, wise in his advice to his readers, and a great admirer of his own country.
- Extract from : « The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare » by J. J. Jusserand
Synonyms for euphuistic
- affected
- aggrandized
- amplified
- angular
- articulate
- arty
- assuming
- augmented
- aureate
- balderdash
- baroque
- big
- big-talking
- bloated
- bombastic
- busy
- chichi
- conspicuous
- constrained
- declamatory
- decorative
- decorous
- diffuse
- dilated
- disproportionate
- distended
- dropsical
- egotistic
- eloquent
- embellished
- enlarged
- euphemistic
- euphuistic
- exaggerated
- extended
- extravagant
- fancy
- feigned
- figurative
- filled
- flamboyant
- flashy
- flatulent
- flaunting
- florid
- flowery
- fluent
- forced
- formal
- full of hot air
- fulsome
- fussy
- fustian
- garnished
- gaudy
- genteel
- glib
- grand
- grandiloquent
- grandiose
- grown
- high-flown
- high-sounding
- highfalutin
- highfaluting
- histrionic
- hollow
- hyped up
- hyperbolic
- immoderate
- imposing
- inflated
- jazzy
- la-di-da
- labored
- lofty
- loudmouthed
- luscious
- magnified
- magniloquent
- mincing
- mouthy
- oratorical
- ornamental
- ornamented
- ornate
- orotund
- ostentatious
- overambitious
- overblown
- overdone
- overestimated
- overwrought
- pedantic
- pompous
- pretentious
- prim
- profuse
- prolix
- puffed
- puffed up
- pumped up
- purple
- put-on
- ranting
- redundant
- rhapsodic
- rhapsodical
- rhetorical
- rich
- rococo
- showy
- silver-tongued
- sonorous
- specious
- splashy
- spread
- stiff
- stilted
- stretched
- stuffed shirt
- superfluous
- surcharged
- swank
- swollen
- too-too
- tumescent
- tumid
- turgid
- undue
- unnatural
- utopian
- vainglorious
- verbose
- vocal
- voluble
- windbag
- windy
- wooden
- wordy
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