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

Example sentences :

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

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