List of antonyms from "etiolation" to antonyms from "evacuate"


Discover our 231 antonyms available for the terms "etiquette, euphuism, eulogy, eunuchize, eugenic, eulogizings" and many more. Click on one of the words below and go directly to the antonyms associated with it.

Definition of the day : « 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