Declamatory

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  • adjective. Having the quality of a declamation.
  • adjective. Pretentiously rhetorical; bombastic.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to the practice of declaiming in oratory or music; having the character of declamation.
  • Merely rhetorical; stilted; straining after effect: as, a declamatory style.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Pertaining to declamation; treated in the manner of a rhetorician.
  • adjective. Characterized by rhetorical display; pretentiously rhetorical; without solid sense or argument; bombastic; noisy.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. having the quality of a declamation.
  • adjective. pretentiously lofty in style; bombastic.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. ostentatiously lofty in style
    • Word Usage
    "With Lawes, then, what we may call the declamatory branch of the English school culminated."
    Equivalent
    rhetorical  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    argumentative  boastful  bombastic  didactic  elegiac  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Gongoresque  Johnsonian  affected  aureate  bedizened  
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