- Affectedly grand or self-important
- Bombastic
- Displaying exaggerated self importance
- Foolishly grand in style
- Self-important
- Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur;
magnificent; as, a pompous procession.
- Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious; as,
pompous manners; a pompous style.
- Bombastic
- Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent
or expansive force; swelled; swollen; bloated; inflated; tumid; --
especially applied to an enlarged part of the body; as, a turgid limb;
turgid fruit.
- Swelling in style or language; vainly ostentatious;
bombastic; pompous; as, a turgid style of speaking.
- Bombastic speech
- Eloquence
- Oratory
- Pretentious speech
- The art of composition; especially, elegant composition
in prose.
- Oratory; the art of speaking with propriety, elegance,
and force.
- Hence, artificial eloquence; fine language or declamation
without conviction or earnest feeling.
- Swelling; protuberant.
- Inflated; bombastic.