English > ornateness: 2 senses > noun 1, communicationMeaning | High-flown style; excessive use of verbal / verbal ornamentation. |
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Example | "an excessive ornateness of language" |
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Synonyms | grandiosity, magniloquence, grandiloquence, rhetoric |
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Narrower | bombast, fustian, rant, claptrap, blah | pompous or pretentious talk or writing |
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flourish | A display of ornamental speech or language |
Broader | expressive style, style | A way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period |
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Spanish | altilocuencia, altisonancia, grandilocuencia, grandiloqüencia |
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Catalan | altiloqüència, altisonància, grandiloqüència |
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Adjectives | ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details |
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