Declamatory - English meaning

adjective

(of a person, action, or idea) showing a willingness to take risks; confident and courageous.

Usage examples:

A bold attempt to solve the crisis

noun

A bold typeface or letter.

Usage examples:

Shadow cabinet members listed in bold

adjective

Brave, or without fear

Usage examples:

He is a qualified politician with bold ideas., she was friendly without being bold., the costumes w…

adjective

High-sounding but with little meaning; inflated.

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Bombastic rhetoric

adjective

Relating to drama or the performance or study of drama.

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The dramatic arts

adjective

Relating to plays and acting

Usage examples:

He’s as good in comedies as he is in dramatic roles., in a dramatic rescue, 10 crewmen were lifted …

adjective

Involving many carefully arranged parts or details; detailed and complicated in design and planning.

Usage examples:

Elaborate security precautions

verb

Develop or present (a theory, policy, or system) in further detail.

Usage examples:

The theory was proposed by cope and elaborated by osborn

adjective

Containing a lot of connected parts or many complicated details

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An elaborate ceremony, an elaborate fireworks display, they had created elaborate computer programs…

adjective

Lacking restraint in spending money or using resources.

Usage examples:

It was rather extravagant to buy both

adjective

More expensive than is necessary or reasonable, or having the characteristics of being expensive

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Company executives enjoyed an extravagant lifestyle., top athletes are showered with extravagant gi…

adjective

Spending or costing a lot of money

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Severe cuts in public spending mean that demands for extravagant pay rises are no longer realistic.…

adjective

Having a red or flushed complexion.

Usage examples:

A stout man with a florid face

adjective

Too red, esp. in a way that is unhealthy

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A florid complexion, a florid architectural style, florid prose/speech

adjective

Covered with flowers or having a floral design.

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A flowery meadow

adjective

Covered with pictures of flowers

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A flowery blouse

adjective

Pompous or extravagant in language, style, or manner, especially in a way that is intended to impress.

Usage examples:

A grandiloquent celebration of spanish glory

adjective

A grandiloquent style or way of using language is complicated in order to attract admiration and attention, especially in order to make someone or something seem important

Usage examples:

Her speech was full of grandiloquent language, but it contained no new ideas.

adjective

High-flown language, ideas, or behaviour is meant to make you admire someone.

adjective

Of imposing height.

Usage examples:

The elegant square was shaded by lofty palms

adjective

High

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Lofty mountains, lofty sentiments

adjective

Using high-flown or bombastic language.

Usage examples:

I had no idea ‘if you will ‘was supposed to be a magniloquent term in the 2000s, according to flemi…

adjective

A magniloquent style or way of using language is complicated, especially in order to make someone or something seem intelligent or important.

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The reporters ridiculed her magniloquent speeches., good writing is never very good if it is magnil…

adjective

A magniloquent style or way of using language is complicated, especially in order to make someone or something seem intelligent or important.

Usage examples:

The reporters ridiculed her magniloquent speeches., good writing is never very good if it is magnil…

adjective

Relating to the art or practice of public speaking.

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Oratorical skills

adjective

Connected with skilful and effective public speaking

Usage examples:

Oratorical skill, she has a wonderful oratorical style, with a splendid command of english.

adjective

Elaborately or highly decorated.

Usage examples:

An ornate wrought-iron railing

adjective

Having a lot of decoration

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Ornate jewelry/buildings

preposition

Extending directly upwards from.

Usage examples:

I saw flames over berlin

noun

Expressing passage or trajectory across an area.

Usage examples:

He leant over and tapped me on the hand

prefix

Excessively; to an unwanted degree.

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Overambitious

adjective

Made to seem more impressive or important than is the case; exaggerated or pretentious.

Usage examples:

His most rhetorically overblown screenplay

adjective

Made to seem more important or bigger than what is really true

Usage examples:

As for the wage gap, davis says it's overblown.

adjective

(of food) overcooked.

Usage examples:

He sat there chewing his overdone steak

verb

Do, use, or carry to excess; exaggerate.

Usage examples:

She rather overdoes the early cockney scenes

adjective

(esp. of meat) cooked too long

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The steak was dry and overdone.

adjective

Too ripe; past its best.

Usage examples:

Overripe tomatoes

adjective

Too ripe and starting to decay

adjective

Relating to or concerned with the art of rhetoric.

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Repetition is a common rhetorical device

adjective

Rhetorical speech or writing is intended to seem important or influence people

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Repetition, that tedious rhetorical device

adjective

Relating to acting, actors, or the theatre.

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Theatrical productions

noun

A professional actor or actress.

Usage examples:

A boarding house that catered for theatricals

noun

Dramatic performances.

Usage examples:

I was persuaded to act in some amateur theatricals