adjective
emphasizing style often at the expense of thought
the candidate was given to windy rhetorical speeches
Synonyms: aureate, bombastic, declamatory, euphuistic, florid, flowery, grandiloquent, highfalutin, high-flown, magniloquent, ||mouthy, oratorical, orotund, overblown, pompous, purple, sonorous, stilted, swelling, swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgid
Related Word: chichi, orchidaceous, ostentatious, pretentious, showy; gassy, inflated, windy; exaggerated, overdone, overwrought; grand, grandiose, high-sounding, imposing; flamboyant, ornate; embellished; articulate, eloquent, fluent, glib, vocal, voluble
Contrasted words: homely, literal, plain, simple, unpretentious; unadorned, undecorated, unembellished, ungarnished, unornamented
Antonyms: unrhetorical