n. Function: noun
pretentious inflated speech or writing FF1C; adolescent bombast about Youth and Destiny FF1E;
Synonyms: fustian, highfalutin, rant, rhapsody, rhetoric, rodomontade
Related Words: grandiloquence, magniloquence; flatulence, orotundity, tumidity, turgidity; heroics, pyrotechnics, sesquipedality; Johnsonese; spread-eagleism; nonsense
Idioms: purple prose