LEXIPHANIC

Meaning of LEXIPHANIC in English

(a.) Using, or interlarded with, pretentious words; bombastic; as, a lexiphanic writer or speaker; lexiphanic writing.

Webster's English dictionary. Английский словарь Webster. 2012

LEXIPHANIC — |leksə|fanik adjective Etymology: Lexiphan es (bombastic speaker in the dialogue Lexiphanes by Lucian, 2d century A.D. Greek satirist) + English …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
LEXIPHANIC — ( a. ) Using, or interlarded with, pretentious words; bombastic; as, a lexiphanic writer or speaker; lexiphanic writing.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
LEXIPHANIC — adj. bombastic; sesquipedalian, tending to use very long words; integrated with haughty words
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LEXIPHANIC — adj using, or interlarded with, pretentious words; bombastic; as, a lexiphanic writer or speaker; lexiphanic writing.
Webster English vocab
TORTUOUS — Synonyms and related words : Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, ambagious, ambiguous, anamorphous, anfractuous, askew, asymmetric, bedizened, bent, big-sounding, billowing, billowy, bowed, …
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TALL — Synonyms and related words : Gongoresque, Johnsonian, a bit thick, a bit thin, a mile long, absurd, affected, altitudinous, bedizened, …
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STILTED — Synonyms and related words : Gongoresque, Johnsonian, Latinate, affected, artificial, aureate, awkward, bedizened, big-sounding, bloated, bombastic, buckram, cardboard, clumsy, conventional, …
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SONOROUS — Synonyms and related words : Gongoresque, Johnsonian, achingly sweet, affected, agreeable, agreeable-sounding, appealing, ariose, arioso, aureate, bedizened, big-sounding, bombastic, booming, …
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SHOWY
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SENTENTIOUS — Synonyms and related words : Gongoresque, Johnsonian, Spartan, abbreviated, abridged, admonitory, advisory, affected, allegorical, aphoristic, aposiopestic, associational, axiomatic, bedizened, big-sounding, …
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SENSATIONAL — Synonyms and related words : Barnumesque, Gongoresque, Johnsonian, acid, affected, amazing, arresting, astonishing, astounding, bedizened, beguiling, bewildering, big-sounding, biting, blatant, …
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RHETORICAL — Synonyms and related words : Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, articulate, artificial, aureate, bedizened, big-sounding, bombastic, chichi, contrived, convoluted, declamatory, elevated, elocutionary, …
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PRETENTIOUS — Synonyms and related words : Gongoresque, Gongoristic, Johnsonian, Marinistic, affected, ambitious, arrogant, artificial, arty, aureate, bedizened, big, big-sounding, bombastic, chichi, …
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POMPOUS — Synonyms and related words : Gongoresque, Johnsonian, Latinate, affected, arrogant, assured, aureate, awkward, bedizened, big-sounding, bloated, boastful, bombastic, braggart, ceremonial, …
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PEDANTIC — Synonyms and related words : Gongoresque, Johnsonian, academic, accordant, affected, anal, arid, bedizened, bibliophagic, big-sounding, bluestocking, book-fed, book-learned, book-loving, book-minded, …
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OVERWROUGHT — Synonyms and related words : Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, aggrandized, amplified, arabesque, ballyhooed, baroque, bedizened, big-sounding, busy, chichi, convoluted, declamatory, disproportionate, …
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OVERELABORATE — Synonyms and related words : Gongoresque, Gongoristic, Johnsonian, Marinistic, affected, arabesque, artificial, baroque, bedizened, big-sounding, busy, chichi, convoluted, declamatory, elaborate, …
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OVERDONE — Synonyms and related words : Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, aggrandized, amplified, artificial, ballyhooed, bedizened, bien cuit, big-sounding, convoluted, declamatory, disproportionate, done, …
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OSTENTATIOUS — Synonyms and related words : Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, ambitious, arabesque, baroque, bedizened, big-sounding, boastful, braggart, busy, chichi, classy, convoluted, declamatory, …
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OROTUND — Synonyms and related words : Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, bedizened, big-sounding, convoluted, declamatory, elevated, euphuistic, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flaunting, fulsome, garish, …
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MERETRICIOUS — Synonyms and related words : Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, apparent, bedizened, beggarly, beneath contempt, big-sounding, blatant, brazen, brazenfaced, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, …
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LURID — Synonyms and related words : Barnumesque, Fescennine, Gongoresque, Johnsonian, Rabelaisian, Titian, Titian-red, achromatic, achromic, affected, aglow, anemic, appalling, ashen, ashy, …
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LOFTY — Synonyms and related words : Gongoresque, Johnsonian, Olympian, aerial, affected, aggrandized, airy, altitudinous, ambitious, analytic, analytical, apotheosized, aristocratic, arrogant, ascending, …
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LABYRINTHINE — Synonyms and related words : Byzantine, Gongoresque, Johnsonian, aberrant, aberrative, affected, ambagious, anamorphous, anfractuous, askew, asymmetric, balled up, bedizened, bent, …
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HIGHFALUTIN — Synonyms and related words : Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, ambitious, arrogant, aureate, bedizened, big, big-sounding, bombastic, classy, condescending, convoluted, declamatory, domineering, …
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HIGH SOUNDING — Synonyms and related words : Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, alto, bedizened, big-sounding, convoluted, declamatory, elevated, euphuistic, falsetto, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flaunting, …
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HIGH FLYING — Synonyms and related words : Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, ambitious, aspiring, bedizened, big-sounding, careerist, careeristic, classy, convoluted, declamatory, elevated, euphuistic, fancy, …
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HIGH FLOWN — Synonyms and related words : Gongoresque, Johnsonian, absurd, affected, aggrandized, ambitious, amplified, arrogant, ballyhooed, bedizened, beyond belief, big, big-sounding, bizarre, …
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GRANDIOSE — Synonyms and related words : Babylonian, Corinthian, Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, ambitious, august, awe-inspiring, awful, barbaric, bedizened, big-sounding, bombastic, convoluted, cosmic, …
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GRANDILOQUENT — Synonyms and related words : Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, aggrandized, amplified, aureate, ballyhooed, bedizened, big-sounding, bloated, bombastic, convoluted, declamatory, disproportionate, elevated, …
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GAUDY — Synonyms and related words : Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, bedizened, beggarly, beneath contempt, big-sounding, blatant, blinding, brazen, brazenfaced, brummagem, cheap, cheesy, …
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