'Declamatory' definitions:
Definition of 'declamatory'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Declamatory'
From: GCIDE
- Declamatory \De*clam"a*to*ry\, a. [L. declamatorius: cf. F. d['e]clamatoire.]
- 1. Pertaining to declamation; treated in the manner of a rhetorician; as, a declamatory theme. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Characterized by rhetorical display; pretentiously rhetorical; without solid sense or argument; bombastic; noisy; as, a declamatory way or style. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'declamatory'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- affected,
- aureate,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- bombastic,
- convoluted,
- elevated,
- elocutionary,
- eloquent,
- euphuistic,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- flowery,
- forensic,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- Gongoresque,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- inkhorn,
- Johnsonian,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- meretricious,
- oratorical,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- pedantic,
- pompous,
- pretentious,
- rhetorical,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- showy,
- sonorous,
- stilted,
- tall,
- tortuous