Word Meanings - MAGNILOQUENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality of being magniloquent; pompous discourse; grandiloquence.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MAGNILOQUENCE)

• Altiloquence
• Bombast
• inflatedness
• turgidity
• euphuism
• magniloquence

Related words: (words related to MAGNILOQUENCE)

• BOMBAST
  a doublet of cotton; hence, padding, wadding, fustian. See 1. Originally, cotton, or cotton wool. A candle with a wick of bombast. Lupton. 2. Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding. How now, my sweet
• MAGNILOQUENCE
  The quality of being magniloquent; pompous discourse; grandiloquence.
• EUPHUISM
  An affectation of excessive elegance and refinement of language; high-flown diction.
• BOMBASTRY
  Swelling words without much meaning; bombastic language; fustian. Bombastry and buffoonery, by nature lofty and light, soar highest of all. Swift.
• BOMBASTIC; BOMBASTICAL
  Characterized by bombast; highsounding; inflated. -- Bom*bas"tic*al*ly, adv. A theatrical, bombastic, windy phraseology. Burke. Syn. -- Turgid; tumid; pompous; grandiloquent.
• TURGIDITY
  The quality or state of being turgid.
• ALTILOQUENCE
  Lofty speech; pompous language. Bailey.