1.
[syn: bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
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2. Characterized by rhetorical display; pretentiously
rhetorical; without solid sense or argument; bombastic;
noisy; as, a declamatory way or style.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
declamatory
adj 1: ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large
talk"; "tumid political prose" [syn: bombastic,
declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid]