Thesaurus:fustian

Thesaurus

fustian

English

Noun

Sense: high-sounding, pompous writing or speech

Synonyms

• aureation
• bombard phrase (obsolete)
• bombast (figuratively)
• fustian
• grandiloquence
• highfalutin (archaic)
• magniloquence
• purple prose (idiomatic)

Hyponyms

• purple patch

Hypernyms

• talk    [⇒ thesaurus]
• writing

See also

• Thesaurus:nonsense

Further reading

• “577. ornament” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “fustian” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.