Thesaurus:fustian
English edit
Noun edit
Sense: high-sounding, pompous writing or speech edit
Synonyms edit
- aureation
- bombard phrase (obsolete)
- bombast (figuratively)
- fustian
- grandiloquence
- highfalutin (archaic)
- magniloquence
- purple prose (idiomatic)
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Further reading edit
- “577. ornament” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “fustian” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.