given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought
<adj.all>
sample sentences
"mere rhetorical frippery"
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
antonym
semantic pointers
also see
similar to
bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid
flowery, ornate
empurpled, over-embellished, purple
forensic
grandiloquent, magniloquent, tall
oratorical
poetic, poetical
stylistic
