ornament

Roget-categorie 577

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.10. Means of communicating ideas
›› 4.10.2. Conventional means

#577. Ornament

zelfstandig naamwoord

ornament — floridness c^†.
adj.. turgidity, turgescence^† — altiloquence etc. adj.^† — declamation, teratology^† — well-rounded periods — elegance etc. 578 — orotundity.
inversion, antithesis, alliteration, paronomasia — figurativeness etc. (metaphor) 521.
flourish — flowers of speech, flowers of rhetoric — frills of style, euphuism^†, euphemism.
big-sounding words, high-sounding words — macrology^†, sesquipedalia verba [Lat.], Alexandrine — inflation, pretension — rant, bombast, fustian, prose run mad — fine writing — sesquipedality^† — Minerva press.
phrasemonger — euphuist^†, euphemist.

werkwoord

ornament, overlay with ornament, overcharge — smell of the lamp.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

ornament etc. v. — beautified etc. 847 — ornate, florid, rich, flowery — euphuistic^†, euphemistic — sonorous — high-sounding, big-sounding — inflated, swelling, tumid — turgid, turgescent — pedantic, pompous, stilted — orotund — high flown, high flowing — sententious, rhetorical, declamatory — grandiose — grandiloquent, magniloquent, altiloquent^† — sesquipedal^†, sesquipedalian — Johnsonian, mouthy — bombastic — fustian — frothy, flashy, flaming.
antithetical, alliterative — figurative etc. 521 — artificial etc. (inelegant) 579.

bijwoord

ore rutundo [Lat.].

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