Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Ornament

Nouns
  • ornament
  • floridness etc. adj.. turgidity, turgescence
  • altiloquence etc. adj.
  • declamation, teratology
  • well-rounded periods
  • elegance etc. Elegance
  • orotundity. inversion, antithesis, alliteration, paronomasia
  • figurativeness etc. (metaphor) Metaphor. flourish
  • flowers of speech, flowers of rhetoric
  • frills of style, euphuism, euphemism. big-sounding words, high-sounding words
  • macrology, Alexandrine
  • inflation, pretension
  • rant, bombast, fustian, prose run mad
  • fine writing
  • sesquipedality
  • Minerva press. phrasemonger
  • euphuist, euphemist.
Verbs
  • ornament, overlay with ornament, overcharge
  • smell of the lamp.
Adjectives
  • ornament etc. v.
  • beautified etc. Ornament
  • 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. Metaphor
  • artificial etc. (inelegant) Inelegance.