sesquipedalian

  • 91polysyllable — Synonyms and related words: antonym, articulation, expression, free form, grandiloquence, hard word, homograph, homonym, homophone, jawbreaker, lexeme, lexiphanicism, linguistic form, locution, logos, long word, metonym, minimum free form,… …

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  • 92pompous — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, Latinate, affected, arrogant, assured, aureate, awkward, bedizened, big sounding, bloated, boastful, bombastic, braggart, ceremonial, ceremonious, cocksure, conceited, confident, conventional,… …

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  • 93ponderous — Synonyms and related words: Latinate, all thumbs, arid, awkward, barren, big, blah, blank, bloodless, blunderheaded, blundering, bombastic, boorish, boring, bulky, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, careless, characterless, clownish, clumsy,… …

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  • 94rhetorical — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, articulate, artificial, aureate, bedizened, big sounding, bombastic, chichi, contrived, convoluted, declamatory, elevated, elocutionary, eloquent, embellished, euphuistic, exaggerated …

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  • 95stiff — Synonyms and related words: Arab, Bowery bum, Latinate, a bit much, abandoned, abusive, adamant, adamantine, afflictive, alcoholic, all thumbs, aloof, arduous, arid, artificial, ashes, austere, awkward, balker, balky horse, barren, beach bum,… …

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  • 96stilted — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, Latinate, affected, artificial, aureate, awkward, bedizened, big sounding, bloated, bombastic, buckram, cardboard, clumsy, conventional, convoluted, cramped, cumbrous, declamatory, decorous,… …

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  • 97tall — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, a bit thick, a bit thin, a mile long, absurd, affected, altitudinous, bedizened, beyond belief, big, big sounding, bombastic, bumper, colossal, considerable, convoluted, declamatory, doubtable …

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  • 98turgid — Synonyms and related words: Latinate, aureate, awkward, bellied, bloated, blown up, bombastic, bug eyed, bulged, cramped, cumbrous, dilated, distended, dropsical, edematous, elephantine, enchymatous, euphuistic, exophthalmic, fat, flatulent,… …

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  • 99unwieldy — Synonyms and related words: Latinate, all thumbs, awkward, blunderheaded, blundering, bombastic, boorish, bulky, bumbling, bungling, burdensome, butterfingered, careless, clownish, clumsy, clumsy fisted, contrary, cramped, crosswise, cumbersome,… …

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  • 100long — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. lengthy, elongated; tedious; extended, protracted. See length. adv. in great degree, for a time. See durability. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Extended in space] Syn. lengthy, extended, outstretched,… …

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