High-sounding words; language above the dignity of the occasion; a pompous or ostentatious manner of writing or speaking.
Big without meaning, or high-sounding; bombastic, inflated; magniloquent.
To use high-sounding words; to speak or write in a pompous or ostentatious manner.
To swell or fill out; to inflate, to pad.
Pretentious rhetorical display, with more sound than sense.
The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; loud speaking in public.
A set or harangue; declamatory discourse.
The public recitation of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges.