- gongoresque
- gon·go·resque
English syllables. 2014.
gongoresque
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gongoresque — |gäŋgə|resk, |gȯŋ adjective Usage: usually capitalized Etymology: Luis de Góngora y Argote died 1627 Spanish poet + English esque : of or relating to the poet Góngora or to Gongorism putting into verses of Gongoresque lineage … the authentic… … Useful english dictionary
La Decadència — The early modern period (late 15th or 16th 18th centuries) in Catalan literature and historiography, while extremely productive for Castilian writers of the Siglo de Oro, has been termed La Decadència (Catalan pronunciation: [ɫə ðəkəˈðɛnsiə] … Wikipedia
Johnsonian — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, affected, bedizened, big sounding, convoluted, declamatory, elevated, euphuistic, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flaunting, fulsome, garish, gaudy, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, high flowing, high… … Moby Thesaurus
affected — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Gongoristic, Johnsonian, Marinistic, Tartuffian, Tartuffish, afflicted, agonized, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, attacked, awkward, bastard, bedizened, big sounding, bogus, brummagem, canting, chichi,… … Moby Thesaurus
artificial — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Gongoristic, Marinistic, affected, apocryphal, assumed, bastard, bogus, brummagem, colorable, colored, concocted, contrived, counterfeit, counterfeited, cute, distorted, dressed up, dummy, elaborate,… … Moby Thesaurus
bedizened — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, adorned, affected, beaded, bedecked, befrilled, bejeweled, beribboned, bespangled, big sounding, convoluted, decked out, declamatory, decorated, elevated, embellished, euphuistic, feathered,… … Moby Thesaurus
declamatory — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, aureate, bedizened, big sounding, bombastic, convoluted, elevated, elocutionary, eloquent, euphuistic, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flaunting, flowery, forensic, fulsome, garish,… … Moby Thesaurus
elaborate — Synonyms and related words: Babylonian, Byzantine, Corinthian, Gongoresque, Gongoristic, Marinistic, adorn, affected, amplify, arabesque, artificial, assemble, assiduous, awe inspiring, awful, balled up, barbaric, baroque, beautify, build, busy,… … Moby Thesaurus
elevated — Synonyms and related words: Amtrak, Gongoresque, Johnsonian, L, Olympian, accelerated, aerial, affected, afflicted, aggrandized, airy, altitudinous, amplified, animated, apotheosized, ascending, aspiring, augmented, august, awesome, baggage train … Moby Thesaurus
flamboyant — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, arabesque, baroque, bedazzling, bedizened, big sounding, blinding, bright, bright and shining, brilliant, busy, chichi, convoluted, dashing, dazzling, declamatory, decorated,… … Moby Thesaurus
