turgidity
111vulgarity — Synonyms and related words: Gothicism, bad manners, bad taste, barbarism, barbarousness, baseness, bombasticness, cacology, cacophony, caddishness, clumsiness, coarseness, crudeness, cumbrousness, deficiency, discourteousness, discourtesy,… …
112wen — Synonyms and related words: benign tumor, birthmark, blackhead, bleb, blemish, blister, boil, bulla, bump, bunion, callosity, callus, cancer, carbuncle, carcinoma, check, cicatrix, comedo, corn, crack, crater, craze, cyst, defacement, defect,… …
113bombast — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. boasting, braggadocio, grandiloquence, exaggeration. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. grandiloquence, rant, fustian, pomposity; see nonsense 1 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. grandiloquence, rodomontade,… …
114claptrap — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. nonsense (See unmeaningness). II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. empty talk, drivel, bombast, bunk; see nonsense 1 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD) n. [KLAP TRAP] pretentious writing or talk… …
115expansion — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Act of expanding Nouns expansion, increase, enlargement, extension, augmentation, amplification, dilation, aggrandizement, spread, growth, development, turgescence, turgidness, turgidity; obesity, dropsy …
116flatulence — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. windiness, belching, eructation, gassiness, gas; conceit, pompousness. See ostentation, vapor. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. pomposity, bombast, empty talk, boasting, twaddle, babble, idle words, mere words …
117rant — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. rage, rave, scold, nag; harangue. See excitability, speech. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. bombast, tirade, raving, rhetoric; see nonsense 1 . v. Syn. rave, fume, rail, harangue; see bluster , rage 1 .… …
118fustian — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. bombast, ranting, pomposity; see euphuism , wordiness . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. bombastic, pompous, pretentious, extravagant, grandiose, lofty. ANT.: understated, low key III (Roget s Thesaurus II) I noun… …
119magniloquence — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. pomposity, bombast, grandiloquence; see eloquence 1 , nonsense 1 , speech 2 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Pretentious, pompous speech or writing: bombast, claptrap, fustian, grandiloquence, orotun dity, rant, turgidity.… …
120wordiness — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. redundance, redundancy, diffuseness, circumlocution, repetition, verbiage, verbosity, turgidity, prolixity, tautology, indirectness, periphrasis, flow of words, rhetoric, fullness, pleonasm, copiousness, bombast,… …
