Contents
-AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.
Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties
Division (II) Communication of Ideas
Section III. Means of Communicating Ideas
Various Qualities of Style
577. Ornament.
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| NOUN: | ORNAMENT; floridness &c. adj.; turgidity, turgescence or turgescency; altiloquence [obs.], grandiloquence, magniloquence, declamation, teratology [obs.]; well-rounded periods; elegance [See Elegance]; orotundity.
inversion, antithesis, alliteration, paronomasia; trope; figurativeness (metaphor) [See Metaphor].
flourish; flowers of -speech, – rhetoric; frills, – of style; euphuism, euphemism.
BOMBAST, big-sounding words, highsounding words; macrology, sesquipedalia verba [L.], sesquipedalian words, sesquipedality, sesquipedalianism, Alexandrine; inflation, pretension; rant, fustian, highfalutin’ [slang, U. S.], buncombe or bunkum [U. S.], balderdash; prose run mad; fine writing; purple patches; Minerva press.
PHRASEMONGER, euphuist, euphemist; word coiner.
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| VERB: | ORNAMENT, overlay with ornament, overcharge, overload; euphuize, euphemize; buncomize [colloq.]; smell of the lamp.
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| ADJECTIVE: | ORNATE; ornamented &c. v.; beautified [See Ornament]; florid, rich, flowery; euphuistic, euphemistic; sonorous; high- big- sounding; inflated, swelling, tumid; turgid, turgescent; pedantic, pompous, stilted; orotund; high-flown, high-flowing, highfalutin’ [slang, U. S.]; sententious, rhetorical, declamatory; grandiose; grandiloquent; magniloquent; altiloquent [obs.]; sesquipedal, sesquipedalian; Johnsonian, mouthy; bombastic; fustian; frothy, flashy, flamboyant.
antithetical, alliterative; figurative [See Metaphor]; artificial (inelegant) [See Inelegance].
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| ADVERB: | ore rotundo [L.], with rounded phrase.
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| QUOTATIONS: | - To gild refinéd gold, to paint the lily, to throw a perfume on the violet.—King John
- Make all the little fishes talk like big whales.—Goldsmith, of Johnson—Boswell’s Life
- In the end never died, but passed away at her residence.—Dunsany
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