Ornament (Style)
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Primary Base | * |
Cross-Reference
Siblings
koncin* | Elegance | |
* | Feebleness | Lack of vigor. |
koncinew* | Inelegance | Lack or want of elegance. |
* | Obscurity | |
* | Ornament (Style) | |
* | Perspicuity | Clearness, lucidity. |
ornew* | Plainness | Lack of ornament. |
* | Vigor | Validity, strength, force, effectiveness. |
Notes
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; euphuism, euphemism.
Bombast, big-sounding words, highsounding words; macrology, sesquipedalia verba [L.], sesquipedalian words, sesquipedality, sesquipedalianism, Alexandrine; inflation, pretension; rant, fustian.