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Word Meanings - EUPHUISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An affectation of excessive elegance and refinement of language; high-flown diction.

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  • ARTIFICER
    A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory. Syn. -- Artisan; artist. See Artisan. (more info) 1. An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one
  • AFFECTATIONIST
    One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
  • SLANGINESS
    Quality of being slangy.
  • INCONCINNITY
    Want of concinnity or congruousness; unsuitableness. There is an inconcinnity in admitting these words. Trench.
  • HYPOCRISY
    The act or practice of a hypocrite; a feigning to be what one is not, or to feel what one does not feel; a dissimulation, or a concealment of one's real character, disposition, or motives; especially, the assuming of false appearance of virtue or
  • GRANDILOQUENCE
    The use of lofty words or phrases; bombast; -- usually in a bad sense. The sin of grandiloquence or tall talking. Thackeray,
  • BOMBAST
    a doublet of cotton; hence, padding, wadding, fustian. See 1. Originally, cotton, or cotton wool. A candle with a wick of bombast. Lupton. 2. Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding. How now, my sweet
  • STIFFNESS
    The quality or state of being stiff; as, the stiffness of cloth or of paste; stiffness of manner; stiffness of character. The vices of old age have the stiffness of it too. South.
  • MANNERISM
    Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
  • MAGNILOQUENCE
    The quality of being magniloquent; pompous discourse; grandiloquence.
  • VERBOSITY
    The quality or state of being verbose; the use of more words than are necessary; prolixity; wordiness; verbiage. The worst fault, by far, is the extreme diffuseness and verbosity of his style. Jeffrey.
  • SLANGOUS
    Slangy. John Bee.
  • AFFECTATION
    1. An attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real; false display; artificial show. "An affectation of contempt." Macaulay. Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty
  • SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS
    The quality or state of being self-conscious.
  • SLANGY
    Of or pertaining to slang; of the nature of slang; disposed to use slang.
  • FUSTIANIST
    A writer of fustian. Milton.
  • CACOPHONY
    An uncouth or disagreable sound of words, owing to the concurrence of harsh letters or syllables. "Cacophonies of all kinds." Pope.
  • ARTIFICE
    1. A handicraft; a trade; art of making. 2. Workmanship; a skillfully contrived work. The material universe.. in the artifice of God, the artifice of the best Mechanist. Cudworth. 3. Artful or skillful contrivance. His plots were constructed
  • BARBARISM
    1. An uncivilized state or condition; rudeness of manners; ignorance of arts, learning, and literature; barbarousness. Prescott. 2. A barbarous, cruel, or brutal action; an outrage. A heinous barbarism . . . against the honor of marriage. Milton.
  • RESTIFFNESS
    Restiveness.
  • ASSIMULATION
    Assimilation. Bacon.
  • DISSIMULATION
    The act of dissembling; a hiding under a false appearance; concealment by feigning; false pretension; hypocrisy. Let love be without dissimulation. Rom. xii. 9. Dissimulation . . . when a man lets fall signs and arguments that he is not that he
  • SEMIBARBARISM
    The quality or state of being half barbarous or uncivilized.
  • BOOMSLANGE
    A large South African tree snake . Although considered venomous by natives, it has no poison fangs.

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