Alt. of Sesquipedalian
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1. SESQUIPEDA'LIAN , Containing a foot and a half; as a sesquipedalian pigmy.
2. Addison uses sesquipedal as a noun.
Measuring or containing a foot and a half; as, a sesquipedalian pygmy; -- sometimes humorously applied to long words.
Alt. of Sesquipedalism
Sesquipedality.
Ornament Roget’s Thesaurus §577
N. ornament, floridness c, adj, turgidity, turgescence, altiloquence, declamation, teratology|, well-rounded periods, elegance, orotundity, inversion, antithesis, alliteration, paronomasia, figurativeness, flourish, flowers of speech, flowers of rhetoric, frills of style, euphuism, euphemism, big-sounding words, high-sounding words, macrology, sesquipedalia verba, alexandrine, inflation, pretension, rant, bombast, fustian, prose run mad, fine writing, sesquipedality, minerva press, phrasemonger, euphuist, euphemist
V. ornament, overlay with ornament, overcharge, smell of the lamp
Adj. ornament, beautified, ornate, florid, rich, flowery, euphuistic, euphemistic, sonorous, high-sounding, big- sounding, inflated, swelling, tumid, turgid, turgescent, pedantic, pompous, stilted, orotund, high flown, high flowing, sententious, rhetorical, declamatory, grandiose, grandiloquent, magniloquent, altiloquent, sesquipedal, sesquipedalian, johnsonian, mouthy, bombastic, fustian, frothy, flashy, flaming, antithetical, alliterative, figurative, artificial
Adv. ore rutundo
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