N. expansion, increase of size,
enlargement, extension,
augmentation,
amplification,
ampliation,
aggrandizement, spread,
increment, growth, development,
pullulation, swell,
dilation,
rarefaction,
turgescence,
turgidness,
turgidity, dispansion|,
obesity,
hydrocephalus, hydrophthalmus,
dropsy,
tumefaction,
intumescence, swelling,
tumor,
diastole, distension,
puffing,
puffiness,
inflation,
pandiculation,
dilatability,
expansibility,
germination, growth,
upgrowth,
accretion,
budding,
gemmation, overgrowth, overdistension,
hypertrophy,
tympany,
bulb,
plumper, superiority of size, big bang, hubble constant
V. become larger &c. (large ),
expand,
widen,
enlarge, extend, grow, increase,
incrassate, swell, gather, fill out,
deploy, take open order,
dilate, stretch, distend, spread,
mantle, wax, grow up, spring up,
bud,
bourgeon, shoot,
sprout,
germinate, put forth,
vegetate,
pullulate, open, burst forth, gain flesh, gather flesh, outgrow, spread like wildfire, overrun, be larger than,
surpass, render larger &c. (large ),
expand, spread, extend,
aggrandize, distend, develop,
amplify, spread out,
widen,
magnify,
rarefy,
inflate,
puff, blow up, stuff,
pad,
cram,
exaggerate,
fatten Adj. expanded, larger &c. (large ),
swollen,
expansive, wide open, wide spread,
flabelliform, overgrown, exaggerated,
bloated, fat,
turgid,
tumid,
hypertrophied,
dropsical, pot bellied, swag bellied|,
edematous,
oedematous,
obese,
puffy,
pursy,
blowzy,
bigswoln, distended,
patulous,
bulbous, full blown, full grown, full formed,
big,
abdominous, enchymatous, rhipidate, tumefacient,
tumefying 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
