Roget's Thesaurus

#577. Ornament

Nouns

ornament; floridness, adj.. turgidity, turgescence; altiloquence etc. adj.; declamation, teratology; well-rounded periods; elegance etc. 578; orotundity. inversion, antithesis, alliteration, paronomasia; figurativeness etc. (metaphor) 521. flourish; flowers of speech, flowers of rhetoric; frills of style, euphuism, euphemism. big-sounding words, high-sounding words; macrology, sesquipedalia verba [Lat.], Alexandrine; inflation, pretension; rant, bombast, fustian, prose run mad; fine writing; sesquipedality; Minerva press. phrasemonger; euphuist, euphemist.

Verbs

ornament, overlay with ornament, overcharge; smell of the lamp.

Adjectives

ornament etc. v.; beautified etc. 847; 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 etc. 521; artificial etc. (inelegant) 579.

Adverbs

ore rutundo [Lat.].