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Old 08-28-2011, 07:35 AM   #16614
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Main Entry: verbose
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: wordy, long-winded
Synonyms: bombastic, circumlocutory, diffuse, flowery, full of air, fustian, gabby, garrulous, grandiloquent, involved, loquacious, magniloquent, palaverous, periphrastic, pleonastic, prolix, redundant, repeating, repetitious, repetitive, rhetorical, talkative, talky, tautological, tautologous, tedious, tortuous, windy, yacking
Antonyms: concise, succinct
Main Entry: bombastic
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: pompous, grandiloquent
Synonyms: aureate, balderdash, big-talking, declamatory, euphuistic, flowery, full of hot air, fustian, grandiose, high-flown, highfalutin, histrionic, inflated, loudmouthed, magniloquent, orotund, ostentatious, overblown, ranting, rhapsodic, rhetorical, sonorous, stuffed shirt, swollen, tumid, turgid, verbose, windbag, windy, wordy
Antonyms: humble, quiet, reserved, restrained
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