(a.) Excessively extravagant; bombastic; pretentious\; characterized by waving or flamelike curves, as in the tracery of windows, etc.; -- said of the later (15th century) French Gothic style.

Gongoresque Johnsonian affected arabesque baroque bedazzling bedizened big-sounding blinding bright bright and shining brilliant busy chichi convoluted dashing dazzling declamatory decorated effulgent elaborate elegant elevated embellished euphuistic extravagant fancy fine flaming flashy flaunting florid flowery frilly fulgent fulgid fulsome fussy garish gaudy glaring glary grandiloquent grandiose grandisonant high high-flowing high-flown high-flying high-sounding high-wrought highfalutin inkhorn jaunty labored labyrinthine lexiphanic lofty lurid luscious luxuriant luxurious magniloquent meretricious moresque ornamented ornate orotund ostentatious overdone overelaborate overelegant overinvolved overlabored overworked overwrought peacockish peacocky pedantic picturesque pompous pretentious pretty-pretty rakish refulgent resplendent rhetorical rich rococo sensational sensationalistic sententious showy sonorous splashy splendent splendid splendorous stilted swank swashbuckling tall tortuous vivid wide