(a.) Lofty, pompous, bombastic; as grandiloquent speech\.

Gongoresque Johnsonian affected aggrandized amplified aureate ballyhooed bedizened big-sounding bloated bombastic convoluted declamatory disproportionate elevated euphuistic exaggerated excessive exorbitant extravagant extreme flamboyant flaming flashy flatulent flaunting flowery formal fulsome garish gassy gaudy grandiose grandisonant high-flowing high-flown high-flying high-sounding highfalutin hyperbolic inflated inkhorn inordinate labyrinthine lexiphanic lofty lurid magnified magniloquent meretricious orotund ostentatious overblown overdone overdrawn overelaborate overemphasized overemphatic overestimated overgreat overinvolved overlarge overpraised oversold overstated overstressed overwrought pedantic pompous pontifical pretentious prodigal profuse puffed rhetorical self-important sensational sensationalistic sententious showy solemn sonorous stilted stretched stuffy superlative swollen tall tortuous touted tumid turgid