(a.) Intended to attract attention; pretentious; boastful\.

Gongoresque Johnsonian affected ambitious arabesque baroque bedizened big-sounding boastful braggart busy chichi classy convoluted declamatory elaborate elegant elevated euphuistic fancy fine flamboyant flaming flash flashy flaunting florid flossy flowery frilly fulsome fussy garish gaudy grandiloquent grandiose grandisonant high-flowing high-flown high-flying high-sounding high-toned high-wrought highfalutin highfaluting inkhorn labored labyrinthine lexiphanic lofty lurid luxuriant luxurious magniloquent meretricious moresque ornate orotund overdone overelaborate overelegant overinvolved overlabored overworked overwrought peacockish peacocky pedantic picturesque pompous pretentious pretty-pretty rhetorical rich rococo sensational sensationalistic sententious showy sonorous splashy stilted swank tall theatrical tony tortuous vain vainglorious vaunting