Ornate diction

Synonyms for "ornate diction" (18 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (4)

Adjective(3 words)
affected styleelaborateembellished
Noun(1 words)
early modern english literature

Strong matches (5)

Noun(1 words)
Adjective(4 words)
floridflorid proseflorid styleflorid writing

Related words (9)

Adjective(7 words)
flowery languagegrandiloquencehifalutinornate stylepompous languageprolixpurple prose
Noun(2 words)
macrologiespoetic diction

Related word relations

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5 relation types

More general

4 entries
decorativelinguistic stylerhetorical stylewriting style

More specific

12 entries
baroquebaroque dictionflorid proseflorid writingflowery prosegrandiose wordingornamental flourishornamental phrasingpretentious phrasingpurple proserococorococo diction

Collocations

11 entries
florid proseflowery languagegrandiloquent styleornate handwritingornate languageornate phrasingornate proseornate rhetoricornate stylepompous languagepurple prose

Inflections

3 entries
more ornatemost ornateornate dictions

Derivations

3 entries