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anapestic, anapaestic

adj. (of a metric foot) characterized by two short syllables followed by a long one

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bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid

adj. ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"

flowery, ornate

adj. marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details; "a flowery speech"; "ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato"-John Milton

forensic

adj. used or applied in the investigation and establishment of facts or evidence in a court of law; "forensic photograph"; "forensic ballistics"

grandiloquent, magniloquent, tall

adj. lofty in style; "he engages in so much tall talk, one never really realizes what he is saying"

oratorical

adj. characteristic of an orator or oratory; "oratorical prose"; "harangued his men in an oratorical way"- Robert Graves

poetic, poetical

adj. characteristic of or befitting poetry; "poetic diction"

stylistic

adj. of or relating to style (especially in the use of language); "stylistic devices"

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