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adj. elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech"

adj. concerned with effect or style of writing and speaking; "a rhetorical question is one asked solely to produce an effect (especially to make an assertion) rather than to elicit a reply"

large, orotund, bombastic, declamatory, turgid

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

overblown, grandiloquent, pompous, pontifical, portentous

adj. puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek

pretentious

adj. making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction; "a pretentious country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious scholarly edition"

kitsch, ostentatious, pretentious

adj. of a display that is tawdry or vulgar

expressive

adj. characterized by expression; "a very expressive face"

dandified, dandyish, foppish

adj. affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner

flash, gaudy, brassy, vulgar, flashy, cheap, loud, meretricious, tawdry, garish, gimcrack, tacky, trashy

adj. tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"

grandiose, hifalutin, highfalutin, highfaluting, hoity-toity, la-di-da

adj. affectedly genteel

purple, empurpled, ornate, flowery, over-embellished

adj. excessively elaborate or showily expressed; "a writer of empurpled literature"; "many purple passages"; "speech embellished with classical quotations"; "an over-embellished story of the fish that got away"

embellished, ornamented, ornate

adj. rich in decorative detail

baroque, churrigueresque, churrigueresco

adj. having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation; "the building...frantically baroque"-William Dean Howells

busy, fussy

adj. overcrowded or cluttered with detail; "a busy painting"; "a fussy design"

battlemented, castellated, castled, crenelated, crenellated

adj. having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement; "a crenelated molding"

chichi, dressy

adj. in fancy clothing

crackle

adj. having the surface decorated with a network of fine cracks, as in crackleware; "a crackle glaze"

damascene, damascened

adj. (of metals) decorated or inlaid with a wavy pattern of different (especially precious) metals; "a damascened sword"

damask

adj. having a woven pattern; "damask table linens"

elaborate, intricate

adj. marked by complexity and richness of detail; "an elaborate lace pattern"

crenelate, crenellate, indented, crenelated, crenellated, embattled

adj. having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement; "a crenelated molding"

lacy, lacelike

adj. made of or resembling lace; "a lacy gown"; "a lacy leaf"

puff, full, puffed

adj. gathered for protruding fullness; "puff sleeves"

rococo

adj. having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation; "an exquisite gilded rococo mirror"

vermiculate, vermicular, vermiculated

adj. decorated with wormlike tracery or markings; "vermicular (or vermiculated) stonework"

wan, pallid

adj. (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble; "the pale light of a half moon"; "a pale sun"; "the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street"; "a pallid sky"; "the pale (or wan) stars"; "the wan light of dawn"

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