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tall, grandiloquent

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

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anapestic, anapaestic

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

large, orotund, bombastic, declamatory, turgid

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

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"

forensic

adj. of, relating to, or used in courts of law or public debate or argument

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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magniloquent

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