Flowery
Flowery adjective - Full of fine words and fancy expressions.
Periphrastic and flowery are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Periphrastic" instead an adjective "Flowery".
Periphrastic
Periphrastic adjective - Roundabout and unnecessarily wordy.
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Synonyms for Periphrastic
Flowery and periphrastic are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Flowery" instead an adjective "Periphrastic".
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Related pairs
- extravagant and flowery
- extravagant and periphrastic
- rhetorical and flowery
- rhetorical and periphrastic
- bombastic and flowery
- bombastic and periphrastic
- oratorical and flowery
- oratorical and periphrastic
- inflated and flowery
- inflated and periphrastic
- diffuse and flowery
- diffuse and periphrastic
- verbose and flowery
- verbose and periphrastic
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