English-Thai Dictionary
declamatory
ADJ ฉะฉาน โผงผาง จัดจ้าน cha-chan
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
DECLAMATORY
a. 1. Relating to the practice of declaiming; pertaining to declamation; treated in the manner of a rhetorician; as a declamatory theme.
2. Appealing to the passions; noisy; rhetorical without solid sense or argument; as a declamatory way or style.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
DECLAMATORY
De *clam "a *to *ry, a. Etym: [L. declamatorius: cf. F. déclamatoire. ]
1. Pertaining to declamation; treated in the manner of a rhetorician; as, a declamatory theme.
2. Characterized by rhetorical display; pretentiously rhetorical; without solid sense or argument; bombastic; noisy; as, a declamatory way or style.
Oxford Dictionary
declamatory
declamatory |dɪˈklamət (ə )ri | ▶adjective vehement or impassioned in expression: a long declamatory speech.
Oxford Thesaurus
declamatory
declamatory adjective his speech-making was quiet and factual, very different from Clark's declamatory style: rhetorical, oratorical, elaborate, ornate, bold, extravagant, flowery, florid, dramatic, theatrical, lofty, high-flown, high-sounding, bombastic, magniloquent, grandiloquent, overblown, overdone, overwrought, affected, orotund, inflated, overinflated, pompous, pretentious; informal highfalutin, purple; rare fustian, tumid, euphuistic, aureate, Ossianic.
Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary
declamatory
de clam a to ry /dɪklǽmətɔ̀ːri |-t (ə )ri /形容詞 ｟かたく ｠1 演説調の ; 朗読風の .2 〈スピーチ 文章などが 〉感情的な (emotional ); 美辞麗句で飾った ; 大げさな .
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