fustian
fustian is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.An inflated style of writing; a kind of writing in which high- sounding words are used,' above the dignity of the thoughts or subject; bombast. Claudius . . . has run his description into the most wretched fustian. Addison.
- 2.Made of fustian.
- 3.Pompous; ridiculously tumid; inflated; bombastic; as, fustian history. Walpole.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abrupt
- absurd
- absurdity
- absurdness
- affectation
- affected
- alliteration
- alliterative
- alogy
- altiloquence
- altiloquent
- anticlimax
- antithesis
- antithetical
- artificial
- awkward
- barbarism
- barbarous
- bathos
- blunder
- bombast
- bombastic
- boutade
- break
- bull
- cacophony
- contradictory
- crude
- declamation
- declamatory
- delusion
- dislocate
- disorder
- dry
- egregious
- elegance
- escapade
- euphemism
- euphemistic
- euphuism
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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