inflated style

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  • inflated style — bombastic style …   English contemporary dictionary

  • Inflated — In*flat ed, a. 1. Filled, as with air or gas; blown up; distended; as, a balloon inflated with gas. [1913 Webster] 2. Turgid; swelling; puffed up; bombastic; pompous; as, an inflated style. [1913 Webster] Inflated and astrut with self conceit.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • inflated — adjective Date: 1652 1. elaborated or heightened by artificial or empty means < an inflated style of writing > 2. distended with air or gas 3. expanded to an abnormal or unjustifiable volume or level < inflated prices > 4. being hollow and… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • inflated — inflated, flatulent, tumid, turgid mean filled with something insubstantial (as air or vapor). Inflated implies expansion by the introduction of something (as a gas) lacking in substance to the point where the walls are stretched taut or tension… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • inflated — adjective 1. enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness (Freq. 1) a hyperbolic style • Syn: ↑hyperbolic • Similar to: ↑increased • Derivationally related forms: ↑hyperbole …   Useful english dictionary

  • Asiatic style — The Asiatic style or Asianism (Latin: genus orationis Asiaticum, Cicero, Brutus 325) refers to an Ancient Greek rhetorical tendency (though not an organized school) that arose in the third century BC, which later became an important point of… …   Wikipedia

  • fustian — I adjective bombastic, declamatory, flatulent, gausape, grandiloquent, grandiose, high flown, high sounding, inflated, mouthy, orotund, pompous, pretentious, ranting, swollen, tumid, turgid II noun affectation, altiloquence, bombast, bombastic… …   Law dictionary

  • Latin American art — Introduction       artistic traditions that developed in Mesoamerica, Central America, and South America after contact with the Spanish and Portuguese beginning in 1492 and 1500, respectively, and continuing to the present.       This article… …   Universalium

  • ITALIAN LITERATURE — Influence of the Bible As in other European cultures, the Bible became known to the Italian literary and cultural world through the Latin Vulgate, which was extensively studied in medieval times and, to a lesser extent, in the humanist period of… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • German Literature — • History starting with the pre Christian period to 800 A.D Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. German Literature     German Literature      …   Catholic encyclopedia

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