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All altiloquence synonyms

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noun altiloquence

  • boasting — to speak with exaggeration and excessive pride, especially about oneself.
  • balderdash — If you say that something that has been said or written is balderdash, you think it is completely untrue or very stupid.
  • bluster — If you say that someone is blustering, you mean that they are speaking aggressively but without authority, often because they are angry or offended.
  • braggadocio — vain empty boasting
  • cotton — Cotton is a type of cloth made from soft fibres from a particular plant.
  • fustian — a stout fabric of cotton and flax.
  • gasconade — extravagant boasting; boastful talk.
  • grandiloquence — speech that is lofty in tone, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • grandiosity — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
  • magniloquence — speaking or expressed in a lofty or grandiose style; pompous; bombastic; boastful.
  • pad — Packet Assembler/Disassembler
  • pomposity — the quality of being pompous.
  • rage — angry fury; violent anger (sometimes used in combination): a speech full of rage; incidents of road rage.
  • rant — to speak or declaim extravagantly or violently; talk in a wild or vehement way; rave: The demagogue ranted for hours.
  • rave — to talk wildly, as in delirium.
  • rhapsody — Music. an instrumental composition irregular in form and suggestive of improvisation.
  • rhetoric — (in writing or speech) the undue use of exaggeration or display; bombast.
  • rodomontade — vainglorious boasting or bragging; pretentious, blustering talk.
  • stuff — the material of which anything is made: a hard, crystalline stuff.
  • tumid — swollen, or affected with swelling, as a part of the body.
  • turgidity — swollen; distended; tumid.
  • padded — a dull, muffled sound, as of footsteps on the ground.
  • stuffed — the material of which anything is made: a hard, crystalline stuff.
  • tympany — Pathology. tympanites.
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