sophomoricaladj.
U.S.
= sophomoric adj.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adjective] > inflated or bombastic
fleshyc1369
windya1382
unmeasureda1425
puffing1566
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bombasted1589
fustian1592
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gouty1595
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mouth-filling1598
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tympanous1625
high-flown1632
tumorousa1637
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bombastical1649
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tuftaffetya1658
pompiona1670
bombastic1704
dropsical1721
thundering1725
turgid1725
exsuffolate1744
Lexiphanic1767
hi cockalorum1783
Ossianic1788
mouthing1814
mouthy1827
sophomoric1837
highfalutin1839
sophomorical1847
spread eagle1853
tumescent1882
Herodian1886
Ossianesque1889
Barnumesque1890
1847 D. A. Wells & S. H. Davis Sketches Williams Coll. 74 The Professor told me it was rather Sophomorical. Wonder what was intended by that epithet.
1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) 429 Sophomorical, a term applied to speeches and writings containing high-sounding words and but little sense.
1883 Science 2 113/2 The paper is decidedly sophomorical.
Derivatives
sophoˈmorically adv.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adverb] > bombastically
swellinglya1652
turgidly1668
mouthingly1671
mouthishly1797
bombastically1803
tumidly1822
sophomorically1889
bombastly-
1889 Literary World (Boston) 21 Dec. 485/2 The question of public worship is discussed rather sophomorically by Rev. D. S. Clark, and more thoughtfully and soberly by an unnamed ‘pastor’.
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