declamatory
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8.3
- adjective
- /dɪˈklæməˌtɔri/
- Formal
:
declamatorio
- She delivered her speech in a declamatory manner, emphasizing each point with grand gestures.
- declamatory style
Examples
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The speaker's declamatory tone captivated the audience, making even mundane topics seem important.
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Both of them spoke in a fine declamatory style, but they frequently interrupted themselves with a sad little laugh that expressed something quite different from what they were saying and which seemed to serve them as an aside not meant for our ears.
Fiction book (1996) -
Dramatic. Having a powerful voice and a declamatory style.
Academic text (2003) -
It's four declamatory sentences, followed by a question, for a total of 57 words.
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Clapping on beats two and four, moving while singing, and using a declamatory style are common performance practices of gospel.
Academic text (2003) -
The grandly declamatory style, moreover, is pure Raynal.
Academic text (2000) -
"The Costa Rican golden toad," he cried in his wild burnished declamatory tones, "R.I.P.!" The woman beside me gasped.
Fiction book (1991) -
The girls responded to the melody line by singing short, declamatory phrases in three-part harmony (alto, soprano one, and soprano two).
Academic text (2005) -
Lindstrom's play consists of six tableaux—the antithesis of dramatic action—and is composed in declamatory verse.
Academic text (1998) -
Thus, where Struggle photography had tended to be urgent and declamatory, dictating specific readings of the image, photographers emerging from this maelstrom wanted to create a more resonant, complex image of their subjects.
Academic text (2004)
Synonyms
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8.2
Using grand or showy language to seem important
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8.5
Using big, showy words that have little real meaning
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8.9
Language that uses long, fancy words to seem important but is hard to read
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9.9
Using long, fancy words to sound important
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6.8
Saying something with too much force so it sounds fake
To use very big, showy words to sound important
Speech or writing that uses very grand, showy language
Speech or writing that uses big words to seem important
Antonyms
How Theatrical
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Declamatory comes from the Latin parts de- and clamare, where clamare means 'to shout' or 'call out'. The same root appears in English words like clamor and exclaim, so declamatory describes speech that is loud, showy, and meant to impress.