| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Having too much flesh: corpulent, fat, fatty, fleshy, gross, obese, overweight, porcine, portly, stout, weighty. See FAT. 2. Filled up with or as if with something insubstantial: flatulent, inflated, tumescent, tumid, turgid, windy. See INCREASE, PLAIN. 3. Characterized by language that is elevated and sometimes pompous in style: aureate, bombastic, declamatory, flowery, fustian, grandiloquent, high-flown, high-sounding, magniloquent, orotund, rhetorical, sonorous, swollen. See PLAIN, STYLE, WORDS.
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