declamatory

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
19
Words With Friends
21
Letters
11
Pronunciation
/dɪˈklæmətɹi/ (UK)

Definition of declamatory

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Having the quality of a declamation.
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adj

  1. Having the quality of a declamation.
  2. Pretentiously lofty in style; bombastic.
    “He is described as having spoken for nearly an hour with great confidence in a highly declamatory tone, and with studied action, impressing all present who had ever heard of Cicero or Hortensius with the belief that he had worked himself up into the notion of being one or both of them for the occasion.”
    “Behind him an excitable Frenchman was holding forth in declamatory style to a group of astonished residents.”

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Etymology

Equivalent to declaim + -atory.

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