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-ana
unknown · 78% connection
A suffix to names of persons or places, used to denote a collection of notable sayings, literary gossip, anecdotes, etc. Thus, Scalige…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, resembling, johnson, style, pompous.
A cappella
unknown · 78% connection
In church or chapel style; -- said of compositions sung in the old church style, without instrumental accompaniment; as, a mass a cape…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, resembling, johnson, style, pompous.
Bombast
noun · 78% connection
Originally, cotton, or cotton wool.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, resembling, johnson, style, pompous.
Boswellian
adjective · 78% connection
Relating to, or characteristic of, Boswell, the biographer of Dr. Johnson.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, resembling, johnson, style, pompous.
Cantabile
adjective · 78% connection
In a melodious, flowing style; in a singing style, as opposed to bravura, recitativo, or parlando.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, resembling, johnson, style, pompous.
Dial
noun · 78% connection
An instrument, formerly much used for showing the time of day from the shadow of a style or gnomon on a graduated arc or surface; esp.…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, resembling, johnson, style, pompous.
Diffuse
verb · 78% connection
To pour out and cause to spread, as a fluid; to cause to flow on all sides; to send out, or extend, in all directions; to spread; to c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, resembling, johnson, style, pompous.
Dolly Varden
unknown · 78% connection
A character in Dickens's novel "Barnaby Rudge," a beautiful, lively, and coquettish girl who wore a cherry-colored mantle and cherry-c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, resembling, johnson, style, pompous.
Ease
noun · 78% connection
Satisfaction; pleasure; hence, accommodation; entertainment.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, resembling, johnson, style, pompous.
Energy
noun · 78% connection
Internal or inherent power; capacity of acting, operating, or producing an effect, whether exerted or not; as, men possessing energies…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, resembling, johnson, style, pompous.
Epic
adjective · 78% connection
Narrated in a grand style; pertaining to or designating a kind of narrative poem, usually called an heroic poem, in which real or fict…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, resembling, johnson, style, pompous.
Fashion
noun · 78% connection
The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; as, the fashion of the ark, of a coa…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, resembling, johnson, style, pompous.
Fustian
noun · 78% connection
A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, resembling, johnson, style, pompous.
Grandiloquent
adjective · 78% connection
Speaking in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, resembling, johnson, style, pompous.
Gyroscope
noun · 78% connection
A rotating wheel, mounted in a ring or rings, for illustrating the dynamics of rotating bodies, the composition of rotations, etc. It…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, resembling, johnson, style, pompous.
Hudibrastic
adjective · 78% connection
Similar to, or in the style of, the poem "Hudibras," by Samuel Butler; in the style of doggerel verse.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, resembling, johnson, style, pompous.
Inflated
imp. & p. p. · 78% connection
of Inflate
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, resembling, johnson, style, pompous.
Johnsonese
noun · 78% connection
The literary style of Dr. Samuel Johnson, or one formed in imitation of it; an inflated, stilted, or pompous style, affecting classica…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, resembling, johnson, style, pompous.
