Euphuistic [adjective]

Definition of Euphuistic:

exaggerated

Opposite/Antonyms of Euphuistic:

● Reduced

● Contracted

● Compressed

● Abridged

● Abbreviated

● Deflated

● Shrunken


Sentence/Example of Euphuistic:

They are known at a later period to have acted some of Lily's Euphuistic plays, and one of Middleton's.

The book has given a word to the language; that affected word-placing style is known as euphuistic.

Here the pompous antithesis is evidently meant to caricature the peculiar Euphuistic sentence of court parlance.

Arbasto cannot cease gazing at her; he addresses to himself euphuistic speeches several pages long, but they do him no good.

They were careful by choosing appropriate titles for their novels to publicly connect themselves with the euphuistic cycle.

He is euphuistic in his style, wise in his advice to his readers, and a great admirer of his own country.

Perverted symmetry of style is found in euphuistic hacks like Pettie.

Everybody speaks Euphuism, though classical allusion alone is not essentially Euphuistic.

The word may have been chosen for the euphuistic jingle it makes here with 'senses.'

The dialogue is less euphuistic, and therefore much more effective.