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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Declamatory \De*clam"a*to*ry\, a. [L. declamatorius: cf. F.
     d['e]clamatoire.]
     1. Pertaining to declamation; treated in the manner of a
        rhetorician; as, a declamatory theme.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Characterized by rhetorical display; pretentiously
        rhetorical; without solid sense or argument; bombastic;
        noisy; as, a declamatory way or style.
        [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Declamatory \De*clam"a*to*ry\, a. [L. declamatorius: cf. F.
     d['e]clamatoire.]
     1. Pertaining to declamation; treated in the manner of a
        rhetorician; as, a declamatory theme.
  
     2. Characterized by rhetorical display; pretentiously
        rhetorical; without solid sense or argument; bombastic;
        noisy; as, a declamatory way or style.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  declamatory
       adj : ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk";
             "tumid political prose" [syn: bombastic, large, orotund,
              tumid, turgid]

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  declamatory
     a.
     1 Having the quality of a declamation.
     2 pretentiously lofty in style; bombastic.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  declamatory
     a.
     1 Having the quality of a declamation.
     2 pretentiously lofty in style; bombastic.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  declamatory
     a.
     1 Having the quality of a declamation.
     2 pretentiously lofty in style; bombastic.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  declamatory
     a.
     1 Having the quality of a declamation.
     2 pretentiously lofty in style; bombastic.

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  declamatory
     Englanti a.
     mahtipontinen, korkealentoinen

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Declamatory /dɪklˈamətˌəɹi/
  حماسيّ

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  declamatory /dɪklˈamətˌəɹi/
  řečnický

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  declamatory /dɪklˈamətəɹi/
  deklamatorisch, pathetisch 

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-hin ]

  declamatory /dɪklˈamətˌəɹi/ 
  1. शब्दाडम्बरपूर्ण
        "His speech was quite declamatory."

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  declamatory /dɪklˈamətˌəɹi/
  nagyhangúan szónokias

From English-Svenska FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-swe ]

  declamatory //dɪˈklæmətɹi// 
  deklamatorisk
  like a declamation

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  declamatory /dɪklˈamətˌəɹi/
  1. (  hitabete ait
  2. tantanalı, heyecanlandırıcı (konuşma tarzı)

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  55 Moby Thesaurus words for "declamatory":
     Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, aureate, bedizened,
     big-sounding, bombastic, convoluted, elevated, elocutionary,
     eloquent, euphuistic, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flaunting,
     flowery, forensic, fulsome, garish, gaudy, grandiloquent,
     grandiose, grandisonant, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying,
     high-sounding, highfalutin, inkhorn, labyrinthine, lexiphanic,
     lofty, lurid, magniloquent, meretricious, oratorical, orotund,
     ostentatious, overdone, overelaborate, overinvolved, overwrought,
     pedantic, pompous, pretentious, rhetorical, sensational,
     sensationalistic, sententious, showy, sonorous, stilted, tall,
     tortuous
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  a. 演说口吻的,雄辩家式的,朗读式的;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     a. 演说口吻的,雄辩家式的,朗读式的

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