DECLAMATORY Synonyms: 78 Similar and Opposite Words

declamatory

adjective

as in rhetorical

formal expressing feelings or opinions in a way that is loud and forceful Her declamatory manner of speech inspired some but irritated others. declamatory speeches/statements

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Recent Examples of declamatory The cast features nonprofessional actors drawn from the area; their declamatory style of performance, along with Mateus’s hieratic images, endow the movie’s dramatic realism with the power of myth. 19. —

Justin Chang, New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2025 Yet the power in these two performances isn’t supplemented by much texture in the stern, declamatory writing: There’s little sense of how this relationship functions, or once functioned, outside these particularly fraught scenes. —

Guy Lodge, Variety, 9 Aug. 2025 The music is stark, declamatory, and ironic in its use of gentler major-key harmonies for some of the darkest lines. —

Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025 The main theme, a declamatory seven-note figure, later becomes the basis for a fantastical cadenza on vibraphone, played poetically by Yeh. —

Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 31 May 2024 See All Example Sentences for declamatory

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Adjective

Hiding in plain sight Pennsylvania, like many northern states, responded to the Declaration of Independence’s rhetorical commitment to liberty by enacting a gradual emancipation law.

— Carolyn Zola, The Conversation, 11 June 2026
The invocation of self-evident truths and inherent rights is a warrant for the destruction of existing order, a rhetorical erasure not only of the divine right of kings but also, more generally, of the prerogatives of power.

— New York Times, New York Times, 9 June 2026