DECLAMATORY Synonyms: 78 Similar and Opposite Words

declamatory

adjective

Definition of declamatory

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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 Indeed, the narrator is resigned to death—if not the declamatory death of her friend in the lecture hall, at least the fact of death happening elsewhere, on the global stage. — Maya Binyam, New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2026 These sound particularly good in Morgan’s mouth, with his non-actory, declamatory way of speaking. — Television Critic, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2026 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

Recent Examples of Synonyms for declamatory

Adjective

The filing also says the lawsuit against Alvarez targets political opinions and rhetorical statements that are protected by the First Amendment.

— Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 19 Aug. 2026
Research links rhetorical tactics to perceptions of charisma.

— Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of rhetorical

Adjective

When Kent Jones was a critic at Film Comment, he was known for, among many other things, his eloquent and insightful analyses of performance.

— Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 4 Aug. 2026
What’s far more eloquent is the episode with the witch Circe (a terrific Samantha Morton), whose habit of tricking and transforming men into animals is rendered in evocatively physical, body-horror-esque imagery.

— Alison Willmore, Vulture, 15 July 2026

Definition of eloquent

Adjective

In both cases, there is something at once magisterial and leadenly self-regarding about the melancholic rhythms of Cusk’s prose, with its stiff and stately syntax and its utter impatience with the real vagaries of difference.

— Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2026
As Ross immediately calls out, this mixture of a child’s game with a sense of politesse, set to a stately, period-appropriate Vivaldi concerto, absolutely does feel like a game that might have been played in an 18th-century court.

— Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of stately

Adjective

Sure enough, during our interview, her answers betray a bombastic staccato honed on the stump.

— Charlie Campbell, Time, 11 Aug. 2026
Fans have in some instances railed against commentator Alexi Lalas, a veteran analyst, player and soccer executive who has been accused of being too bombastic, and even partisan during his time on air.

— Brian Steinberg, Variety, 22 July 2026

Definition of bombastic

Adjective

Here’s one book written by this aristocratic Thai woman almost 80 years ago.

— Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 18 Aug. 2026
In it, a twelve-year-old boy, Cosimo, rebels against his aristocratic family, and the Enlightenment’s false divide between nature and culture, by climbing a holm oak and spending his life in the canopy.

— Eric Klinenberg, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of aristocratic

Adjective

That wasn’t Newsom’s only oratorical slip-up, although the second one says more about the larger Democratic Party than anything else.

— Douglas Schoen, Oc Register, 26 Feb. 2026
With his height and his oratorical flourishes, Jackson was a charismatic figure who led protests in Greensboro.

— Johanna Neuman, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2026

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