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fustian

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of fustian

marked by the use of impressive-sounding but mostly meaningless words and phrases

  • one of those fustian odes to patriotic duty that were so beloved by school teachers
Synonyms of fustian

bombastic, flatulent, gaseous, gassy, grandiloquent, oratorical, orotund, rhetorical (also rhetoric), windy
Words Related to fustian

bloated, elevated, florid, flowery, grandiose, highfalutin (also hifalutin), high-flown, high-sounding, inflated, lofty, ornate, pompous, pontifical, pretentious, stilted, tumid, turgid

overdone, verbose, wordy
Near Antonyms of fustian

eloquent, well-spoken

bald, direct, matter-of-fact, plain, plainspoken, simple, stark, straightforward, unadorned, unaffected, unpretentious
Antonyms of fustian

unrhetorical

fustian

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of fustian

language that is impressive-sounding but not meaningful or sincere

  • a speech awash in old-fashioned fustian and bereft of all substance
Synonyms of fustian

bombast, gas, grandiloquence, hot air, oratory, rhetoric, verbiage, wind
Words Related to fustian

claptrap, drivel, gibberish, hogwash, humbug, jabberwocky, jazz, moonshine, nonsense

affectedness, floweriness, grandiosity, loftiness, pomposity, pretension, pretentiousness

garrulity, garrulousness, verboseness, verbosity, windiness, wordiness

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