Words and phrases that have a meaning related to sesquipedalian: (125 results)
Often used in the same context:
polysyllabic, denotative, hemingwayesque, latinate, lexicographical, rebarbative, onomatopoetic, prolix, dialectal, subjunctive, ineloquent, split infinitive, adjectival, intransitive, delphic, gnomic, unpoetic, jamesian, dadaist, interrogative, nancy mitford, aphoristic, nabokovian, glottal, lumpish, brooklynese, mot juste, bromidic, orotund, syntactical, teacherly, psychoanalytical, genitive, karl von clausewitz, homiletic, jejune, abstract noun, terza rima, adverbial, hypochondriacal, jesuitical, subjunctive mood, sententious, womanish, belles lettres, prepositional, unhyphenated, oracular, monkish, max beerbohm, ferdinand de saussure, pedantic, coitus interruptus, grammatical, intransitive verb, past participle, syllabic, william hazlitt, chaucerian, connotative, sophistic, incommunicable, neurasthenic, male chauvinist pig, midrashic, misunderestimate, bardic, homophonic, captious, schoolmasterly, ratlike, reflexive pronoun, cloddish, transcendentalist, nouveau roman, shakespearean sonnet, lit crit, onanistic, prosodic, ungrammatical, sarky, pietistic, soren kierkegaard, metrical, johnsonian, hortatory, nonliterary, epicene, deconstructionist, bons mots, swiftian, nasal twang, pompous, overdetermined, holmesian, declarative sentence, textualist, unmusical, unmannerly, cosmopolite, quavery, goatish, grandiloquent, euphonious, latinized, mellifluous, sounding, unmeaning, descriptive, meaningless, abbreviated, colloquial, commendatory, euphemistic, highfalutin, highflown, idiomatic, magniloquent, monosyllabic, nonsense
More general:
polysyllabic word, polysyllable
Synonyms:
Also try:long, pretentious, sesquipedalia
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