ornate language
Highly embellished speech
Ornate language is speech or writing that is highly decorated with elaborate vocabulary, complex syntax, and rhetorical flourishes.
The term usually carries a note of excess—language that calls attention to its own sophistication rather than serving clarity: His ornate language impressed no one who actually understood the subject.
The opposite of plain or direct speech.
- eloquentFluent and persuasive
- floridExcessively ornate or ruddy
- verboseMore words than necessary
- over the topExcessively theatrical or extreme
- metaphorImplied identity comparison
Romanticism · hyperbole · alliteration · assonance · embellished · simile · figure of speech · turns of phrase · personification · Baroque period · theatrical scripts · lyrical · Victorian era · gilded age · Renaissance literature · intricate · Elizabethan drama · speeches
- literary stylelyricism, diction, prose style, eloquence, word choice
- Servet-i FununFrench influence, art for art's sake
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Easily understood communication
plain speech · simple language · spare prose · colloquial language · vernacular
ornate languagecolloquial language
Informal everyday speech
everyday speech · conversational language · informal language · vernacular · common speech
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