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EUPHUISTIC

Definition: EUPHUISTIC

EUPHUISTIC

Adjective

1. Belonging to the euphuists, or euphuism; affectedly refined.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Synonyms within Context: EUPHUISTIC

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Inelegance

Adjective: inelegant, graceless, ungraceful; harsh, abrupt; dry, stiff, cramped, formal, guinde; forced, labored; artificial, mannered, ponderous; awkward, uncourtly, unpolished; turgid; affected, euphuistic; barbarous, uncouth, grotesque, rude, crude, halting; offensive to ears polite.

Ornament

Adjective: ornament; Verb: beautified; ornate, florid, rich, flowery; euphuistic, euphemistic; sonorous; high-sounding, big-sounding; inflated, swelling, tumid; turgid, turgescent; pedantic, pompous, stilted; orotund; high flown, high flowing; sententious, rhetorical, declamatory; grandiose; grandiloquent, magniloquent, altiloquent; sesquipedal, sesquipedalian; Johnsonian, mouthy; bombastic; fustian; frothy, flashy, flaming.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translations: EUPHUISTIC

Language Translations for "EUPHUISTIC"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Italian

  

eufuistico, affettato (affected, assumed, Dandy, finical, foppish, genteel, labored, laboured, mincing, niminy-piminy, pretty-pretty, prim, prissy, sliced). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

euphuisticay

   

Romanian

  

preţios (affected, bombastic, costly, dear, flatulent, golden, grandiose, mincing, namby-pamby, niminy-piminy, ornate, precious, valuable, valued), afectat (affected, affectedly, Arty, curious, demure, demurely, far fetched, finical, finicking, gushing, highfalutin, highfaluting, high-flown, lackadaisical, La-di-da, mannered, miminy-piminy, mincing, namby-pamby, niminy-piminy, preciously, pretty, primly, recherche, scenic, self conscious, stilted, studied, swollen, theatrical). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yapmacıklı bir dille söylenen, süslü ifadelerle yazılan. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

kiểu cách (fashion, frill, fussy, lardy-dardy, mannered, precious, preciously), cầu kỳ (finical, finicking, finicky, finikin, laboured, overwrought). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: EUPHUISTIC

Derivations

Words beginning with "EUPHUISTIC": euphuistically. (additional references)


Misspellings

"EUPHUISTIC" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: euphausiid, euphistic. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "EUPHUISTIC"

Words rhyming with "EUPHUISTIC" (pronounced 'Eu`phu*is"tic'): Absolutistic, Acatalectic, Acataleptic, Acephalocystic, Acetic, Acherontic, Acroteleutic, Adiaphoristic, Agrestic, Albinistic, Altruistic, Amnestic, Amphiblastic, Amyloplastic, Anacamptic, Anacathartic, Anachronistic, Anaclastic, Anaglyptic, Analectic, Analeptic, Anamnestic, Anapestic, Anaplastic, Anapodeictic, Anastaltic, Anatreptic, Animistic, Annalistic, Antapoplectic, Antarctic, Antephialtic, Antepileptic, Anthelmintic, Antiapoplectic, Anticlastic, Antiephialtic, Antiepileptic, Antigalastic, Antiorgastic, Antiperistaltic, Antiplastic, Antiscorbutic, Antispastic, Antonomastic, Antorgastic, Aoristic, Aortic, Aphlogistic, Aphotic. (additional references)

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Anagrams: EUPHUISTIC

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-h-i-i-p-s-t-u-u"

-2 letters: euphuist.

-3 letters: pitches.

-4 letters: chutes, cities, cuties, cutups, ethics, iciest, itches, pities, putsch, schuit, septic, tusche, tushie.

-5 letters: cesti, chest, chips, chits, chute, cites, cuish, cutes, cutie, cutis, cutup, epics, ethic, etuis, heist, ictus, pechs, phuts, piste, pitch, piths, puces, scute, sepic, setup, shute, situp, spice, spite, stich, stipe, stupe, suite, teuch, tipis, upset.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-h-i-i-p-s-t-u-u"
 

+4 letters: euphuistically.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: EUPHUISTIC


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 55 50 48 55 49 53 54 49 43

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.    ..-    .--.    ....    ..-    ..    ...    -    ..    -.-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01010101 01010000 01001000 01010101 01001001 01010011 01010100 01001001 01000011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#85 &#80 &#72 &#85 &#73 &#83 &#84 &#73 &#67

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0055 0050 0048 0055 0049 0053 0054 0049 0043

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

39555042554353544337

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Derivations
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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