Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Bombastic; turgid; inflated.
Wiktionary
- adj. Using bombastic or pretentious wording or language.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Using, or interlarded with, pretentious words; bombastic.
Examples
“Via lexiphanic, a meme where you set your playlist on randomize, list a lyric from the first 25 songs that come up (without cheating) and invite people to guess the song.”
“Try it, and put your lexiphanic tendencies to good use for once.”
“I mean, if I know little about who I am how can my beloved readers connect to my lexiphanic narcissism?”
“El hero of sparta es un juegazo para el ipod touch por .99 usd lexiphanic @Crispotron i've been eyeing off hero of sparta.”
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“A third reason for waxing lexiphanic is to soften one's scurrility -- to abstract it so that one's audience does not immediately visualize an unpleasant image.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lexiphanic’.
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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phrontistery - l
from phrontistery.info
labarum, labefactation, labeorphily, labile, lability, labret, lac, laches, lacis, laic, lam?, lar and 496 more...
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List of Silly Words
A list of silly, strange, and generally unusual words.
decemnovenarianize, mammothrept, spaneria, spanogyny, lexiphanic, allorgasmia, marcous, leighster, psaphonic, exsibiliation, paralian, phobophobia and 24 more...
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Your Grandfather's Bad Old World
chicanery, ballyhoo, thaumaturgy, inveigle, wheedle, buncombe, balderdash, twaddle, fustian, lexiphanic, obstreperous, autochthonous and 1 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. II
cicurate, circumforaneous, codger, comiconomenclaturist, constable, contradistinction, contraindicated, counterpane, coxcomb, decalcomania, decanal, decoction and 307 more...
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Vega's Logophile Dictionary
Words I've heard/read in use, words being learnt, words that I want to eventually use in everyday language, words that are high-brow and elitist and scholarly and obscure, words that display the wo...
parsimonious, torpor, recalcitrant, plebeian, vitriol, gumption, augur, aestival, celerity, diaphanous, farrago, nonpareil and 287 more...
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summer words 2009
how many words can I make mine this summer?
largess, hoyden, catholic, fornicatress, quean, slattern, bildungsroman, sybaritic, descresent, nodus, frittle, callipygian and 529 more...
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kenspeckle's Words
kenspeckle, milquetoast, effluvium, kaboom, maelstrom, ennui, alpenglow, defenestration, schadenfreude, autochthonous, obstreperous, lachrymose and 124 more...
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For lexiphanes
Alright, all my fellow lexiphanes, the purpose of this list is to find words synonymous to lexiphanic... Come on, everybody! I bet we can reach 100!
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The word collector
My collection of words that are intriguing, but don't fit my other lists.
snailery, aplasia, postulant, aigrette, caravel, frigate, capeskin, suffusion, schist, varlet, sepulchral, anisotropy and 317 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3248 more...
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SimonW11's Words
rodomontadizing, skeevy, skelfy, bloviate, ephebophilia, carmagnole, copacetic, redacted, lexiphanic, wingnuttery, outlier, prolegomena and 23 more...
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wordy words
paronomasia, parisology, verbolatry, verbiage, lexiphanic, logomachy, logolept, prosodic, prosody, enjambment, caesura, tetrameter and 4 more...
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Word words
logolept, logomachy, lemma, lethologica, lexiphanic, lipogram, sesquipedalian, catachresis, paronomasia, verbiage, spoonerism, verbolatry and 5 more...
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Bux.
acerb, antiphon, aperçu, deferential, inamorata, peroration, umbrage, slattern, felonious, transmogrify, hierophant, cloacal and 24 more...
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Lexiphanic
quisquous, ataxy, lexiphanic, sesquipedalian, jactation, nugatory, jejune, heuristic, sciolist, facinorous, apostate, arcipluvian and 6 more...
Tweets
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kenspeckle here Jan 14, 2007
simonw11 Using bombastic or pretentious language. Jan 8, 2007