johnsonian

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Johnsonian \John*so"ni*an\, a.
   Pertaining to or resembling Dr. Johnson or his style;
   pompous; inflated.
   [1913 Webster]
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
48 Moby Thesaurus words for "Johnsonian":
      Gongoresque, affected, bedizened, big-sounding, convoluted,
      declamatory, elevated, euphuistic, flamboyant, flaming, flashy,
      flaunting, fulsome, garish, gaudy, grandiloquent, grandiose,
      grandisonant, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding,
      highfalutin, inkhorn, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty, lurid,
      magniloquent, meretricious, orotund, ostentatious, overdone,
      overelaborate, overinvolved, overwrought, pedantic, pompous,
      pretentious, rhetorical, sensational, sensationalistic,
      sententious, showy, sonorous, stilted, tall, tortuous
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