ostentatious (adj.)
- affected
- ambitious
- baroque
- boastful
- braggart
- busy
- chichi
- classy
- convoluted
- declamatory
- elaborate
- elegant
- elevated
- fancy
- fine
- flamboyant
- flaming
- flash
- flashy
- florid
- flossy
- flowery
- frilly
- fulsome
- fussy
- garish
- gaudy
- grandiloquent
- grandiose
- high-flown
- high-sounding
- high-toned
- highfalutin
- highfaluting
- labored
- labyrinthine
- lofty
- lurid
- luxuriant
- luxurious
- magniloquent
- meretricious
- moresque
- ornate
- orotund
- overdone
- overwrought
- pedantic
- picturesque
- pompous
- pretentious
- pretty-pretty
- rhetorical
- rich
- rococo
- sensational
- sensationalistic
- sententious
- showy
- sonorous
- splashy
- stilted
- swank
- tall
- theatrical
- tony
- tortuous
- vain
- vainglorious
Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
