aeolistic
aeolistic is the alternative form of Aeolistic.
Adjective capitalized: Aeolistic
Aeolistic (comparative more Aeolistic, superlative most Aeolistic)
- Pertaining to superfluous rhetorical flourishes; long-winded; bombastic.
- The propagandists, advertisers, diplomats, lawyers, politicians, and academicians rank high in the Aeolistic hierarchy, and their distorted and empty pronouncements currently play an important role in determining and forming our system of values and beliefs.1965, Arnold M. Ludwig, The importance of lying, page 121
- This makes the narrator intentionally complex: "The Aeolistic narrator is a historian whose work involves, as an allegory, a satiric attack on political Aeolism and includes, as a casebook of bombast, a similar attack on Aeolistic historians..."1972, James Leslie Woodress, American Literary Scholarship, page 181
Forms of aeolistic
| comparative | more aeolistic |
|---|---|
| superlative | most aeolistic |
| comparative | more Aeolistic |
| superlative | most Aeolistic |
| alternative form | aeolistic |
Origin of aeolistic
Coined by Jonathan Swift from Aeolus, the Greek god of wind.
Questions about aeolistic
- What does aeolistic mean?
- Aeolistic means pertaining to superfluous rhetorical flourishes; long-winded; bombastic.
- What is aeolistic the alternative form of?
- Aeolistic is the alternative form of Aeolistic.
- What part of speech is aeolistic?
- Aeolistic is an adjective.
Words near aeolistic in the dictionary
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