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declamatory

/dɪˈklæmətɹi/

declamatory adjective: having the quality of a declamation.

Adjective

declamatory (comparative more declamatory, superlative most declamatory)

  1. Having the quality of a declamation.
  2. Pretentiously lofty in style; bombastic.
    • He is described as having spoken for nearly an hour with great confidence in a highly declamatory tone, and with studied action, impressing all present who had ever heard of Cicero or Hortensius with the belief that he had worked himself up into the notion of being one or both of them for the...1880, Henry James Nicoll, “Miscellaneous”, in Great Scholars. Buchanan, Bentley, Porson, Parr and Others., Edinburgh: Macniven & Wallace, page 204
    • Behind him an excitable Frenchman was holding forth in declamatory style to a group of astonished residents.1908, R. Forsythe, “Our Hippopotamus Hunt”, in The Wide World Magazine, volume XX, London: George Newnes, Ltd., page 400

declamatory meaning in Tamil and Bengali

declamatory in Tamil

அறிவிப்பு, உறுதி ஆவணம், உறுதி மொழி, சாற்றுரை

declamatory in Bengali

আবৃত্তির গুণ সম্পন্ন, চাকচিক্যময় গম্ভীর শৈলী সম্পন্ন, বাগাড়ম্বরপূর্ণ

Forms of declamatory

comparativemore declamatory
superlativemost declamatory

Origin of declamatory

Equivalent to declaim + -atory.

Words formed from declamatory

Questions about declamatory

What does declamatory mean?
Declamatory means having the quality of a declamation.
What is declamatory in Tamil?
Declamatory in Tamil is அறிவிப்பு, உறுதி ஆவணம், உறுதி மொழி. See Declamatory meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is declamatory?
Declamatory is an adjective.
How do you pronounce declamatory?
Declamatory is pronounced /dɪˈklæmətɹi/ (UK).

Words near declamatory in the dictionary

  1. declamations
  2. declamator
  3. declamatorily
  4. declamatoriness
  5. declamators
  6. declamatory
  7. declamp
  8. declamped
  9. declamping
  10. declamps
  11. Declan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: declamatory (page history and authors); declamatory (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); declamatory (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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