ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

digress, ramble, battre la campagne [Fr.], beat about the bush, perorate, spin a long
yarn, protract; spin out, swell out, draw out; battologize † .
Adj. diffuse, profuse; wordy, verbose, largiloquent † , copious, exuberant, pleonastic,
lengthy; longsome † , long-winded, longspun † , long drawn out; spun out, protracted, prolix,
prosing, maundering; circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious † , roundabout; digressive;
discursive, excursive; loose; rambling episodic; flatulent, frothy.
Adv. diffusely &c adj.; at large, in extenso [Lat.]; about it and about it.
574. Vigor -- N. vigor, power, force; boldness, raciness &c adj.; intellectual, force; spirit,
point, antithesis, piquance, piquancy; verve, glow, fire, warmth; strong language; gravity,
sententiousness; elevation, loftiness, sublimity.
eloquence; command of words, command of language.
Adj. vigorous, nervous, powerful, forcible, trenchant, incisive, impressive; sensational.
spirited, lively, glowing, sparkling, racy, bold, slashing; pungent, piquant, full of
point, pointed, pithy, antithetical; sententious.
lofty, elevated, sublime; eloquent; vehement, petulant, impassioned; poetic.
Adv. in glowing terms, in good set terms, in no measured terms.
Phr. thoughts that breath and words that burn [Gray].
575. Feebleness -- N. feebleness &c adj..
Adj. feeble, bald, tame, meager, jejune, vapid, bland, trashy, lukewarm, cold, frigid,
poor, dull, dry, languid; colorless, enervated; proposing, prosy, prosaic; unvaried,
monotonous, weak, washy, wishy-washy; sketchy, slight.
careless, slovenly, loose, lax (negligent) 460; slipshod, slipslop † ; inexact; puerile,
childish; flatulent; rambling &c (diffuse) 573.
576. Plainness -- N. plainness &c adj.; simplicity, severity; plain terms, plain English;
Saxon English; household words
V. call a spade 'a spade'; plunge in medias res; come to the point.
Adj. plain, simple; unornamented, unadorned, unvarnished; homely, homespun; neat;
severe, chaste, pure, Saxon; commonplace, matter-of-fact, natural, prosaic.
dry, unvaried, monotonous &c 575.
Adv. in plain terms, in plain words, in plain English, in plain common parlance; pointblank.
577. Ornament -- N. ornament; floridness c † .
adj.. turgidity, turgescence † ; altiloquence &c adj. † ; declamation, teratology † ; wellrounded
periods; elegance &c 578; orotundity.
inversion, antithesis, alliteration, paronomasia; figurativeness &c (metaphor) 521.
flourish; flowers of speech, flowers of rhetoric; frills of style, euphuism † , euphemism.
big-sounding words, high-sounding words; macrology † , sesquipedalia verba [Lat.],
Alexandrine; inflation, pretension; rant, bombast, fustian, prose run mad; fine writing;
sesquipedality † ; Minerva press.
phrasemonger; euphuist † , euphemist.
V. ornament, overlay with ornament, overcharge; smell of the lamp.