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

Adj. ornament &c v.; beautified &c 847; ornate, florid, rich, flowery; euphuistic † ,
euphemistic; sonorous; high-sounding, big-sounding; inflated, swelling, tumid; turgid,
turgescent; pedantic, pompous, stilted; orotund; high flown, high flowing; sententious,
rhetorical, declamatory; grandiose; grandiloquent, magniloquent, altiloquent † ;
sesquipedal † , sesquipedalian; Johnsonian, mouthy; bombastic; fustian; frothy, flashy,
flaming.
antithetical, alliterative; figurative &c 521; artificial &c (inelegant) 579.
Adv. ore rutundo [Lat.].
578. Elegance -- N. elegance, purity, grace, ease; gracefulness, readiness &c adj.;
concinnity † , euphony, numerosity † ; Atticism † , classicalism † , classicism.
well rounded periods, well turned periods, flowing periods; the right word in the right
place; antithesis &c 577.
purist [Slang].
V. point an antithesis, round a period.
Adj. elegant, polished, classical, Attic, correct, Ciceronian, artistic; chaste, pure, Saxon,
academical † .
graceful, easy, readable, fluent, flowing, tripping; unaffected, natural, unlabored † ;
mellifluous; euphonious, euphemism, euphemistic; numerose † , rhythmical.
felicitous, happy, neat; well put, neatly put, well expressed, neatly expressed
579. Inelegance -- N. inelegance; stiffness &c adj.; unlettered Muse [Gray]; barbarism;
slang &c 563; solecism &c 568; mannerism &c (affectation) 855; euphuism † ; fustian &c
577; cacophony; words that break the teeth, words that dislocate the jaw; marinism † .
V. be inelegant &c adj..
Adj. inelegant, graceless, ungraceful; harsh, abrupt; dry, stiff, cramped, formal, guinde
[Fr.]; forced, labored; artificial, mannered, ponderous; awkward, uncourtly † , unpolished;
turgid &c 577; affected, euphuistic † ; barbarous, uncouth, grotesque, rude, crude, halting;
offensive to ears polite.
2. Spoken Language
580. Voice -- N. voice; vocality † ; organ, lungs, bellows; good voice, fine voice, powerful
voice &c (loud) 404; musical voice &c 413; intonation; tone of voice &c (sound) 402.
vocalization; cry &c 411; strain, utterance, prolation † ; exclamation, ejaculation,
vociferation, ecphonesis † ; enunciation, articulation; articulate sound, distinctness;
clearness, of articulation; stage whisper; delivery.
accent, accentuation; emphasis, stress; broad accent, strong accent, pure accent, native
accent, foreign accent; pronunciation.
[Word similarly pronounced] homonym.
orthoepy † ; cacoepy † ; euphony &c (melody) 413.
gastriloquism † , ventriloquism; ventriloquist; polyphonism † , polyphonist † .
[Science of voice] phonology &c (sound) 402.