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Definitions: Euphuism |
EuphuismNoun1. Any artificially elegant style of language. 2. An elegant style of prose of the Elizabethan period; characterized by balance and antithesis and alliteration and extended similes with and allusions to nature and mythology. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "euphuism" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Affectation | Charlatanism, quackery, shallow profundity; pretension, airs, pedantry, purism, precisianism, euphuism; teratology; (altiloquence). |
Inelegance | Noun: inelegance; stiffness; Adjective: "unlettered Muse"; barbarism; slang; solecism; mannerism; (affectation); euphuism; fustian; cacophony; words that break the teeth, words that dislocate the jaw; marinism. |
Ornament | Flourish; flowers of speech, flowers of rhetoric; frills of style, euphuism, euphemism. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Euphuism |
| English words defined with "euphuism": Euphuistic. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "euphuism": Spadish Language. (references) |
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Albanian | stil i fryrë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | високопарен стил, евфуизъм. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | elegance (elegance, graciousness, neatness, smartness, sophistication, style). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | barokk prózastílus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | eufuismo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | euphuismay eufrásia. (various references) eufizm, stil foarte încãrcat. (various references) эвфуизм. (various references) eufuizam. (various references) eufuismo. (various references) konstlad stil. (various references) การประพันธ์แบบหนึ่งในศตวรรษที่ 16 และ 17 ที่มีการใช้โวหารแบบต่างๆ มากเกินไป. (various references) yapmacıklı bir dille yazma, süslü ifade. (various references) евфуїзм. (various references) văn kiểu cách, lối viết văn kiểu cách văn cầu kỳ, lối viết văn cầu kỳ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "euphuism": euphuisms. (additional references) | |
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"Euphuism" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Euphausia, eupherism, euphism, euphmism, euphumism, eupuism, Rumphius. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "euphuism" (pronounced 'Eu"phu*ism'): Abolitionism, Absenteeism, Absinthism, Absolutism, Academicism, Academism, Accidentalism, Achromatism, Acosmism, Acrobatism, Acrotism, Actinism, Adiaphorism, AEstheticism, Africanism, Agnosticism, Agonism, Agrarianism, Agriculturism, Albinism, Albinoism, Alcoholism, Alienism, Allodialism, Allomerism, Allomorphism, Allotheism, Alphabetism, Altruism, Amateurism, Americanism, Amorphism, Anabaptism, Anachorism, Anachronism, Anacrotism, Anagrammatism, Analogism, Anamorphism, Anarchism, Anathematism, Anatocism, Anatomism, Anchoretism, Andabatism, Aneurism, Anglicanism, Anglicism, Anglo-Catholicism, Anglo-Saxonism. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-i-m-p-s-u-u" | |
-3 letters: hemps, humps, humus, spume. | |
-4 letters: emus, hemp, hems, hies, hips, hues, hump, hums, imps, mesh, mise, muse, mush, pehs, phis, pies, pish, push, semi, shim, ship, simp, sipe, spue, sump, supe, umps. | |
-5 letters: ems, emu, hem, hep, hes, hie, him, hip, his, hue, hum, hup, imp, ism, mis, mus, peh, pes, phi, pie. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-i-m-p-s-u-u" | |
+1 letter: euphuisms. | |
+2 letters: euphoniums. | |
+5 letters: superhumanity. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 75 70 68 75 69 73 6D |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). ..- .--. .... ..- .. ... -- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01110101 01110000 01101000 01110101 01101001 01110011 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E u p h u i s m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0075 0070 0068 0075 0069 0073 006D |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3987827487758579 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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