Chapter Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties of Index by Roget's Thesaurus

(Phrase). Jus et norma loquendi.

(Verbs). To parse, conjugate, decline, inflect, punctuate.

(Adjectives). Grammatical, syntactic, inflexional.

• Solecism (Substantives), bad or false grammar, slip of the pen or tongue, bull, lapsus linguè, barbarism, colloquialism, vulgarism.

(Verbs). To use bad or faulty grammar, to solecise, or commit a solecism.

(Phrases). To murder the king's English; to break Priscian's head.

(Adjectives). Ungrammatical, colloquial, slipshod, incorrect, faulty, inaccurate.

• Style (Substantives), diction, phraseology, turn of expression, idiom, manner, strain, composition, authorship; stylist.

(Adjective). Stylistic.

(Phrase). Le style, c'est l'homme même.

Various Qualities of Style

• Perspicuity (Substantives), lucidity, lucidness, clearness, clarity, perspicacity, plain speaking, intelligibility 518.

(Adjectives). Perspicuous, clear, lucid, intelligible, plain, transparent, explicit.

• Obscurity (Substantives), ambiguity, etc., see Unintelligibility 519, involution, involvedness, vagueness.

(Adjectives). Obscure, confused, ambiguous, vague, unintelligible, etc., involved, wire-drawn, tortuous.

• Conciseness (Substantives), brevity, terseness, compression, condensation, concision, closeness, laconism, pithiness, succinctness, quaintness, stiffness, ellipsis.

(Verbs). To be concise, etc., to condense, compress, abridge, abbreviate, cut short, curtail, abstract.

(Adjectives). Concise, brief, short, terse, laconic, sententious, gnomic, snappy, pithy, nervous, succinct, guindé, stiff, compact, close, cramped, elliptical, telegraphic, lapidary.

(Adverbs). In short, briefly, in a word, to the point, for short.

(Phrases). The long and short of it; multum in parvo; it comes to this; for shortness' sake; to put it in a nutshell.

• Diffuseness (Substantives), prolixity, verbosity, pleonasm, tautology, copiousness, exuberance, laxity, looseness, verbiage, flow, flow of words, fluency, copia verborum, redundancy, redundance, digression, circumlocution, ambages, periphrasis, episode, expletive, see Length 200, journalese.

(Verbs). To be diffuse, etc., to expatiate, enlarge, launch out, dilate, expand, spin out, swell out, inflate, dwell, harp on, descant, digress, ramble, rant.

(Phrases). To beat about the bush; to spin a long yarn.

(Adjectives). Diffuse, wordy, verbose, prolix, copious, exuberant, flowing, fluent, bombastic, lengthy, long - winded, prosy, spun out, long - spun, loose, lax, slovenly, washy, slipslop, sloppy, frothy, flatulent, windy, digressive, discursive, excursive, tripping, rambling, ambagious, pleonastic, redundant, periphrastic, episodic, circumlocutory, roundabout.

Minute, detailed, particular, circumstantial.

(Adverbs). In detail, in extenso, about it and about, currente calamo, usque ad nauseam.