- 2. Rhetorical, grandiloquent, inflated, bombastic, swelling, pompous, turgid, pretentious, high-flown,
high-sounding, fustian.
Declaration, n.
- 1. Affirmation, assertion, asseveration, averment, protestation, avowal.
- 2. Proclamation, publication, public or official announcement.
Declarative, a. See declaratory.
Declaratory, a.
- 1. Expressive, affirmative, enunciative, enunciatory, assertive, declarative.
- 2. Explanatory, expository, declarative.
Declare, v. a. Affirm, assert, aver, asseverate, state, proclaim, publish, promulgate, communicate, announce, utter, make known.
Declare, v. n. Make a declaration, come out, pronounce, proclaim one’s self.
Declension, n.
- 1. Decline, deterioration, degeneracy, decay, diminution, falling off.
- 2. (Gram.) Inflection, variation; mode of inflection.
- 3. Refusal, declination, declinature, nonacceptance.
Declination, n.
- 1. Bending, inclination.
- 2. Deterioration. See declension, 1.
- 3. Deviation, departure, oblique movement.
- 4. Declinature. See declension, 3.
Declinature, n. Refusal, non-acceptance, declination, declension.
Decline, v. n.
- 1. Lean downward, incline, slope.