Is there such a word or not?
2007-11-24 17:35:05 · 14 answers · asked by aspi f 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
While there isn't a word specifically designated for such people, I would call them: "Showoffs."
2007-11-24 17:40:41 · answer #1 · answered by Beach Saint 7 · 0⤊ 4⤋
SESQUIPEDALIAN is one who uses big words (not necessarily excessively)
verbose is adj. meaning using lots of words, poss. big words. But it is not the person who speaks this way.
Circumlocution is speech that is indirect, talking all around a subject but not to the point. If there were a word circumlocutor, that still doesn't mean user of too many big words.
pedantic gets pretty close: adj. characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules: a pedantic attention to details. Synonyms for pedantic are academic, bookish, donnish, scholastic. These adjectives mean marked by a narrow, often tiresome focus on or display of learning and especially its trivial aspects: a pedantic writing style; an academic insistence on precision; a bookish vocabulary; donnish refinement of speech; scholastic and excessively subtle reasoning.
A pedant would be a person who writes or speaks pedantically.
2007-11-24 18:30:06 · answer #2 · answered by Lillian T 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Big Words To Impress
2016-11-08 06:38:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
bombast - speech too pompous for an occasion; pretentious words.
After checking I find that bombast refers to the speech itself rather than a person.
As an alternative, 'bluffer' might be close. A bluffer is someone who puts on a false display of confidence. I know people like that in my line of work. They pretend to know what they are talking about by using 'big' or 'complex' words for effect without knowing their meanings.
'Grandstander' is similar to 'bluffer' in that someone puts on a showy performance for the applause and admiration of bystanders or spectators. Words could be part of that performance.
If these suggestions are not acceptable I don't know what else would be appropriate, so I would have to say there isn't a word for this.
My apologies.
2007-11-24 17:39:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
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bombastic refers to a person who uses unnecessarily big words and ends up sounding pretentious and full of himself.
2016-04-08 11:26:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sesquipedalian.
2016-03-14 01:01:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Grandiloquent - The use of big fancy words; usually intended to impress.
2014-07-14 04:25:01 · answer #7 · answered by Vicki 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
pretentious - adj. pompous, showy
ostentation - n. vain-glorious display; showing off
2007-11-24 19:47:37 · answer #8 · answered by ___ 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
bombastic ; verbose
2007-11-24 18:11:31 · answer #9 · answered by Dave aka Spider Monkey 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
for me blabla mouth
2007-11-24 20:01:26 · answer #10 · answered by loula 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋