declamatory

[ dih-klam-uh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee ]

adjective

1. pertaining to or characterized by declamation.
2. merely oratorical or rhetorical; stilted:

   a pompous, declamatory manner of speech.

declamatory

/ dɪˈklæmətərɪ; -trɪ /

adjective

1. relating to or having the characteristics of a declamation
2. merely rhetorical; empty and bombastic

Derived Forms

• deˈclamatorily, adverb

Other Words From

• nonde·clama·tory adjective
• super·de·clama·tory adjective
• unde·clama·tory adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of declamatory¹

1575–85; < Latin dēclāmātōrius, equivalent to dēclāmā ( re ) ( declaim ) + -tōrius -tory ¹

Example Sentences

All written in a similar mode: authoritative, declamatory, distant, dispassionate, impersonal, and (allegedly) neutral.

From The Daily Beast

Another may not be wrong in his facts, but have a declamatory or sophistical vein in him, much to be guarded against.

From Project Gutenberg

The simple old folk songs often suggested them and his style, like that of Wagner, is often declamatory.

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His delivery was far from animated, and his intonation was rather conversational than declamatory.

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He has run himself into his old declamatory way, and almost forgotten that he was now setting up for a moral poet.

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He had never made a speech in his life, and had no sort of confidence in his declamatory powers.

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