#575.  Feebleness. —­ N. feebleness &c. adj. 
     Adj. feeble, bald, tame, meager, jejune, vapid, bland, trashy,
lukewarm, cold, frigid, poor, dull, dry, languid; colorless, enervated; proposing, prosy, prosaic; unvaried, monotonous, weak, washy, wishy-washy; sketchy, slight.
     careless, slovenly, loose, lax (negligent) 460; slipshod,
slipslop[obs3]; inexact; puerile, childish; flatulent; rambling &c. (diffuse) 573.

     #576.  Plainness. —­ N. plainness &c. adj.; simplicity, severity; plain
terms, plain English; Saxon English; household words
     V. call a spade “a spade”; plunge in medias res; come to the point. 
     Adj. plain, simple; unornamented, unadorned, unvarnished; homely,
homespun; neat; severe, chaste, pure, Saxon; commonplace, matter-of-fact, natural, prosaic.
     dry, unvaried,monotonous &c. 575. 
     Adv. in plain terms, in plain words, in plain English, in plain common
parlance; point-blank.

     #577.  Ornament. —­ N. ornament; floridness c[obs3]. adj. turgidity,
turgescence[obs3]; altiloquence &c. adj[obs3].; declamation, teratology|!; well-rounded periods; elegance &c. 578; orotundity.
     inversion, antithesis, alliteration, paronomasia; figurativeness &c.
(metaphor) 521.
     flourish; flowers of speech, flowers of rhetoric; frills of style,
euphuism[obs3], euphemism.
     big-sounding words, high-sounding words; macrology[obs3],
sesquipedalia verba[Lat], Alexandrine; inflation, pretension; rant, bombast, fustian, prose run mad; fine writing; sesquipedality[obs3]; Minerva press.
     phrasemonger; euphuist[obs3], euphemist. 
     V. ornament, overlay with ornament, overcharge; smell of the lamp. 
     Adj. ornament &c. v.; beautified &c. 847; ornate, florid, rich,
flowery; euphuistic[obs3], euphemistic; sonorous; high-sounding, big-sounding; inflated, swelling, tumid; turgid, turgescent; pedantic, pompous, stilted; orotund; high flown, high flowing; sententious, rhetorical, declamatory; grandiose; grandiloquent, magniloquent, altiloquent[obs3]; sesquipedal[obs3], sesquipedalian; Johnsonian, mouthy; bombastic; fustian; frothy, flashy, flaming.
     antithetical, alliterative; figurative &c. 521; artificial &c.
(inelegant) 579. 
     Adv. ore rutundo[Lat].

     #578.  Elegance. —­ N. elegance, purity, grace, ease; gracefulness,
readiness &c. adj.; concinnity[obs3], euphony, numerosity[obs3]; Atticism[obs3], classicalism[obs3], classicism.
     well rounded periods, well turned periods, flowing periods; the right
word in the right place; antithesis &c. 577.
     purist. 
     V. point an antithesis, round a period. 
     Adj. elegant, polished, classical, Attic, correct, Ciceronian,
artistic; chaste, pure, Saxon, academical[obs3].
     graceful, easy, readable, fluent, flowing, tripping; unaffected,
natural, unlabored[obs3]; mellifluous; euphonious, euphemism, euphemistic; numerose|, rhythmical.
     felicitous, happy, neat; well put, neatly put, well expressed, neatly
expressed