adjective
- pertaining to or characterized by declamation.
- merely oratorical or rhetorical; stilted: a pompous, declamatory manner of speech.
adjective
- relating to or having the characteristics of a declamation
- merely rhetorical; empty and bombastic
1580s, from Latin declamatorius “pertaining to the practice of speaking,” from declamatus, past participle of declamare (see declaim).