stiffly dignified or formal, as speech or literary style; pompous.

Architecture . (of an arch) resting on imposts treated in part as downward continuations of the arch.

adjective

genuine , honest , true

adjective

affected , angular , aureate , bombastic , constrained , decorous , egotistic , euphuistic , flowery , forced , formal , genteel , grandiloquent , high-flown , high-sounding , inflated , labored , magniloquent , mincing , overblown , pedantic , pompous , prim , rhetorical , sonorous , stiff , unnatural , wooden , buckram , starchy , artificial , awkward , grandiose , highflown , stuffy