| Sesquipedalian (a.) Measuring or containing a foot and a half; as, a sesquipedalian pygmy; -- sometimes humorously applied to long words. Thesaurus Entries Latinate, a mile long, awkward, bombastic, cramped, cumbrous, elephantine, extensive, far-flung, far-reaching, fargoing, forced, formal, grandiloquence, guinde, halting, hard word, heavy, inkhorn, interminable, jawbreaker, jawbreaking, labored, leaden, lengthy, lexiphanicism, long, long word, longish, longsome, lumbering, no end of, polysyllabic, polysyllable, pompous, ponderous, sesquipedal, stiff, stilted, tall, turgid, unwieldy, without end |