Meaning of GRANDILOQUENT
| Pronunciation: | | gran'dilukwunt
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- [adj] puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
- [adj] lofty in style; "he engages in so much tall talk, one never really realizes what he is saying"
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| | Synonyms: | | magniloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous, pretentious, rhetorical, tall |
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| | Definition: | | \Gran*dil"o*quent\, a. [L. grandis grand + logui
to speak.]
Speaking in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic.
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| | Related Terms: | | affected, aggrandized, amplified, aureate, ballyhooed, bedizened, big-sounding, bloated, bombastic, convoluted, declamatory, disproportionate, elevated, euphuistic, exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flatulent, flaunting, flowery, formal, fulsome, garish, gassy, gaudy, Gongoresque, grandiose, grandisonant, highfalutin, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, hyperbolic, inflated, inkhorn, inordinate, Johnsonian, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty, lurid, magnified, magniloquent, meretricious, orotund, ostentatious, overblown, overdone, overdrawn, overelaborate, overemphasized, overemphatic, overestimated, overgreat, overinvolved, overlarge, overpraised, oversold, overstated, overstressed, overwrought, pedantic, pompous, pontifical, pretentious, prodigal, profuse, puffed, rhetorical, self-important, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, showy, solemn, sonorous, stilted, stretched, stuffy, superlative, swollen, tall, tortuous, touted, tumid, turgid |
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