Grandiose \Gran"di*ose"\, a. [F. grandiose, It. grandioso. See
Grand.]
1. Impressive or elevating in effect; imposing; splendid;
striking; -- in a good sense.
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The tone of the parts was to be perpetually kept
down in order not to impair the grandiose effect of
the whole. --M. Arnold.
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The grandiose red tulips which grow wild. --C.
Kingsley.
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2. Characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor;
flaunting; turgid; bombastic; -- in a bad sense; as, a
grandiose style.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
grandiose
adj 1: impressive because of unnecessary largeness or grandeur;
used to show disapproval
2: affectedly genteel [syn: hifalutin, highfalutin, highfaluting,
hoity-toity, la-di-da]
WordNet (r) 2.0
103 Moby Thesaurus words for "grandiose":
Babylonian, Corinthian, Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected,
ambitious, august, awe-inspiring, awful, barbaric, bedizened,
big-sounding, bombastic, convoluted, cosmic, declamatory, deluxe,
elaborate, elegant, elevated, euphuistic, extravagant, fancy, fine,
flamboyant, flaming, flash, flashy, flaunting, florid, fulsome,
fustian, garish, gaudy, glorious, grand, grandiloquent,
grandisonant, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding,
highfalutin, histrionic, imposing, impressive, inflated, inkhorn,
labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty, lordly, lurid, luxurious,
magnificent, magniloquent, majestic, melodramatic, meretricious,
monumental, noble, orotund, ostentatious, overambitious, overdone,
overelaborate, overinvolved, overwhelming, overwrought, palatial,
pedantic, plush, pompous, posh, pretentious, princely, proud,
rhetorical, ritzy, royal, sensational, sensationalistic,
sententious, showy, sonorous, splendacious, splendid,
splendiferous, stately, stilted, sumptuous, superb, superfancy,
superfine, swank, swanky, swell, tall, tortuous, unfathomable,
utopian, vast, visionary
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
hifalutin, highfalutin, highfaluting, hoity-toity, la-di-da
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