Grandiloquent \Gran*dil"o*quent\, a. [L. grandis grand + logui
to speak.]
Speaking in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
grandiloquent
adj 1: lofty in style; "he engages in so much tall talk, one never
really realizes what he is saying" [syn: magniloquent,
tall]
2: puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful
manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech";
"pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"-
Newsweek [syn: overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous]
WordNet (r) 2.0
92 Moby Thesaurus words for "grandiloquent":
Gongoresque, Johnsonian, 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, grandiose, grandisonant,
high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, highfalutin,
hyperbolic, inflated, inkhorn, inordinate, 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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
magniloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous, tall
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