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grandiloquent

adjective

1 grandiloquent

Lofty in style.

synonyms: magniloquent, tall.

Roget 577: ornament etc. v.; beautified etc. 847; ornate, florid, rich, flowery; euphuistic, euphemistic; sonorous; high-sounding, ... show more

Roget 582: speaking &c.; spoken etc. v.; oral, lingual, phonetic, not written, unwritten, outspoken; eloquent, elocutionary; ... show more

Polish: patetyczny

2 grandiloquent

Puffed up with vanity:
— A grandiloquent and boastful manner.

synonyms: overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous.

Polish: bombastyczny, pompatyczny, szumny, górnolotny, namaszczony


Moby thesaurus: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, aggrandized, amplified, aureate, ballyhooed, bedizened, big-sounding, bloated, bombastic, convoluted, declamatory, disproportionate, elevated, euphuistic, exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant ... show more.

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