grandiose as an adjective: - 1
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grandiose
adjective
1 grandiose
Impressive because of unnecessary largeness or grandeur; used to show disapproval.
Roget 577:
ornament
etc.
v.;
beautified
etc.
847;
ornate,
florid,
rich,
flowery;
euphuistic†,
euphemistic;
sonorous;
high-sounding,
big-sounding;
inflated,
swelling,
tumid;
turgid,
turgescent;
pedantic,
pompous,
stilted;
orotund;
high flown,
high flowing;
sententious,
rhetorical,
declamatory;
grandiose;
grandiloquent,
magniloquent,
altiloquent†;
sesquipedal†,
sesquipedalian;
Johnsonian,
mouthy;
bombastic;
fustian;
frothy,
flashy,
flaming.
antithetical,
alliterative;
figurative
etc.
521;
artificial
etc.
(inelegant)
579.
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2 grandiose
Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.
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