grandiloquent
[gran-dil-uh-kwuh nt]
- speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
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Origin of grandiloquent
Synonyms
See more synonyms for grandiloquent on Thesaurus.comturgid, inflated, rhetorical, pretentious.
Antonyms
simple, sincere.
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Examples from the Web for grandiloquent
Contemporary Examples
Yet a moment like this seems so overblown, so grandiloquent, and so self-consciously heroic that it simply stuns me.
And then there was the grandiloquent Republican leader Everett Dirksen.
A celebrity whose egocentric and grandiloquent pronouncements reveal a potentially dangerous person in serious need of help?
Note as well their wily use of the word "stuff"—a bit of vernacular so the message doesn't get too grandiloquent.
Historical Examples
Why I have known the weather in this grandiloquent condition for a whole day.
Homeward BoundJames Fenimore Cooper
"That was quite true, dad," he remarked with a grandiloquent air.
The New TenantE. Phillips Oppenheim
This grandiloquent decree destroyed the effect of the armament.
The Political History of England - Vol. X.William Hunt
The tone with which he addressed me was deliberate and grandiloquent.
Tenting on the PlainsElizabeth B. Custer
These grandiloquent harangues of mercy and advice disgust me.
In the Name of LibertyOwen Johnson
grandiloquent
- inflated, pompous, or bombastic in style or expression
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Word Origin
C16: from Latin grandiloquus, from grandis great + loquī to speak
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Word Origin and History for grandiloquent
adj.
1590s, probably a back-formation from grandiloquence. Related: Grandiloquently.
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