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grandiloquent

[ gran-dil-uh-kwuhnt ]

adjective

  1. speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.

    Synonyms: pretentious, rhetorical, inflated, turgid

    Antonyms: sincere, simple



grandiloquent

/ ɡrænˈdɪləkwənt /

adjective

  1. inflated, pompous, or bombastic in style or expression
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • granˈdiloquently, adverb
  • granˈdiloquence, noun
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Other Words From

  • gran·dilo·quent·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of grandiloquent1

First recorded in 1585–95; grandiloqu(ence) + -ent
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Word History and Origins

Origin of grandiloquent1

C16: from Latin grandiloquus, from grandis great + loquī to speak
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Example Sentences

A member of his own party mocked his “grandiloquent swell” and “turkey-gobbler strut.”

In 2014, this might sound grandiloquent and overstated, but in 1994 there were few openly gay men on TV, and few people with AIDS.

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.

I was unanimously recalled, and—to be grandiloquent—received with applause that made the welkin ring.

Just off the main square we secured quarters in a typical French inn of the second class, a small place with a grandiloquent name.

This relative of his, with his plausible and grandiloquent schemes, stood revealed a bankrupt swindler of the worst type.

If called on to prove his power, this grandiloquent Satan would turn out, I fear, to be a sorry thaumaturgist.

Friedrich has still his hopes of Bavaria, so grandiloquent are the French in regard to it; who but would hope?

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