'Grandiloquent' definitions:
Definition of 'grandiloquent'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Lofty in style; "he engages in so much tall talk, one never really realizes what he is saying" [syn: grandiloquent, magniloquent, tall]
adjective
Puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek [syn: grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous]
Definition of 'Grandiloquent'
From: GCIDE
- Grandiloquent \Gran*dil"o*quent\, a. [L. grandis grand + logui to speak.] Speaking in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'grandiloquent'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Gongoresque,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- hyperbolic,
- inflated,
- inkhorn,
- inordinate,
- Johnsonian,
- 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