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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
grandiloquent
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a grandiloquent prose style
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ His tightly honed but grandiloquent rhetoric rang like gold on marble, even when it was covering gross political ineptitude.
▪ Jay was given to grandiloquent rambling, and had to check herself.
▪ The tempi of their dances were usually slow and grandiloquent, the gestures generous yet precise and performed with conviction.
▪ The truth is that Ministers who mouth those grandiloquent guarantees know little of what is happening on the ground.
▪ Their judicial proclamations range from grandiloquent declarations of sovereign citizenship to lowly refusals to pay speeding tickets.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grandiloquent

Grandiloquent \Gran*dil"o*quent\, a. [L. grandis grand + logui to speak.] Speaking in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
grandiloquent

1590s, probably a back-formation from grandiloquence. Related: Grandiloquently.

Wiktionary
grandiloquent

a. (context of a person, their language or writing English) given to using language in a showy way by using an excessive amount of difficult words to impress others; bombastic; turgid

WordNet
grandiloquent

  1. adj. lofty in style; "he engages in so much tall talk, one never really realizes what he is saying" [syn: magniloquent, tall]

  2. puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek [syn: overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous]

Usage examples of "grandiloquent".

Gallicisms and technical terminology are no longer proclaimed to the peasants, while the artisan is no more entertained with grandiloquent descriptions of the last night of Socrates, or with Ciceronian laudations of the Schoolmen.

His paintings are impressive, decoratively splendid, but they often smack of the stage, and are more frequently grandiloquent than grand.

From Qum, the Ayatolla Daryaei, the religious leader of Iran and long an enemy of everything Americans did, railed against all unbelievers, consigning each and every one to his personal version of hell, but translation made understanding difficult for American viewers, and his grandiloquent ranting was cut short.

Sapsea, in a grandiloquent state of absence of mind, seems to refill his visitor's glass, which is full already.