Crossword clues for grandiose
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grandiose \Gran"di*ose"\, a. [F. grandiose, It. grandioso. See Grand.]
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Impressive or elevating in effect; imposing; splendid; striking; -- in a good sense.
The tone of the parts was to be perpetually kept down in order not to impair the grandiose effect of the whole.
--M. Arnold.The grandiose red tulips which grow wild.
--C. Kingsley. Characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor; flaunting; turgid; bombastic; -- in a bad sense; as, a grandiose style.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1828 (earlier as a French word in English), from French grandiose "impressive" (18c.), from Italian grandioso, from Latin grandis "big" (see grand (adj.)). Related: Grandiosely.
Wiktionary
a. 1 large and impressive, in size, scope or extent 2 pompous or pretentious
WordNet
adj. impressive because of unnecessary largeness or grandeur; used to show disapproval
affectedly genteel [syn: hifalutin, highfalutin, highfaluting, hoity-toity, la-di-da]
Usage examples of "grandiose".
All the beach towns, plus Torrance, Hawthorne, and greater Walteria, were in on some grandiose pilot project bankrolled with inexhaustible taxpayer millions, appropriate chunks of which were finding their way to antidrug entities up and down every level of governance.
The turning led nowhere else but up to the Jcssop residence - a grandiose Gothic house whose dark spires we could already discern through the chokeberries and manzanita.
The Democratic National Committeewoman, a woman of grandiose temper and considerable clout, raised racehorses.
Furies battle, that was a condition of serving at the post, but the Furies tale sounded like one of those grandiose stories skiers told when they got off the hill, trying to make a normal run seem like something special.
Before the Leaps, Al had always believed the money would be found and the problems would be solved and the whole grandiose scheme would work.
Kohut is the post-Freudian, object-relations psychoanalytical theorist who has most fully explored the notion of the grandiose.
Quaaludes and red wine and then the odd Preludin to pull out of the grandiose nosedive of the Quaaludes and red wine.
The signal had formed an artery of data, fed back to Earth according to the original plan of a technocratic elite responsible for the grandiose schemes of interstellar exploration.
Pericles and his cabal of artists and builders are constructing a temple to Athena on the Acropolis, a grandiose replacement for the shabby temple that the Persian army burned to the ground thirty-four years ago, a fact that Herodotus tends not to dwell on.
Instead, all of the evidence that we have indicates that he would feel emboldened by them to pursue his more grandiose objectives.
Grandiose inscriptions were displayed all about to commemorate my benefactions, but my refusal to exempt the inhabitants from a tax which they were quite able to pay soon alienated that rabble from me.
He had been very much a part of that most grandiose plan of all, drawing the architectural blueprints and building her enormous store in Knightsbridge.
Melaleucas originally were imported in a grandiose scheme to suck the Everglades dry.
What bizarre notions would run through his mind as he confronted his own mortality without having achieved any of his grandiose visions?
Victoria had such grandiose ideas sometimes, and yet Olivia knew she really meant them.