grandiloquent
11grandiloquent — adjective grandiloquent speeches Syn: pompous, bombastic, magniloquent, pretentious, ostentatious, high flown, orotund, florid, flowery; overwrought, overblown, overdone; informal highfalutin, purple Ant: understated …
12GRANDILOQUENT, ENTE — adj. Qui s’exprime avec grandiloquence. Orateur grandiloquent. Il signifie aussi Où il y a de la grandiloquence. Discours grandiloquent …
13grandiloquent — adjective see grandiloquence …
14grandiloquent — grandiloquently, adv. /gran dil euh kweuhnt/, adj. speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic. [1585 95; GRANDILOQU(ENCE) + ENT] Syn. turgid, inflated, rhetorical, pretentious. Ant. simple, sincere. * …
15grandiloquent — adjective /ɡɹænˈdɪl.ə.kwənt/ overly wordy, pompous, flowery, or elaborate. Syn: bombastic, extravagant, flowery, ostentatious, pretentious …
16grandiloquent — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, aggrandized, amplified, aureate, ballyhooed, bedizened, big sounding, bloated, bombastic, convoluted, declamatory, disproportionate, elevated, euphuistic, exaggerated, excessive,… …
17grandiloqüent — gran|di|lo|qüent Mot Agut Adjectiu invariable …
18grandiloquent — gran|dil|o|quent [grænˈdıləkwənt] adj formal [Date: 1500 1600; : Latin; Origin: grandiloquus, from grandis ( GRAND1) + loqui to speak ] using words that are too long and formal in order to sound important = ↑pompous >grandiloquence n [U] …
19grandiloquent — gran|dil|o|quent [ græn dıləkwənt ] adjective FORMAL expressed in extremely formal language in order to impress people, and often sounding silly because of this ╾ gran|dil|o|quence noun uncount …
20grandiloquent — bombastic Styles of Speech …
