(adj) puffed up with vanity; ; ; ; - Newsweek, Syn.pontifical, overblown, portentous, pompous, Example: a grandiloquent and boastful manner; overblown oratory; a pompous speech; pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey
(n) high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation, Syn.rhetoric, magniloquence, grandiloquence, ornateness, Example: the grandiosity of his prose; an excessive ornateness of language
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53
a. [ F. grandiose, It. grandioso. See Grand. ] 1. Impressive or elevating in effect; imposing; splendid; striking; -- in a good sense. [ 1913 Webster ]
The tone of the parts was to be perpetually kept down in order not to impair the grandiose effect of the whole. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]
The grandiose red tulips which grow wild. C. Kingsley. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. Characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor; flaunting; turgid; bombastic; -- in a bad sense; as, a grandiose style. [ 1913 Webster ]
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