grandiloquent English

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What does grandiloquent mean?

grandiloquent

— adjective (= tall) lofty in style he engages in so much tall talk, one never really realizes what he is saying

— adjective (= overblown, pompous, pontifical) puffed up with vanity a grandiloquent and boastful manner overblown oratory a pompous speech pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey — Newsweek

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grandiloquent English » English

pompous

magniloquent

tall

bombastic

pontifical

overblown

turgid

sententious

portentous

highfalutin

high-flown

boastful

uppity

tumid

swelling

sounding

purple

pretentious

ostentatious

orotund

large

hoity-toity

highfaluting

highbrow

high-sounding

hifalutin

haughty

grandiose

flamboyant

expansive

bullying

bombast

blue-sky

big

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