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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: lofty in style; "he engages in so much tall talk, one never really realizes what he is saying" [syn: grandiloquent, 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: grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous]

Merriam Webster's

adjective see grandiloquence

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 pompous or inflated in language. 2 given to boastful talk. Derivatives: grandiloquence n. grandiloquently adv. Etymology: L grandiloquus (as GRAND, -loquus -speaking f. loqui speak), after eloquent etc.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Grandiloquent language or behaviour is very formal, literary, or exaggerated, and is used by people when they want to seem important. (FORMAL) ADJ [disapproval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Bombastic, turgid, tumid, swelling, inflated, stilted, pompous, declamatory, rhetorical, high-sounding, high-flown, altiloquent.

Moby Thesaurus

Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, aggrandized, amplified, aureate, ballyhooed, bedizened, big-sounding, bloated, bombastic, convoluted, declamatory, disproportionate, elevated, euphuistic, exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flatulent, flaunting, flowery, formal, fulsome, garish, gassy, gaudy, grandiose, grandisonant, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, highfalutin, hyperbolic, inflated, inkhorn, inordinate, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty, lurid, magnified, magniloquent, meretricious, orotund, ostentatious, overblown, overdone, overdrawn, overelaborate, overemphasized, overemphatic, overestimated, overgreat, overinvolved, overlarge, overpraised, oversold, overstated, overstressed, overwrought, pedantic, pompous, pontifical, pretentious, prodigal, profuse, puffed, rhetorical, self-important, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, showy, solemn, sonorous, stilted, stretched, stuffy, superlative, swollen, tall, tortuous, touted, tumid, turgid