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English adjective: grandiloquent | |||
| 1. | grandiloquent lofty in style | ||
| Samples | He engages in so much tall talk, one never really realizes what he is saying. | ||
| Synonyms | magniloquent, tall | ||
| Similar | rhetorical | ||
| Antonyms | unrhetorical | ||
| 2. | grandiloquent puffed up with vanity | ||
| Samples | A grandiloquent and boastful manner. Overblown oratory. A pompous speech. Pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey. | ||
| Synonyms | overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous | ||
| Similar | pretentious | ||
| Antonyms | unpretentious | ||
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