ADJECTIVE | all | grandiloquent, magniloquent, tall | lofty in style |
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all | grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous | puffed up with vanity |
Sounds | graendih'lahkwahnt | |
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Rhymes | abandonment ... wonderment: 671 rhymes with ahnt... |
Meaning | lofty in style. | |
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Synonyms | magniloquent, tall | |
Broader | rhetorical | Given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought |
Spanish | grandilocuente, grandílocuo | |
Nouns | grandiloquence | high-flown style |
Adverbs | grandiloquently | in a rhetorically grandiloquent manner |
Meaning | Puffed up with vanity. | |
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Example | "a grandiloquent and boastful manner" | |
Synonyms | overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous | |
Broader | pretentious | making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction |
Spanish | altisonante, ampuloso, campanudo, grandilocuente, grandílocuo, hinchado, pomposo | |
Catalan | altiloqüent, altisonant, ampul·lós, campanut, grandil·loqüent, inflat, pompós |
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