[syn: grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Grandiloquent \Gran*dil"o*quent\, a. [L. grandis grand + logui
to speak.]
Speaking in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
grandiloquent
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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
92 Moby Thesaurus words for "grandiloquent":
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