magniloquent
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Adjective (1)
- lofty in style“he engages in so much tall talk, one never really realizes what he is saying”Synonyms: grandiloquenttallOpposite unrhetoricalSimilar rhetorical
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Mag·nil′o·quent adjective
Origin: L. magnus great + loquens, -entis, p. pr. of loqui to speak. See Magnitude, Loquacious.
Speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic; tumid in style; grandiloquent. — Mag·nil′wb-a1′>′o·quent·ly, adverb
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54