Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Characterized by greatness of scope or intent; grand.
- adjective Characterized by excessive self-importance or affected grandeur; pompous.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Impressive from inherent grandeur; grand in effect; magnificent; imposing.
- Characterized by self-display or bombast; vulgarly showy or flaunting; grandiloquent; swollen; turgid: as, a grandiose style.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Impressive or elevating in effect; imposing; splendid; striking; -- in a good sense.
- adjective Characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor; flaunting; turgid; bombastic; -- in a bad sense.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
large andimpressive , insize ,scope orextent - adjective
pompous orpretentious
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective affectedly genteel
- adjective impressive because of unnecessary largeness or grandeur; used to show disapproval
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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But Wednesday's speech - which Gingrich himself called "grandiose" - could actually resonate politically in Florida, where space exploration is good politics 14 miles away from Cape Canaveral.
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Desert landscapes with unspeakable monsters hiding in grandiose mysterious structures, a dread and a trembling for an amateur adventurer and a professional curiosity for Sean Connery-like types.
H. P. Lovecraft "At the Mountains of Madness" and other masterpieces of terror 2009
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ARLINGTON, Texas The NBA opened its doors Sunday in grandiose Cowboys Stadium, and, in typical Texas style, put its greatest stars on the biggest stage ever to witness a basketball game. —
Record 100,000-plus crowd takes in All-Star Game in Dallas 2010
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The main grandiose building covered with ceramic scenes glorifying Soviet achievements is closed.
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The NBA opened its doors Sunday in grandiose Cowboys Stadium, and, in typical Texas style, put its greatest stars on the biggest stage ever to witness a basketball game.
Record 100,000-plus crowd takes in All-Star Game in Dallas 2010
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The main grandiose building covered with ceramic scenes glorifying Soviet achievements is closed.
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The main grandiose building covered with ceramic scenes glorifying Soviet achievements is closed.
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The main grandiose building covered with ceramic scenes glorifying Soviet achievements is closed.
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The main grandiose building covered with ceramic scenes glorifying Soviet achievements is closed.
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In the presidential primaries, he showed little interest in grandiose promises.
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sera commented on the word grandiose
to be grandiose is to display an exaggerated manner
August 13, 2007
writer723 commented on the word grandiose
grandiose & grandiosity: characterized by greatness of scope or intent. Impressive or elevating in effect; imposing; splendid; striking; -- in a good sense. at times i suffer from grandiosity. inflated sense of self. it does not mean what i am feeling and the expressions of myrself are not real or true or on the negative side of grandiose.
May 5, 2012