Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Pompous or bombastic speech or expression.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The condition or quality of being grandiloquent; lofty speech or expression; bombast.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The use of lofty words or phrases; bombast; -- usually in a bad sense.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
lofty ,pompous orbombastic speech orwriting
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"Thus, to dismiss writer-director Darren Aronofsky's hyper-ambitious third feature The Fountain - a heady fusion of science fiction, metaphysics and a melodramatic quest for immortality both romantic and spiritual - for simply believing in its own sentimental grandiloquence is to deny one of the most exquisite and strangely moving trips to the multiplex this year."
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It's the economy, stupid, which reflects the government close association with the "grandiloquence" of Britain's economic performance in the past few years.
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However, Evie's mother sounds a little too much like her daughter, and this lack of distinctiveness can be levelled at most of the voices: they share a slightly fusty grandiloquence at times redolent of a 19th-century novel.
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The article is thus meaningless grandiloquence when it comes to the courts.
Iris Erlingsdottir: "Free Speech" Not So Free Iris Erlingsdottir 2011
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Her books capture the peculiar grandiloquence of children's speech; the ornate sentences, stippled with adverbs like raisins in a cake.
A life in books: Lauren Child Sarah Crown 2010
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Or consider the scene in which the author and his wife fall for that lovely house with the big mortgage: "We picked up one corner of the rug and gasped with pleasure at the grandiloquence of the hardwood floors."
A Little Learning Eric Felten 2011
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The source of Mr. Fortuna's power in the film resides in his lithe gait and the sly air of grandiloquence with which Cesar hunts down his man.
Out of Africa and Back Again Steve Dollar 2011
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The article is thus meaningless grandiloquence when it comes to the courts.
Iris Erlingsdottir: "Free Speech" Not So Free Iris Erlingsdottir 2011
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The source of Mr. Fortuna's power in the film resides in his lithe gait and the sly air of grandiloquence with which Cesar hunts down his man.
Out of Africa and Back Again Steve Dollar 2011
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Enter Kekhman, then 39, a multi-millionaire fruit importer who described himself , with Freudian grandiloquence, as "the Emperor of the Banana".
Who's pulling the strings in Russia's ballet revolution? 2012
kenspeckle commented on the word grandiloquence
not to be confused with graviloquence or gaudiloquent
February 7, 2007
oroboros commented on the word grandiloquence
Don't forget grandilloquence! Also see blandiloquence.
May 2, 2007