About The Word Grandiose
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Grandiose
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What's The Definition Of Grandiose?
[adj] impressive because of unnecessary largeness or grandeur; used to show disapproval
[adj] affectedly genteel Synonyms | Synonyms for Grandiose: hifalutin | highfalutin | highfaluting | hoity-toity | impressive | la-di-da | pretentious Related Terms | Find terms related to Grandiose: affected | ambitious | august | awe-inspiring | awful | Babylonian | barbaric | bedizened | big-sounding | bombastic | convoluted | Corinthian | cosmic | declamatory | deluxe | elaborate | elegant | elevated | euphuistic | extravagant | fancy | fine | flamboyant | flaming | flash | flashy | flaunting | florid | fulsome | fustian | garish | gaudy | glorious | Gongoresque | grand | grandiloquent | grandisonant | highfalutin | high-flowing | high-flown | high-flying | high-sounding | histrionic | imposing | impressive | inflated | inkhorn | Johnsonian | labyrinthine | lexiphanic | lofty | lordly | lurid | luxurious | magnificent | magniloquent | majestic | melodramatic | meretricious | monumental | noble | orotund | ostentatious | overambitious | overdone | overelaborate | overinvolved | overwhelming | overwrought | palatial | pedantic | plush | pompous | posh | pretentious | princely | proud | rhetorical | ritzy | royal | sensational | sensationalistic | sententious | showy | sonorous | splendacious | splendid | splendiferous | stately | stilted | sumptuous | superb | superfancy | superfine | swank | swanky | swell | tall | tortuous | unfathomable | utopian | vast | visionary See Also | Grandiose In Webster's Dictionary \Gran"di*ose"\, a. [F. grandiose, It. grandioso. See
{Grand}.]
1. Impressive or elevating in effect; imposing; splendid;
striking; -- in a good sense.
The tone of the parts was to be perpetually kept
down in order not to impair the grandiose effect of
the whole. --M. Arnold.
The grandiose red tulips which grow wild. --C.
Kingsley.
2. Characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor;
flaunting; turgid; bombastic; -- in a bad sense; as, a
grandiose style.
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