GRANDILOQUENT meaning: Pompous or extravagant in style

We found 25 dictionaries that define the word grandiloquent:

General (22 matching dictionaries)

grandiloquent: Merriam-Webster
grandiloquent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
grandiloquent: Collins English Dictionary
grandiloquent: Vocabulary.com
grandiloquent: Wordnik
grandiloquent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
grandiloquent: Wiktionary
grandiloquent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
grandiloquent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
grandiloquent: Infoplease Dictionary
Grandiloquent, grandiloquent: Dictionary.com
Grandiloquent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
grandiloquent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
grandiloquent: Rhymezone
Grandiloquent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
grandiloquent: FreeDictionary.org
grandiloquent: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
grandiloquent: Mnemonic Dictionary
grandiloquent: TheFreeDictionary.com
grandiloquent: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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grandiloquent: Legal dictionary

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grandiloquent: Encyclopedia

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grandiloquent: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ adjective: (of a person, their language or writing) Given to using language in a showy way by using an excessive number of difficult words to impress others; bombastic; turgid.

Opposite:

simple, plain, modest, unpretentious

Types:

bombastic, oratorical, pretentious, pompous, ostentatious, more...

Colors:

royal blue, burgundy, gold, crimson, sapphire, more...

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