Usually means: Exaggerated sense of importance, scale.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. grandiose: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. grandiose: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. grandiose: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. grandiose: Collins English Dictionary
  5. grandiose: Vocabulary.com
  6. Grandiose, grandiose: Wordnik
  7. grandiose: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. grandiose: Wiktionary
  9. grandiose: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. grandiose: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. grandiose: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. grandiose: Dictionary.com
  13. grandiose: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. grandiose: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Grandiose, The Grandiose: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Grandiose: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. grandiose: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. grandiose: Rhymezone
  19. Grandiose: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. grandiose: Free Dictionary
  21. grandiose: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. grandiose: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. grandiose: Legal dictionary

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. grandiose: Medical dictionary

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  1. Grandiose: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See grandiosely as well.)

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adjective:  Large and impressive, in size, scope or extent.
adjective:  Pompous or pretentious.

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