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grandiloquent 音標拼音: [grænd'ɪləkwənt] a. 夸張的,夸大的,浮夸的 誇張的,誇大的,浮誇的 grandiloquent adj 1: lofty in style; " he engages in so much tall talk, one never really realizes what he is saying" [ synonym: { grandiloquent}, { magniloquent}, { tall}] 2: puffed up with vanity; " a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; " overblown oratory"; " a pompous speech"; " pseudo- scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek [ synonym: { grandiloquent}, { overblown}, { pompous}, { pontifical}, { portentous}] Grandiloquent \ Gran* dil" o* quent\, a. [ L. grandis grand logui to speak.] Speaking in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic. [ 1913 Webster] 92 Moby Thesaurus words for " grandiloquent": Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, aggrandized, amplified, aureate, ballyhooed, bedizened, big- sounding, bloated, bombastic, convoluted, declamatory, disproportionate, elevated, euphuistic, exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flatulent, flaunting, flowery, formal, fulsome, garish, gassy, gaudy, grandiose, grandisonant, high- flowing, high- flown, high- flying, high- sounding, highfalutin, hyperbolic, inflated, inkhorn, inordinate, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty, lurid, magnified, magniloquent, meretricious, orotund, ostentatious, overblown, overdone, overdrawn, overelaborate, overemphasized, overemphatic, overestimated, overgreat, overinvolved, overlarge, overpraised, oversold, overstated, overstressed, overwrought, pedantic, pompous, pontifical, pretentious, prodigal, profuse, puffed, rhetorical, self- important, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, showy, solemn, sonorous, stilted, stretched, stuffy, superlative, swollen, tall, tortuous, touted, tumid, turgid
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