Definisjon av grandiloquent

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Adjective

grandiloquent - puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous
pretentious making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction; "a pretentious country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious scholarly edition"
grandiloquent - lofty in style; "he engages in so much tall talk, one never really realizes what he is saying"
magniloquent, tall
rhetorical given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought; "mere rhetorical frippery"
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Adjektiv

grandiloquent - Given to using language in a showy way by using an excessive amount of difficult words to impress others; bombastic; turgid.

Adjektiv - Gradbøying

  • Positiv: grandiloquent
  • Komparativ: more grandiloquent
  • Superlativ: most grandiloquent

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