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grandiloquent

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of grandiloquent

1 full of fine words and fancy expressions

poets in the 19th century tended to write poetry filled with grandiloquent phrases

Synonyms of grandiloquent

aureate, florid, flowery, high-flown, high-sounding, highfalutin (also hifalutin), magnific, ornate, purple, rhetorical (also rhetoric)

Words Related to grandiloquent

affected, bloated, fancy-pants, grandiose, inflated, pompous, pretentious, stilted

excessive, flattering, fulsome

boastful, bombastic

elevated, eloquent, lofty

bookish, inkhorn, learned

Near Antonyms of grandiloquent

prosaic, unpoetic

bald, direct, lean, matter-of-fact, plain, plainspoken, simple, spare, stark, straightforward, unadorned

natural, unaffected, unpretentious

2 marked by the use of impressive-sounding but mostly meaningless words and phrases

at Independence Day celebrations grandiloquent speeches by local politicians are as traditional as fireworks

Synonyms of grandiloquent

bombastic, flatulent, fustian, gaseous, gassy, oratorical, orotund, rhetorical (also rhetoric), windy

Words Related to grandiloquent

bloated, elevated, florid, flowery, grandiose, highfalutin (also hifalutin), high-flown, high-sounding, inflated, lofty, ornate, pompous, pontifical, pretentious, stilted, tumid, turgid

overdone, verbose, wordy

Near Antonyms of grandiloquent

eloquent, well-spoken

bald, direct, matter-of-fact, plain, plainspoken, simple, stark, straightforward, unadorned, unaffected, unpretentious

Antonyms of grandiloquent

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