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grandiloquent
Synonyms and Antonyms of grandiloquent
- poets in the 19th century tended to write poetry filled with grandiloquent phrases
aureate, florid, flowery, high-flown, high-sounding, highfalutin (also hifalutin), magnific, ornate, purple, rhetorical (also rhetoric)
- at Independence Day celebrations grandiloquent speeches by local politicians are as traditional as fireworks
bombastic, flatulent, fustian, gaseous, gassy, oratorical, orotund, rhetorical (also rhetoric), windy
bloated, elevated, florid, flowery, grandiose, highfalutin (also hifalutin), high-flown, high-sounding, inflated, lofty, ornate, pompous, pontifical, pretentious, stilted, tumid, turgid
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