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