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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

unrhetorical

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