Grandiose

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  • adjective. Characterized by greatness of scope or intent; grand.
  • adjective. Characterized by excessive self-importance or affected grandeur; pompous.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Impressive from inherent grandeur; grand in effect; magnificent; imposing.
  • Characterized by self-display or bombast; vulgarly showy or flaunting; grandiloquent; swollen; turgid: as, a grandiose style.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Impressive or elevating in effect; imposing; splendid; striking; -- in a good sense.
  • adjective. Characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor; flaunting; turgid; bombastic; -- in a bad sense.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. large and impressive, in size, scope or extent
  • adjective. pompous or pretentious
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. affectedly genteel
  • adjective. impressive because of unnecessary largeness or grandeur; used to show disapproval
    • Word Usage
    "But Wednesday's speech - which Gingrich himself called "grandiose" - could actually resonate politically in Florida, where space exploration is good politics 14 miles away from Cape Canaveral."
    Equivalent
    impressive  pretentious  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Gross  Grosz  adios  arkose  bowse  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    architectural  bombastic  chimerical  extravagant  fanciful  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Babylonian  Corinthian  Gongoresque  Johnsonian  affected  
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