grandiloquent
10 11 2009Adjectives
1. (adj.) grandiloquent, magniloquent, tall;
- lofty in style;
- “he engages in so much tall talk, one never really realizes what he is saying”;
2. (adj.) grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous;
- puffed up with vanity;
- “a grandiloquent and boastful manner”; “overblown oratory”; “a pompous speech”; “pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey”;