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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
grandiloquent \grandil"oquent\, a. l. grandis grand + logui
   to speak.
   speaking in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic.
   1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
grandiloquent
     adj 1: lofty in style; "he engages in so much tall talk, one never
            really realizes what he is saying" syn: magniloquent,
             tall
     2: puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful
        manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech";
        "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"-
        newsweek syn: overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous
see also:
magniloquent tall overblown pompous pontifical portentous 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
92 moby thesaurus words for "grandiloquent":
   gongoresque, johnsonian, affected, aggrandized, amplified, aureate,
   ballyhooed, bedizened, big-sounding, bloated, bombastic,
   convoluted, declamatory, disproportionate, elevated, euphuistic,
   exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme,
   flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flatulent, flaunting, flowery, formal,
   fulsome, garish, gassy, gaudy, grandiose, grandisonant,
   high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, highfalutin,
   hyperbolic, inflated, inkhorn, inordinate, labyrinthine,
   lexiphanic, lofty, lurid, magnified, magniloquent, meretricious,
   orotund, ostentatious, overblown, overdone, overdrawn,
   overelaborate, overemphasized, overemphatic, overestimated,
   overgreat, overinvolved, overlarge, overpraised, oversold,
   overstated, overstressed, overwrought, pedantic, pompous,
   pontifical, pretentious, prodigal, profuse, puffed, rhetorical,
   self-important, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, showy,
   solemn, sonorous, stilted, stretched, stuffy, superlative, swollen,
   tall, tortuous, touted, tumid, turgid





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