Definition for Grandiloquent:

• Pompous in language; bombastic.

Synonyms for Grandiloquent:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • grandiloquent.
  •elevated (adjective)
  • bigtime,
  • elevated,
  • righteous,
  • ethical.
  •eloquent (adjective)
  • more smooth-spoken,
  • suggestive,
  • most smooth spoken,
  • most wellexpressed,
  • more well-expressed,
  • well expressed,
  • more smoothspoken,
  • silver tongued,
  • out-spoken,
  • most revealing,
  • more smooth spoken,
  • smooth spoken,
  • more well expressed,
  • potent,
  • most smooth-spoken,
  • more wellexpressed,
  • more telling,
  • most well-expressed,
  • most telling,
  • wellexpressed,
  • smoothspoken,
  • silvertongued,
  • out spoken,
  • most fervid,
  • most well expressed,
  • most smoothspoken,
  • more revealing,
  • expressive,
  • outspoken.
  •exaggerated (adjective)
  • inflated.
  •florid (adjective)
  • more embellished,
  • most embellished,
  • more euphuistic,
  • florid,
  • more garnished,
  • embellished,
  • figurative,
  • most euphuistic,
  • most ornamented,
  • most garnished,
  • more ornamented.
  •fulsome (adjective)
  • insincere,
  • sycophantic,
  • adulatory,
  • fawning,
  • mealymouthed.
  •having a skillful way with words (adjective)
  • eloquent.
  •high-flown (adjective)
  • high flown,
  • highflown.
  •high-sounding (adjective)
  • more loud-voiced,
  • loud voiced,
  • more full voiced,
  • most reverberating,
  • re-sounding,
  • more loudvoiced,
  • loudvoiced,
  • high sounding,
  • most loud-voiced,
  • most fullvoiced,
  • most full voiced,
  • re sounding,
  • most thundering,
  • more reverberating,
  • highsounding,
  • more fullvoiced,
  • full voiced,
  • more thundering,
  • fullvoiced,
  • most loud voiced,
  • more full-voiced,
  • most full-voiced,
  • most loudvoiced,
  • more loud voiced.
  •ostentatious (adjective)
  • flagrant,
  • dashing,
  • gaudy,
  • ostentatious,
  • forced,
  • vain,
  • flamboyant,
  • shameless,
  • sensational,
  • garish,
  • exhibitionistic,
  • snazzy,
  • flourishing,
  • boastful,
  • grandiose,
  • formal,
  • flashy,
  • ornate,
  • jaunty,
  • Flaunting,
  • splashy,
  • showy,
  • rakish,
  • fussy,
  • opulent,
  • histrionic,
  • dramatic,
  • affected,
  • blatant.
  •overblown (adjective)
  • hyped up.
  •pompous (adjective)
  • self-important,
  • more highfaluting,
  • most highfaluting,
  • pre sumptuous,
  • stuckup,
  • high mighty,
  • Over-bearing,
  • selfimportant,
  • self centered,
  • self-centered,
  • selfcentered,
  • up pity,
  • self important,
  • puffy,
  • over bearing,
  • up-pity.
  •pretentious (adjective)
  • overambitious,
  • too-too.
  •pretentious, flowery (communication) (adjective)
  • purple,
  • big-talking,
  • windy,
  • bombastic,
  • windbag,
  • tall-talking,
  • euphistic.
  •puffed-up (adjective)
  • puffed up,
  • hoity toity,
  • puffedup,
  • hoitytoity.
  •rhetorical (adjective)
  • most hyperbolic,
  • mouthy,
  • more hyperbolic.
  •stilted (adjective)
  • un-natural.
  •verbose (adjective)
  • effusive,
  • tautological,
  • garrulous,
  • Tautologous,
  • profuse,
  • voluble,
  • wordy,
  • talkative,
  • full of air,
  • chatty,
  • yacking,
  • repetitious,
  • repetitive,
  • circumlocutory,
  • loquacious,
  • periphrastic,
  • palaverous.
  •wordy (adjective)
  • featherbedding,
  • lengthy,
  • excessive,
  • rambling,
  • wandering,
  • long-winded,
  • ponderous,
  • endless,
  • superfluous.

• n.

  •
  • clean,
  • articulate,
  • conversational,
  • diffuse,
  • circuitous,
  • discursive,
  • economical,
  • crisp.
  •grandiloquent (noun)
  • pretentious.
  •pompous (noun)
  • study at bombastic.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • aureate,
  • orotund.
  •
  • style,
  • words,
  • swollen,
  • declamatory,
  • sonorous,
  • fustian.
  •
  • elegant.
  •pompous
  • turgid.

Paraphrases for Grandiloquent:

• Independent

  • Adjective
    overblown, fine.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    high-sounding, grand, high-flown, lofty, pompous.

Antonyms for Grandiloquent:

• adj.

  • pretentious, flowery (communication)
    unpretentious.
  • Other antonyms:
    eloquent, plain, plainspoken, simple, unadorned, natural, lean, matter of fact, spare, direct, straightforward, unaffected, stark, bald, prosaic, well-spoken.

Grandiloquent Sentence Examples:

• She wanted to laugh at that wide face - at the grandiloquent flourish with which he removed his hat - and would have had she not recalled the grave respect with which the man beside her had referred to him a moment before.

• Having been enjoined what to say by his commander, this good man and valiant soldier betook himself to the preparation of these grandiloquent articles.