Definitions for grandiloquent

grandiloquent gran·dil·o·quent

Spelling: [gran-dil-uh-kwuh nt]
IPA: /grænˈdɪl ə kwənt/

Grandiloquent is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 29 points.

You can make 2243 anagrams from letters in grandiloquent (adegilnnoqrtu).

Definitions for grandiloquent

adjective

  1. speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.

Origin of grandiloquent

First recorded in 1585-95; grandiloqu(ence) + -ent

Examples for grandiloquent

The tone with which he addressed me was deliberate and grandiloquent.

And then there was the grandiloquent Republican leader Everett Dirksen.

A celebrity whose egocentric and grandiloquent pronouncements reveal a potentially dangerous person in serious need of help?

They all have about a dozen names in the grandiloquent style of the Spaniards.

"That was quite true, dad," he remarked with a grandiloquent air.

Why I have known the weather in this grandiloquent condition for a whole day.

Note as well their wily use of the word "stuff"—a bit of vernacular so the message doesn't get too grandiloquent.

These grandiloquent harangues of mercy and advice disgust me.

This grandiloquent decree destroyed the effect of the armament.

Yet a moment like this seems so overblown, so grandiloquent, and so self-consciously heroic that it simply stuns me.

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