Definitions for grandiose

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grandiose gran·di·ose

Spelling: [gran-dee-ohs]

IPA: /ˈgræn diˌoʊs/

Grandiose is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 950 anagrams from letters in grandiose (adeginors).

Definitions for grandiose

adjective

1. affectedly grand or important; pompous:
2. more complicated or elaborate than necessary; overblown:
3. grand in an imposing or impressive way.
4. Psychiatry. having an exaggerated belief in one's importance, sometimes reaching delusional proportions, and occurring as a common symptom of mental illnesses, as manic disorder.

Origin of grandiose

1830-40; French Italian grandioso Latin grandi(s) grand + -ōsus -ose¹

Examples for grandiose

It was a supreme opportunity for being able to display his grandiose achievements.

Months after his arrest, he was online acting out a grandiose identity.

Tomas Castro dropped his ragged cloak with a grandiose gesture.

It did not feature outsized personalities or grandiose schemes.

But the speech was sufficiently emphatic, and its words were grandiose and even florid.

Songs about grandiose generalities are well and good; that's what a lot of pop music consists of.

After the march, the political convoy of picket-signs makes its way to a grandiose fast-food joint for pizza and beer.

His grandfather a painter of the grandiose or Michael Angelo school.

I suspect he chose the Dred Scott comparison precisely because of its overblown, grandiose nature.

Berlioz was above all the composer of the grandiose, the magnificent.