grandiloquent
adjective
[ ɡranˈdɪləkwənt ]
• pompous or extravagant in language, style, or manner, especially in a way that is intended to impress.
• "a grandiloquent celebration of Spanish glory"
Similar:
pompous,
bombastic,
magniloquent,
pretentious,
ostentatious,
high-flown,
high-sounding,
rhetorical,
orotund,
fustian,
florid,
flowery,
laboured,
strained,
overwrought,
overblown,
overripe,
overdone,
wordy,
periphrastic,
epic,
Homeric,
Miltonian,
highfalutin,
purple,
tumid,
pleonastic,
euphuistic,
aureate,
hyperventilated,
Origin:
late 16th century: from Latin grandiloquus, literally ‘grand-speaking’, from grandis ‘grand’ + loqui ‘speak’. The ending was altered in English by association with eloquent.
