| 单词 | grandiloquent |
| 释义 | grandiloquent (once / 9213 pages) adj Grandiloquent is a fancy term for, well, being fancy or pretentious. In fact, you might say grandiloquent is itself a pretty grandiloquent word. The word grandiloquent generally refers to the way a person behaves or speaks. Politicians and schoolteachers are the usual suspects of this manner of behavior, known as grandiloquence, but it can refer to anything that's overbearing or pompous in style or manner. Architecture, especially, is highly guilty of being grandiloquent — if you check out just about anything built in the Baroque style, you could describe it as grandiloquent. WORD FAMILYgrandiloquent: grandiloquence, grandiloquently+/grandiloquence: grandiloquences USAGE EXAMPLESIn Sunday’s presidential debate in St Louis, Missouri, he made the grandiloquent pronouncement that “coal will last for a thousand years in this country”. The Guardian(Oct 11, 2016) This grandiloquent psychiatrist-poet, a bear of a man with waves of white hair, has played the role of national martyr throughout the proceedings. The Guardian(Mar 22, 2016) Trump was grandiloquent about himself, his temperament and his ability to serve. US News(Feb 07, 2016) 1adj lofty in style Syn magniloquent, tall rhetorical given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought 2adj puffed up with vanity a grandiloquent and boastful manner Syn overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous pretentious making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction |
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