| slovo | definícia |
grandiloquent
(encz) | grandiloquent,velkohubý Jaroslav Šedivý |
Grandiloquent
(gcide) | Grandiloquent \Gran*dil"o*quent\, a. [L. grandis grand + logui
to speak.]
Speaking in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic.
[1913 Webster] |
grandiloquent
(wn) | grandiloquent
adj 1: lofty in style; "he engages in so much tall talk, one
never really realizes what he is saying" [syn:
grandiloquent, magniloquent, tall]
2: puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner";
"overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific
gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek [syn:
grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical,
portentous] |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
grandiloquent
(encz) | grandiloquent,velkohubý Jaroslav Šedivý |
grandiloquently
(encz) | grandiloquently, adv: |
grandiloquent
(wn) | grandiloquent
adj 1: lofty in style; "he engages in so much tall talk, one
never really realizes what he is saying" [syn:
grandiloquent, magniloquent, tall]
2: puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner";
"overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific
gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek [syn:
grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical,
portentous] |
grandiloquently
(wn) | grandiloquently
adv 1: in a rhetorically grandiloquent manner; "the orator spoke
magniloquently" [syn: grandiloquently,
magniloquently] |
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