grandiloquent

1. 1.

   lofty in style

   “he engages in so much tall talk, one never really realizes what he is saying”

   Synonymsmagniloquenttall

   Similarrhetorical
2. 2.

   puffed up with vanity

   “a grandiloquent and boastful manner”

   “overblown oratory”

   “a pompous speech”

   “pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey”

   Synonymsoverblownpompouspontificalportentous

   Similarpretentious

Questions about grandiloquent

What does grandiloquent mean?

grandiloquent means "lofty in style". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in grandiloquent?

grandiloquent has 4 syllables: gran-dil-oq-uent. The stress falls on "dil". In IPA it is /ɡɹænˈdɪləkwənt/.

What is another word for grandiloquent?

Close synonyms include magniloquent, tall, overblown, pompous, pontifical. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is grandiloquent a common word?

grandiloquent is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.