Definitions for: Grandiloquent


[adj] puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
[adj] lofty in style; "he engages in so much tall talk, one never really realizes what he is saying"



Webster (1913) Definition: Gran*dil"o*quent, a. [L. grandis grand + logui
to speak.]
Speaking in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic.

Synonyms: magniloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous, pretentious, rhetorical, tall

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