grandiloquent

/gran-dil-uh-kwuhnt/US // grænˈdɪl ə kwənt //UK // (ɡrænˈdɪləkwənt) //

大言不惭,大言不惭的,大言不惭的人,大言不惭地

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.

adj.pretentious, flowery (communication)

Synonyms

In 2014, this might sound grandiloquent and overstated, but in 1994 there were few openly gay men on TV, and few people with AIDS.
Yet a moment like this seems so overblown, so grandiloquent, and so self-consciously heroic that it simply stuns me.
And then there was the grandiloquent Republican leader Everett Dirksen.
A celebrity whose egocentric and grandiloquent pronouncements reveal a potentially dangerous person in serious need of help?
Note as well their wily use of the word "stuff"—a bit of vernacular so the message doesn't get too grandiloquent.
I was unanimously recalled, and—to be grandiloquent—received with applause that made the welkin ring.
Just off the main square we secured quarters in a typical French inn of the second class, a small place with a grandiloquent name.
This relative of his, with his plausible and grandiloquent schemes, stood revealed a bankrupt swindler of the worst type.
If called on to prove his power, this grandiloquent Satan would turn out, I fear, to be a sorry thaumaturgist.
Friedrich has still his hopes of Bavaria, so grandiloquent are the French in regard to it; who but would hope?

/gran-dil-uh-kwuhnt/US // grænˈdɪl ə kwənt //UK // (ɡrænˈdɪləkwənt) //

大言不惭,大言不惭的,大言不惭的人,大言不惭地

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.

adj.pretentious, flowery (communication)

Synonyms

In 2014, this might sound grandiloquent and overstated, but in 1994 there were few openly gay men on TV, and few people with AIDS.
Yet a moment like this seems so overblown, so grandiloquent, and so self-consciously heroic that it simply stuns me.
And then there was the grandiloquent Republican leader Everett Dirksen.
A celebrity whose egocentric and grandiloquent pronouncements reveal a potentially dangerous person in serious need of help?
Note as well their wily use of the word "stuff"—a bit of vernacular so the message doesn't get too grandiloquent.
I was unanimously recalled, and—to be grandiloquent—received with applause that made the welkin ring.
Just off the main square we secured quarters in a typical French inn of the second class, a small place with a grandiloquent name.
This relative of his, with his plausible and grandiloquent schemes, stood revealed a bankrupt swindler of the worst type.
If called on to prove his power, this grandiloquent Satan would turn out, I fear, to be a sorry thaumaturgist.
Friedrich has still his hopes of Bavaria, so grandiloquent are the French in regard to it; who but would hope?