Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Speaking or expressed in a lofty style; bombastic; pompous.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Speaking in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective of a person overly wordy, pompous, flowery, or elaborate.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective puffed up with vanity
  • adjective lofty in style

Etymologies

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From Latin grandiloquus, from grandis ("great, full") + loquor ("speak")

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  • The best word to describe Truman Capote.

    December 10, 2006

  • Words that define themselves?

    January 13, 2008

  • Truman Capote? I think not. homosexual is the best word to describe him.

    Is this word not synonomous with magniloquent?

    November 18, 2008

  • Quentessentially, yes.

    November 18, 2008

  • Try schadenfreudgiloquent.

    November 18, 2008

  • Why is "homosexual" the best word? Like him or not, there are certainly other aspects to the man.

    November 18, 2008

  • Defenatly.

    November 18, 2008