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grandiose
adjective
(gran-di-ose)
affectedly genteel
Synonyms:
hifalutin
,
highfalutin
,
highfaluting
, hoity-toity, la-di-da,
grandiose
adjective
(gran-di-ose)
impressive because of unnecessary largeness or grandeur; used to show disapproval
Words Related to
grandiose
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pretentious
,
highfalutin
,
hifalutin
,
highfaluting
,
impressive
,
hoity-toity
,
la-di-da
,
bombastic
,
grand
,
pompous
,
lofty
,
conceited
,
majestic
,
spectacular
,
presumptuous
,
noble
,
turgid
,
epic
,
magnificent
,
sweeping
,
splendid
,
brilliant
,
beautiful
,
big
,
wicked
,
amazing
,
awesome
,
large
,
major
,
wonderful
,
marvellous
,
superb
,
great
,
high-flown
,
high-minded
,
high-sounding
,
stuck-up
,
grandiloquent
,
tremendous
,
extravagant
,
fanciful
,
ostentatious
,
hubristic
,
outlandish
,
ambitious
,
preposterous
,
vainglorious
,
lavish
,
gaudy
,
opulent
,
boastful
,
utopian
,
fantastical
,
glitzy
,
megalomaniacal
,
showy
,
gargantuan
,
melodramatic
,
grotesque
,
vacuous
,
florid
,
garish
,
flashy
,
unrealistic
,
histrionic
,
absurd
,
delusional
,
elaborate
,
nonsensical
,
grander
,
prosaic
,
portentous
,
triumphal
,
wishful
,
overambitious
,
hyperbolic
,
lexiphanic
,
phantasmagorical
,
altisonant
,
banal
,
lexiphanicism
,
quixotic
,
farfetched
,
chimerical
,
unpompous
,
splashy
,
fatuous
,
messianic
,
expansionist
,
hackneyed
,
splendiferous
,
rococo
,
implausible
,
conceptual
,
oneiric
,
sententious
,
audacious
,
pollyannaish
,
incongruous
,
overdetermined
,
grandiose
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