gran-DIL-uh-kwuhnt, adjective:
Lofty in style; pompous; bombastic. Full of fine words and fancy expressions - marked by the use of impressive-sounding but mostly meaningless words and phrases.
He became more than usually grandiloquent as if to make up for the years of silence with words of gold.
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using big or important words in order to impress
the american psycho feigned intelligence by being grandiloquent
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a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in languag
Her big features matched its grandiloquence and spoke volumes from a distance