🔤 Grandiloquent (Adjective)

IPA: //ɡrænˈdɪləkwənt//

✨ Use grandiloquent when someone’s words are dressed in tuxedos but have nowhere important to go.

🧠 Meaning

Using lofty, pompous, or extravagant language to impress or sound important.

✍️ Example Sentences

🔹 The politician’s grandiloquent speech was full of big words but short on substance.

🔹 His grandiloquent storytelling made even the simplest events sound like epic adventures.

📜 Word Origin

From Latin grandiloquus — grandis (“grand”) + loqui (“to speak”).

💡 Did You Know?

Grandiloquent can be used playfully to mock overly fancy language—or seriously to critique pretentious communication.

🏷️ Related Words

#pompous #pretentious #bombastic #verbose #flowery #orotund

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