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Magniloquent

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Lofty and extravagant in speech; grandiloquent.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic; tumid in style; grandiloquent.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic; tumid in style; grandiloquent.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Speaking or writing in a lofty style; grandiloquent; bombastic.

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

adj. lofty in style

Word Usage

"Briefly, _Tamburlaine_ -- the play which made the greatest impression on the playwrights of its time -- may be described as a magniloquent account of the career of a world-conqueror whose resistless triumph over kingdoms and potentates, signalized by acts of monstrous insolence, provides excuse for outbursts of extravagant vainglory."

Equivalent

rhetorical

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

bombastic grandiloquent bombasti fustian lexiphanic

Same Context

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