Synonyms for grandiose

Grammar : Adj

Spell : gran-dee-ohs

Phonetic Transcription : ˈgræn diˌoʊs

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Définition of grandiose

Origin : 1828 (earlier as a French word in English), from French grandiose "impressive" (18c.), from Italian grandioso, from Latin grandis "big" (see grand (adj.)). Related: Grandiosely.

adj theatrical, extravagant

Example sentences :

But the speech was sufficiently emphatic, and its words were grandiose and even florid.
Extract from : « The Eternal City » by Hall Caine

Tomas Castro dropped his ragged cloak with a grandiose gesture.
Extract from : « Romance » by Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer

His grandfather a painter of the grandiose or Michael Angelo school.
Extract from : « The Biglow Papers » by James Russell Lowell

It was a supreme opportunity for being able to display his grandiose achievements.
Extract from : « Debts of Honor » by Maurus Jkai

Berlioz was above all the composer of the grandiose, the magnificent.
Extract from : « A Popular History of the Art of Music » by W. S. B. Mathews

Everything revealed a luxury thought-out, settled, grandiose, and assured.
Extract from : « The Nabob » by Alphonse Daudet

And about this time, he began working on a grandiose and picturesque enterprise.
Extract from : « American Men of Mind » by Burton E. Stevenson

Behind all his activities in the Bad Lands loomed a grandiose purpose.
Extract from : « Roosevelt in the Bad Lands » by H. Hagedorn.

It was not much of a hall, in the grandiose sense of the word.
Extract from : « The Dictator » by Justin McCarthy

He talked in a grandiose style of the duties of station and the woes of wealth.
Extract from : « A Strange Story, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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