Antonyms for grandiose
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : gran-dee-ohs |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈgræn diˌoʊs |
Definition 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
- 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
Synonyms for grandiose
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