Word Meanings - GRANDILOQUENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Speaking in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GRANDILOQUENT)

• Declamatory
• Loud
• noisy
• incoherent
• discursive
• loose
• inconsecutive
• grandiloquent
• rhetorical
• high-sounding
• Tumid
• Swollen
• distended
• protuberant
• inflated
• turgid
• bombastic
• pompous
• high-flown
• stilted

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of GRANDILOQUENT)

• Tie
• fasten
• hold
• retain

Related words: (words related to GRANDILOQUENT)

• HIGH-SOUNDING
  Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
• INFLATE
  Blown in; inflated. Chaucer.
• INFLATED
  Hollow and distended, as a perianth, corolla, nectary, or pericarp. Martyn. 4. Distended or enlarged fictitiously; as, inflated prices, etc. (more info) 1. Filled, as with air or gas; blown up; distended; as, a balloon inflated with gas. 2. Turgid;
• TUMIDITY
  The quality or state of being tumid.
• SWOLLEN
  p. p. of Swell.
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• FASTENER
  One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.
• INFLATER
  One who, or that which, inflates; as, the inflaters of the stock exchange.
• GRANDILOQUENT
  Speaking in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic.
• LOOSE
  laus, Icel. lauss; akin to OD. loos, D. los, AS. leás false, deceitful, G. los, loose, Dan. & Sw. lös, Goth. laus, and E. lose. 1. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book. Her hair,
• PROTUBERANT
  Prominent, or excessively prominent; bulging beyond the surrounding or adjacent surface; swelling; as, a protuberant joint; a protuberant eye. -- Pro*tu"ber*ant*ly, adv.
• HIGH-FLOWN
  1. Elevated; proud. "High-flown hopes." Denham. 2. Turgid; extravagant; bombastic; inflated; as, high-flown language. M. Arnold.
• POMPOUS
  1. Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur; magnificent; as, a pompous procession. 2. Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious; as, pompous manners; a pompous style. "Pompous in high presumption." Chaucer. he pompous vanity of the
• LOOSEN
  Etym: 1. To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a rock in the earth. After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening
• NOISY
  1. Making a noise, esp. a loud sound; clamorous; vociferous; turbulent; boisterous; as, the noisy crowd. 2. Full of noise. "The noisy town." Dryden.
• TURGIDOUS
  Turgid. B. Jonson.
• LOOSESTRIFE
  The name of several species of plants of the genus Lysimachia, having small star-shaped flowers, usually of a yellow color. Any species of the genus Lythrum, having purple, or, in some species, crimson flowers. Gray. False loosestrife, a plant
• DECLAMATORY
  1. Pertaining to declamation; treated in the manner of a rhetorician; as, a declamatory theme. 2. Characterized by rhetorical display; pretentiously rhetorical; without solid sense or argument; bombastic; noisy; as, a declamatory way or style.
• INCOHERENT
  1. Not coherent; wanting cohesion; loose; unconnected; physically disconnected; not fixed to each; -- said of material substances. Woodward. 2. Wanting coherence or agreement; incongruous; inconsistent; having no dependence of one part on another;
• INFLATINGLY
  In a manner tending to inflate.
• UNFASTEN
  To loose; to unfix; to unbind; to untie.
• COPPER-FASTENED
  Fastened with copper bolts, as the planks of ships, etc.; as, a copper-fastened ship.
• UNLOOSEN
  To loosen; to unloose.