Word Meanings - GRANDIOSITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The state or quality of being grandiose,
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GRANDIOSITY)
- Grandiloquence
- Verbosity
- pomposity
- mouthiness
- grandiosity
- antiloquence
- stiltedness
- euphuism
- turgidity
- fustian
- bombast
Related words: (words related to GRANDIOSITY)
- GRANDILOQUENCE
The use of lofty words or phrases; bombast; -- usually in a bad sense. The sin of grandiloquence or tall talking. Thackeray, - BOMBAST
a doublet of cotton; hence, padding, wadding, fustian. See 1. Originally, cotton, or cotton wool. A candle with a wick of bombast. Lupton. 2. Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding. How now, my sweet - FUSTIAN
It. fustagno, fr. LL. fustaneum, fustanum; cf. Pr. fustani, Sp. 1. A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc. 2. An inflated style of writing; a kind of writing in which high- sounding words are - VERBOSITY
The quality or state of being verbose; the use of more words than are necessary; prolixity; wordiness; verbiage. The worst fault, by far, is the extreme diffuseness and verbosity of his style. Jeffrey. - FUSTIANIST
A writer of fustian. Milton. - GRANDIOSITY
The state or quality of being grandiose, - EUPHUISM
An affectation of excessive elegance and refinement of language; high-flown diction. - POMPOSITY
The quality or state of being pompous; pompousness. Thackeray. - BOMBASTRY
Swelling words without much meaning; bombastic language; fustian. Bombastry and buffoonery, by nature lofty and light, soar highest of all. Swift. - BOMBASTIC; BOMBASTICAL
Characterized by bombast; highsounding; inflated. -- Bom*bas"tic*al*ly, adv. A theatrical, bombastic, windy phraseology. Burke. Syn. -- Turgid; tumid; pompous; grandiloquent. - TURGIDITY
The quality or state of being turgid.