GRANDILOQUENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grandiloquence mean? 

• GRANDILOQUENCE (noun)
  The noun GRANDILOQUENCE has 1 sense:

1. high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation

  Familiarity information: GRANDILOQUENCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRANDILOQUENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

High-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

grandiloquence; grandiosity; magniloquence; ornateness; rhetoric

Context example:

an excessive ornateness of language

Hypernyms ("grandiloquence" is a kind of...):

expressive style; style (a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grandiloquence"):

flourish (a display of ornamental speech or language)

blah; bombast; claptrap; fustian; rant (pompous or pretentious talk or writing)

Derivation:

grandiloquent (lofty in style)