Associations to the word «Grandiloquent»

Wiktionary

GRANDILOQUENT, adjective. (of a person, their language or writing) given to using language in a showy way by using an excessive amount of difficult words to impress others; bombastic; turgid

Dictionary definition

GRANDILOQUENT, adjective. Lofty in style; "he engages in so much tall talk, one never really realizes what he is saying".
GRANDILOQUENT, adjective. Puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek.

Wise words

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
Robert Burton