Associations to the word «Grandiose»

Wiktionary

GRANDIOSE, adjective. Large and impressive, in size, scope or extent
GRANDIOSE, adjective. Pompous or pretentious

Dictionary definition

GRANDIOSE, adjective. Impressive because of unnecessary largeness or grandeur; used to show disapproval.
GRANDIOSE, adjective. Affectedly genteel.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne