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grandiloquence

Meaning of "grandiloquence" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF GRANDILOQUENCE

ɡrænˈdɪləkwəns


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GRANDILOQUENCE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Grandiloquence is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES GRANDILOQUENCE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Verbosity

Verbosity is speech or writing which is deemed to use an excess of words. The opposite of verbosity is succinctness, which can be found in plain language, and laconism. Some teachers, including the author of The Elements of Style, warn writers not to be verbose. Similarly, some authors, including Mark Twain and Ernest Hemingway, use a succinct style and avoid verbosity. Synonyms for verbosity include wordiness, prolixity, grandiloquence, garrulousness, expatiation, and logorrhea. Corresponding adjectival forms are verbose, wordy, prolix, grandiloquent, garrulous, and logorrheic. Examples of verbosity are common in political speech, academic prose, and other genres.

Definition of grandiloquence in the English dictionary

The definition of grandiloquence in the dictionary is inflated, pompous, or bombastic style or expression.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GRANDILOQUENCE

consequence · eloquence · frequence · inconsequence · ineloquence · infrequence · magniloquence · main-sequence · multiloquence · sequence · somniloquence · subsequence

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GRANDILOQUENCE

grande dame · Grande-Terre · grandee · grandeeship · grandeur · grandfather · grandfather clause · grandfather clock · grandfatherly · grandiflora · grandiloquent · grandiloquently · grandiloquous · grandiose · grandiosely · grandioseness · grandiosity · grandioso · grandkid · grandly

WORDS THAT END LIKE GRANDILOQUENCE

affluence · amino acid sequence · at your convenience · confluence · congruence · consensus sequence · DNA sequence · effluence · Fibonacci sequence · film sequence · fluence · gene sequence · in consequence · incongruence · influence · insertion sequence · logical consequence · main sequence · noninfluence · sphere of influence · under the influence

Synonyms and antonyms of grandiloquence in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «grandiloquence» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GRANDILOQUENCE

Find out the translation of grandiloquence to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of grandiloquence from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «grandiloquence» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

豪言壮语
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

grandilocuencia
570 millions of speakers
en

English

grandiloquence
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

शब्दाडंबर युक्त लेक्चर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تفخيم
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

высокопарность
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

grandiloquência
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

grandiloquence
260 millions of speakers
fr

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grandiloquence
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Grandiloquence
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Schwülstigkeit
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

大げさな言葉遣い
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

grandiloquence
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Grandiloquence
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

khoa trương
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

grandiloquence
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

तालुका
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

tumturaklılık
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

magniloquenza
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

pompatyczność
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

пишномовність
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

grandilocvență
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

στόμφο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

hoogdrawendheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

grandiloquence
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

grandiloquence
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of grandiloquence

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GRANDILOQUENCE»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of grandiloquence
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about grandiloquence

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GRANDILOQUENCE»

Discover the use of grandiloquence in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to grandiloquence and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Modernist Imagination: Intellectual History and Critical ...
AGAINST. GRANDILOQUENCE. “Victim's. Culture”. and. Jewish. Memory. CarolynJ. Dean. Þ. The term post-Holocaust refers to a sixty-year period and an array of debates, theological, autobiographical, and philosophical texts, polemics  ...
Warren Breckman, Peter E. Gordon, A. Dirk Moses, 2013
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William Empson: The Critical Achievement
grandiloquence of language - Rosset's essential concept in the field of philosophy of language. This grandiloquence culminates in the so-called ' performative verbs', which claim to state and act at the same time, thus betraying the fact that ...
Christopher Norris, Nigel Mapp, 1993
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The Curse of the Manuscript-Eating Slushpile Monster
Grandiloquence—Easy. for. You. to. Say! I often consult a dictionary while reading manuscripts for submission. I never want to have to pull myself out of my comfy chair to go over to the bookshelf to look up a word while reading a novel. No way ...
Cindy Appel, 2008
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Sharp Vocab: Building Better Vocabulary Skills
(graan DIHL uh kwuhns)—pompous talk; fancy but meaningless language The headmistress was notorious for her grandiloquence at graduation, and everybody feared having to sit through her speech. MEMORY TIP Grandiloquence even ...
Kaplan, 2008
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Word Source: The Smarter Way to Learn Vocabulary
(eg zor TAY shun)—speech that advises or pleads The minister's exhortation convinced the mayor to show mercy toward the juvenile delinquents. grandiloquence n. (graan DIHL uh kwuhns)—pompous talk; fancy but meaningless language ...
Randy Howe, 2006
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Rebound: The American Poetry Book
"May 19, 1969", has the poet regarding what we can take to he his old grandiloquence, there on the lihrary shelves hoth to uphraid him and as an ohject of pride: "My lines swell up and spank like the how of a yacht" - this punningly spanking ...
Michael Hinds, Stephen Matterson, 2004
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Singing the Chaos: Madness and Wisdom in Modern Poetry
... suicide, madness of Roethke, Berryman, Jarrell and Lowell, "the last the most discouraging of all surviving to dissipate Lord Weary's Castle and nine subsequent useful poems in the seedy grandiloquence of Notebook." That was how Robert ...
William Pratt, 1996
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Lot 62
Available. now. from. Eternal. Press. Grandiloquence. by. Robert. Appleton. It is the distant future. A giant exoskeleton built around the earth permits anyone who can pay the price, access to the solitude of a space booth—the ultimate place to ...
Arthur Everest
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Here Be Dragons
Available. now. from. Eternal. Press. Grandiloquence. by. Robert. Appleton. It is the distant future. A giant exoskeleton built around the earth permits anyone who can pay the price, access to the solitude of a space booth—the ultimate place to ...
John B. Rosenman
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William Cowper: Religion, Satire, Society
George Eliot's useful definition of grandiloquence seizes on Night Thoughts as its proof text: The source of all grandiloquence is the want of taking for a criterion the true qualities of the object described, or the emotion expressed.
Conrad Brunström, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GRANDILOQUENCE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term grandiloquence is used in the context of the following news items.
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Orquestra Filharmónica de Mexico UNAM, Cadogan Hall, review …
The original is a fascinating, very refined piece, but here it wilted under the glare of Chavez's orchestral grandiloquence. Still, the Stokowski-like ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
2
US politicians steal the show at climate summit in Toronto
Even Al Gore – best known for being so boring that he lost a presidential election to George W. Bush – showed a little grandiloquence while ... «The Globe and Mail, Jul 15»
3
A sampling of editorials from Arkansas newspapers
Couldn't we just try to make our city planning rational without indulging in all this completely unnecessary, even provocative, grandiloquence? «NewsOK.com, Jul 15»
4
Film review: 'Baahubali' is a triumph of size, scale and spectacle
Yet, Rajamouli's emphasis on spectacle and grandiloquence doesn't blind him to the necessity of moving the story along. A flashback reveals ... «Scroll.in, Jul 15»
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Waving the bloody shirt (again)
Couldn't we just try to make our city planning rational without indulging in all this completely unnecessary, even provocative, grandiloquence? «Arkansas Online, Jul 15»
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Wilmington on Movies: The Third Man
... the sewers—both are designed around Welles, and because they're both shot with the kind of weirdly angled grandiloquence and impudent ... «Movie City News, Jul 15»
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Plea to recuse could be contempt
... attempts to overawe the Court with psychological offensives and mind games, with ferocity and grandiloquence without any factual basis held ... «The Hans India, Jul 15»
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UK notebook: Season tickets no longer a good deal, fan decides
(Rupp's reference to the psalmist shows UK basketball coaches have had a weakness for grandiloquence long before John Calipari.) Pertinent ... «Lexington Herald Leader, Jul 15»
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Stories forever
Both the writers were nakedly autobiographical and both enjoyed mixing a certain grandiloquence of style – words like 'human', 'self', 'species', ... «Hindu Business Line, Jul 15»
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Miguel letting the breeze blow through his hair. Source: Supplied
Gorman does low-key grandiloquence so well it's often hard to pin down how he nails it. ”I'm a boy so won't you let me be your evil toy,” he ... «NEWS.com.au, Jul 15»
REFERENCE
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