Definitions for grandiloquent

Overview of adj grandiloquent

The adj grandiloquent has 2 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)

1. grandiloquent, magniloquent, tall

(lofty in style; "he engages in so much tall talk, one never really realizes what he is saying")

2. grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous

(puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek)