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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Grandiose \Gran"di*ose"\, adjective [F. grandiose, It. grandioso. See {Grand}.]
1. Impressive or elevating in effect; imposing; splendid; striking; -- in a good sense.
The tone of the parts was to be perpetually kept down in order not to impair the grandiose effect of the whole. --M. Arnold.
The grandiose red tulips which grow wild. --C. Kingsley.
2. Characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor; flaunting; turgid; bombastic; -- in a bad sense; as, a grandiose style.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
grandiose
adjective
1: impressive because of unnecessary largeness or grandeur; used to show disapproval
2: affectedly genteel [syn: {hifalutin}, {highfalutin}, {highfaluting}, {hoity-toity}, {la-di-da}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
103 Moby Thesaurus words for "grandiose": Babylonian, Corinthian, Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, ambitious, august, awe-inspiring, awful, barbaric, bedizened, big-sounding, bombastic, convoluted, cosmic, declamatory, deluxe, elaborate, elegant, elevated, euphuistic, extravagant, fancy, fine, flamboyant, flaming, flash, flashy, flaunting, florid, fulsome, fustian, garish, gaudy, glorious, grand, grandiloquent, grandisonant, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, highfalutin, histrionic, imposing, impressive, inflated, inkhorn, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty, lordly, lurid, luxurious, magnificent, magniloquent, majestic, melodramatic, meretricious, monumental, noble, orotund, ostentatious, overambitious, overdone, overelaborate, overinvolved, overwhelming, overwrought, palatial, pedantic, plush, pompous, posh, pretentious, princely, proud, rhetorical, ritzy, royal, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, showy, sonorous, splendacious, splendid, splendiferous, stately, stilted, sumptuous, superb, superfancy, superfine, swank, swanky, swell, tall, tortuous, unfathomable, utopian, vast, visionary
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