grandiloquence

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: gran=dil=o=quence

CIDE DICTIONARY

grandiloquence, n. 

 The use of lofty words or phrases; bombast; -- usually in a bad sense.  [1913 Webster]
"The sin of grandiloquence or tall talking."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

grandiloquence

affectation, aggrandizement, amplification, ballyhoo, big talk, blowing up, burlesque, caricature, command of language, dilatation, dilation, enhancement, enlargement, exaggerating, exaggeration, excess, exorbitance, expansion, expression of ideas, extravagance, extreme, fashion, feeling for words, form of speech, grace of expression, hard word, heightening, huckstering, hyperbole, hyperbolism, inflation, inordinacy, jawbreaker, lexiphanicism, literary style, long word, magnification, manner, manner of speaking, mannerism, mode, mode of expression, orotundity, overemphasis, overestimation, overkill, overstatement, peculiarity, personal style, polysyllable, pomposity, pompousness, pontificality, pontification, prodigality, profuseness, puffery, puffing up, rhetoric, self-importance, sensationalism, sense of language, sesquipedalian, strain, stretching, stuffiness, style, stylistic analysis, stylistics, superlative, tall talk, the grand style, the plain style, the sublime, touting, travesty, trick, turgidity, vein, way

ROGET THESAURUS

grandiloquence

Speech

N speech, faculty of speech, locution, talk, parlance, verbal intercourse, prolation, oral communication, word of mouth, parole, palaver, prattle, effusion, oration, recitation, delivery, say, speech, lecture, harangue, sermon, tirade, formal speech, peroration, speechifying, soliloquy, allocution, conversation, salutatory : screed: valedictory, oratory, elocution, eloquence, rhetoric, declamation, grandiloquence, multiloquence, burst of eloquence, facundity, flow of words, command of words, command of language, copia verborum, power of speech, gift of the gab, usus loquendi, speaker, spokesman, prolocutor, interlocutor, mouthpiece, Hermes, orator, oratrix, oratress, Demosthenes, Cicero, rhetorician, stump orator, platform orator, speechmaker, patterer, improvisatore, speaking, spoken, oral, lingual, phonetic, not written, unwritten, outspoken, eloquent, elocutionary, oratorical, rhetorical, declamatory, grandiloquent, talkative, Ciceronian, nuncupative, Tullian, orally, by word of mouth, viva voce, from the lips of, quoth he, said he, action is eloquence, pour the full tide of eloquence along, she speaks poignards and every word stabs, speech is but broken light upon the depth of the u, to try thy eloquence now 'tis time.