Synonym: hifalutin, highfalutin, highfaluting, hoity-toity, la-di-da. Similar words: aggrandize, grandiloquent, idiosyncrasy, idiosyncratic, compendious, carbon dioxide, indisposed, grand. Meaning: ['grændɪəʊs] adj. 1. impressive because of unnecessary largeness or grandeur; used to show disapproval 2. affectedly genteel.
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(31) Their proposals are simple, grandiose in scope and traverse party lines.
(32) This was completely different from any idea of grandiose constitutional changes.
(33) Once Louis's advisers were involved these grandiose plans gave way to more realistic ones.
(34) Most importantly, it should be cheaper than some grandiose schemes being floated to bring back the age of sail.
(35) The bombastic, vainglorious Nivelle had virtually announced to the world his grandiose expectations, making the dreadful defeat doubly damaging.
(36) These are the grandiose stone-built mill at Ebley and the equally impressive brick-built Stanley Mill.
(37) His inclination is to shy away from grandiose strategies and concentrate on return on capital and customer service.
(38) In such a context Mr Bush's grandiose schemes are not only unwelcome; they are an irrelevance.
(39) The grandiose scale of events projected by the pre-event publicity was a far cry from reality.
(40) Despite Mr Haider's grandiose, unbelievable last-minute pledges to clean up his act, there should be no wavering.
(41) Grandiose Victorian pub with ornate plaster-work ceiling and a nice summer beer garden.
(42) The Schlieffen Plan as implemented in 1914 had been the most grandiose product so far of this cast of thought.
(43) Anthony Hope would hardly have supported any grandiose claims for his tales of Ruritania.
(44) It was a grandiose spectacle, and one that stirred popular emotion.
(45) Whoever suggested the grandiose title and subtitle of this book was looking down the wrong end of a microscope.
(46) To ask for definitive answers to such grandiose questions would, of course, be a tall order.
(47) Antarctica has always inspired grandiose schemes.
(48) It is a grandiose project.
(49) Others had less grandiose grudges from 2010. "Inhibition, passive smoking and restless leg syndrome," Seth Magee, a graphic artist, wrote on his paper. Sentencedict.com
(50) People are put off by grandiose institutions, rigid timetables and intimidating courses.
(51) "It's the most grandiose, caricatural, corrosive demolition of the image of the Italian mamma," said Italy's leading daily Corriere della Sera.
(52) People experiencing hypomanic symptoms typically have a flood of ideas, and sometimes mildly grandiose thoughts and visions.
(53) Where it was once dark, rich and improvised, now it was squeaky clean, bright, metronomic, given to grandiose rockisms.
(54) Narcissistic Personality Disorder – An enduring pattern of behavior characterized by excessive attention to oneself, grandiose thinking, and need for admiration.
(55) Federalists who sought integration by pursuing first a grandiose constitution and then, by hook or by crook, the Lisbon treaty have won a Pyrrhic victory.
(56) Undergraduates wet behind the ears, reach professional career to future the outline of grandiose blue print.
(57) According to Hellenic myth, general deity? Zeus has a grandiose temple on Olympus.
(58) Highlights in the south are the grandiose Fish River Canyon and the Sossusvlei region of the Namib Desert.
(59) She attacked her colleagues for indulging in "grandiose and grandiloquent language".
(60) As the fog vanished, a grandiose landscape unfolded before the tourists.
More similar words: aggrandize, grandiloquent, idiosyncrasy, idiosyncratic, compendious, carbon dioxide, indisposed, grand, branding, a grand, grant, transpose, grandma, grandpa, granny, grandee, transposed, vagrant, granted, grandeur, grandson, fragrant, grand jury, grandmother, flagrant, vagrancy, grandfather, emigrant, modus operandi, grandchild.