Synonyms for grandiose
- adjective
Most common
All synonyms
Adjective
1. Bombastic
bombastic, pompous, pretentious, highfalutin, glorious, imposing, declamatory, turgid, stilted, hoity-toity, la de da, grandiloquent, highfaluting, hifalutin, majestic, high-sounding, inflated, haughty, supercilious, rhetorical, magniloquent
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Definitions
- adj. 1
Large and impressive in size, scope or extent.
Related words
- Word family
- grandiosely grandioseness grand grandeur grandiosity
Example sentences
- pretentious I now have the ability to be a pretentious prick.
- pompous It's much too pompous for such a trivial thing.
- bombastic I don't usually like bombastic music.
- impressive Would you like to see something really impressive?
- magnificent Have you honestly ever seen a view so magnificent?
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| grandiose | steady | |
| pretentious | steady | |
| pompous | rising | |
| bombastic | rising | |
| highfalutin | rising | |
| impressive | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 6 letters
- turgid2
- 7 letters
- pompous2, haughty2, stilted2
- 8 letters
- glorious3, imposing3, majestic3, inflated3
- 9 letters
- bombastic3, hifalutin
- 10 letters
- impressive3, rhetorical4
- 11 letters
- magnificent4, pretentious3, highfalutin4, declamatory
- 12 letters
- supercilious5, highfaluting, magniloquent
- 13 letters
- grandiloquent4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (turgid2 = 2 syllables).