Synonyms for magniloquent
- adjective
Most common
pompous bombastic grandiloquent tumid altiloquent lexiphanic
All synonyms
Adjective
1. Grandiloquent
grandiloquent, pompous, bombastic, tumid, tall, inflated, rhetorical, stilted, boastful, turgid, declamatory, orotund, fustian, pretentious, grandiose, highfalutin
Other
Definitions
- adj. 1
Using pompous speech; speaking with deliberately long or esoteric words.
Example sentences
- pompous It's much too pompous for such a trivial thing.
- bombastic I don't usually like bombastic music.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| magniloquent | falling | |
| pompous | rising | |
| bombastic | rising | |
| grandiloquent | steady | |
| tumid | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- tall1
- 5 letters
- tumid
- 6 letters
- turgid2
- 7 letters
- pompous2, stilted2, fustian3, orotund
- 8 letters
- inflated3, boastful2
- 9 letters
- grandiose3, bombastic3
- 10 letters
- rhetorical4, lexiphanic
- 11 letters
- pretentious3, declamatory, highfalutin4, altiloquent
- 13 letters
- grandiloquent4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (turgid2 = 2 syllables).