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Another word for grandiloquent

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grandiloquent

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pompous, histrionic, bombastic; see bombastic, oratorical. See syn. study at bombastic.

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adjective

Characterized by language that is elevated and sometimes pompous in style:

aureate, bombastic, declamatory, flowery, fustian, high-flown, high-sounding, magniloquent, orotund, overblown, rhetorical, sonorous, swollen. See plain, style, words

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Aldhelm wrote in elaborate and grandiloquent Latin, which soon came to be regarded as barbarous.
"Lord God of might, God of our salvation!" began the priest in that voice, clear, not grandiloquent but mild, in which only the Slav clergy read and which acts so irresistibly on a Russian heart.

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