magniloquent

English

Adjective

magniloquent (comparative more magniloquent, superlative most magniloquent)

1. Speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic; tumid in style; grandiloquent.

Synonyms

• fustian
• lexiphanic

Translations

speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic

Hungarian: dagályos (hu), fellengzős (hu)

Irish: mórfhoclach (ga)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.