Grandiloquent
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

4 letters

TALL
A garment size for a tall person

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LOFTY
Having or displaying great dignity or nobility; "a gallant pageant"; "lofty ships"; "majestic cities"; "proud alpine peaks"

WITTY
Combining clever conception and facetious expression; "his sermons were unpredictably witty and satirical as well as eloquent"

WORDY
Using or containing too many words; "long-winded (or windy) speakers"; "verbose and ineffective instructional methods"; "newspapers of the day printed long wordy editorials"; "proceedings were delayed by wordy disputes"

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FLORID
Inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life; "a ruddy complexion"; "Santa's rubicund cheeks"; "a fresh and sanguine complexion"

PURPLE
Of a color intermediate between red and blue

TURGID
Ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"

ORNATE
Marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details; "a flowery speech"; "ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato"-John Milton

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OROTUND
Ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"

VERBOSE
Using or containing too many words; "long-winded (or windy) speakers"; "verbose and ineffective instructional methods"; "newspapers of the day printed long wordy editorials"; "proceedings were delayed by wordy disputes"

FULSOME
Unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; "buttery praise"; "gave him a fulsome introduction"; "an oily sycophantic press agent"; "oleaginous hypocrisy"; "smarmy self-importance"; "the unctuous Uriah Heep"; "soapy compliments"

POMPOUS
Puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek

FUSTIAN
A strong cotton and linen fabric with a slight nap

FLOWERY
Marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details; "a flowery speech"; "ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato"-John Milton

AUREATE
Having the deep slightly brownish color of gold; "long aureate (or golden) hair"; "a gold carpet"

STILTED
Artificially formal; "that artificial humility that her husband hated"; "contrived coyness"; "a stilted letter of acknowledgment"; "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation"

SWOLLEN
Characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance; "a conceited fool"; "an attitude of self-conceited arrogance"; "an egotistical disregard of others"; "so swollen by victory that he was unfit for normal duty"; "growing ever more swollen-headed and arbitrary"; "vain about her clothes"

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SNOBBISH
Befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior

IGNORANT
Uneducated in the fundamentals of a given art or branch of learning; lacking knowledge of a specific field; "she is ignorant of quantum mechanics"; "he is musically illiterate"

ELEVATED
A railway that is powered by electricity and that runs on a track that is raised above the street level

INFLATED
Enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness; "a hyperbolic style"

ELOQUENT
Expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively; "able to dazzle with his facile tongue"; "silver speech"

SONOROUS
Full and loud and deep; "heavy sounds"; "a herald chosen for his sonorous voice"

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HIGHFLOWN

OVERBLOWN
Past the stage of full bloom; "overblown roses"

BOMBASTIC
Ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"

SICKENING
Causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"

BIGTAKING

EXCESSIVE
Beyond normal limits; "excessive charges"; "a book of inordinate length"; "his dress stops just short of undue elegance"; "unreasonable demands"

ELABORATE
Marked by complexity and richness of detail; "an elaborate lace pattern"

DIGNIFIED
Having or expressing dignity; especially formality or stateliness in bearing or appearance; "her dignified demeanor"; "the director of the school was a dignified white-haired gentleman"

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ORATORICAL
Characteristic of an orator or oratory; "oratorical prose"; "harangued his men in an oratorical way"- Robert Graves

HISTRIONIC
Characteristic of acting or a stage performance; often affected; "histrionic gestures"; "an attitude of melodramatic despair"; "a theatrical pose"

EUPHUISTIC

RHETORICAL
Given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought; "mere rhetorical frippery"

TALLTAKING

PONTIFICAL
The vestments and other insignia of a pontiff (especially a bishop)

PORTENTOUS
Ominously prophetic

ARTIFICIAL
Contrived by art rather than nature; "artificial flowers"; "artificial flavoring"; "an artificial diamond"; "artificial fibers"; "artificial sweeteners"

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DECLAMATORY
Ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"

PRETENTIOUS
Intended to attract notice and impress others; "an ostentatious sable coat"

EXAGGERATED
Enlarged to an abnormal degree; "thick lenses exaggerated the size of her eyes"

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MAGNILOQUENT
Lofty in style; "he engages in so much tall talk, one never really realizes what he is saying"