magniloquent
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From post-Classical Latin magniloquens (“talkative, verbose”).
Adjective
[edit]magniloquent (comparative more magniloquent, superlative most magniloquent)
- Using pompous speech; speaking with deliberately long or esoteric words.
- Synonyms: bombastic, tumid, grandiloquent, pompous
- 2012, David Skinner, The Story of Ain't: America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published, HarperCollins, page 40:
- The sermonizer, said Dwight [Macdonald], was guilty of "puerile, stupid twaddle" and seemed to have "a remarkable power of hypnotizing himself with magniloquent platitudes."
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[edit]Translations
[edit]speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic
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References
[edit]- “magniloquent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.