grandiloquence
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation
the grandiosity of his prose
Types & categories
- expressive style hypernym
- flourish hyponym
- fustian hyponym
Related & opposite
- hifalutin derivation
- ornate derivation
- grandiloquent derivation
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | hifalutin |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | ornate |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | grandiloquent |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | expressive style |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | flourish |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | fustian |