What are some opposite words for grandiose?
Antonyms for grandiose
ˈgræn diˌoʊsgrandiose
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term grandiose.
Princeton's WordNet
grandioseadjective
impressive because of unnecessary largeness or grandeur; used to show disapproval
Antonyms:
unpretentious, unimpressiveSynonyms:
hifalutin, hoity-toity, highfalutin, la-di-da, highfalutinggrandiose, hifalutin, highfalutin, highfaluting, hoity-toity, la-di-daadjective
affectedly genteel
Antonyms:
unpretentious, unimpressiveSynonyms:
hifalutin, hoity-toity, highfalutin, la-di-da, highfaluting
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
grandioseadjective
Synonyms:
impressing, imposing, bombastic, turgid, declamatory, grandiloquent
How to use grandiose in a sentence?
I’m not trying to be grandiose but if not me then who? somebody has to tell the Indianapolis parents that this stuff is going on. I put up with a lot but lying to parents about what we do so that they don’t even have a choice to get their kids out of the district?
Richard Nixon lied to gain love, to shore up his grandiose fantasies, to bolster his ever-wavering sense of identity. He lied in attack, hoping to win and always he lied, and this most aggressively, to deny that he lied.
Athens was about the classics, Beijing was grandiose and muscular, London was smart, and ours - ours will be cool.
My father had grandiose plans for me ; he wanted me to be Benito Juarez.
“I emphatically do not assert the general ‘truth’ of this philosophy of punctuational change. Any attempt to support the exclusive validity of such a grandiose notion would border on the nonsensical.”
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#53195 | grandiose | |
#68285 | unpretentious | |
#88290 | unimpressive |
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