Synonyms for grandiose
ˈgræn diˌoʊsgrandiose

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1. grandioseadjective

   impressive because of unnecessary largeness or grandeur; used to show disapproval

   Synonyms:
   hifalutin, hoity-toity, highfalutin, la-di-da, highfaluting

   Antonyms:
   unpretentious, unimpressive

2. grandiose, hifalutin, highfalutin, highfaluting, hoity-toity, la-di-daadjective

   affectedly genteel

   Synonyms:
   hifalutin, hoity-toity, highfalutin, la-di-da, highfaluting

   Antonyms:
   unpretentious, unimpressive

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1. grandioseadjective

   Synonyms:
   impressing, imposing, bombastic, turgid, declamatory, grandiloquent

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1. List of paraphrases for "grandiose":

   pompous, grand, presumptuous, magnificent, pretentious

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How to use grandiose in a sentence?

1. Fernando Meirelles:

   Athens was about the classics, Beijing was grandiose and muscular, London was smart, and ours - ours will be cool.

2. Charles Bukowski:

   You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

3. Stephen Jay Gould:

   “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.”

4. Francisco Toledo:

   My father had grandiose plans for me ; he wanted me to be Benito Juarez.

5. Fawn M. Brodie:

   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.