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. Charles Bukowski:

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

2. Francisco Toledo:

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

3. Charles Bukowski:

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

4. 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.

5. Theory Kinnett:

   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?