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Word | Grandiose |
affectedly genteel / impressive because of unnecessary largeness or grandeur / Impressive or elevating in effect / With an affectation of grandeur / pretentious; high-flown; ridiculously exaggerated; impressive / impressive or magnificent in appearance or style, especially pretentiously so. / seeming to be impressive or intended to be impressive but not really possible or practical, | |
Usage | ⇒ The sweeping, grandiose staircase looked preposterous in the modest entry hall. ⇒ The aged matinee idol still had grandiose notions of his supposed importance in the theatrical world. ⇒ He was full of grandiose ideas. ⇒ the court's grandiose facade ⇒ Our grandiose plan was completely impractical ⇒ a grandiose room |
Synonyms | pompous, pretentious, grand, highfalutin, magnificent, bombastic, ostentatious, showy, flamboyant, lofty, affected, hifalutin, majestic, ambitious, grandiloquent, high-flown, impressive, inflated, extravagant, imposing, |
Antonyms | unpretentious, moderate, unimpressive, ascetic, calm, down-to-earth, homely, humble, lowly, modest, small, trivial, unassuming, abject, arduous, artless, atomic, atrocious, austere, average, |
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