grandiose
/GRAN-dee-ohss/adjectiveimpressive in an exaggerated or pompous way
“The grandiose lobby hid a company two payrolls from ruin.”
- Synonyms
- pompous, ostentatious, overblown
- Antonyms
- modest, unpretentious
- Memory hook
- grand + iose: grandeur inflated past the budget.
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