magniloquent
/mag-NIL-uh-kwunt/adjectiveusing high-flown, lofty language; grandiose in speech
“His magniloquent toast turned a birthday into a coronation.”
- Synonyms
- grandiloquent, pompous, bombastic
- Antonyms
- plain, modest
- Root
- loqu- (speak)
- Memory hook
- magni (great) + loquent (speaking): great big speech.
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