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magniloquent
adjective
formal mainly disapprovinguk /mæɡˈnɪl.ə.kwənt/ us /mæɡˈnɪl.ə.kwənt/
A magniloquent style or way of using language is complicated, especially in order to make someone or something seem intelligent or important. :
The reporters ridiculed her magniloquent speeches.
Good writing is never very good if it is magniloquent, pretentious, or affected.
The president can deploy such magniloquent language without any actual commitment to the details.
There were several magniloquent overstatements in the first chapter of the book.
The magniloquent statements in the first stanza of the poem are neatly in paralleled the second.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Exaggerating & playing down
bloviate
blow something out of proportionidiom
cartoonish
cartoonishly
catastrophize
fulsome
go overboardidiom
inflated
make a mountain out of a molehillidiom
make much of somethingidiom
make something of something/someone
meal
mildly
minimization
OTT
over-egg
protest too muchidiom
romanticize
underplay
underrate
Synonym
grandiloquent
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