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grandiose
/ɡɹæn.diˈoʊs/
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What does grandiose mean?
adjective
- Large and impressive in size, scope or extent.
- Pompous or pretentious.
- magnificent or spectacular.
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IPA pronunciation
/ɡɹæn.diˈoʊs/
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In the meantime, let there be no halt, no hesitation, no pause in the grandiose onward march of minds.
From that, in answer to my questions, he came round to his grandiose plans again.
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They evoke grandiose and vague images in men's minds, but this very vagueness that wraps them in obscurity augments their mysterious power.
This, if less grandiose, would have been as final a catastrophe.
They want, first of all, to know what the country is like-not in vague and grandiose “word paintings,” nor in strange and foreign sounding words and phrases, but in comparison with something they know.