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/grˌændiˈoʊs/ /grˈændiˌoʊs/ Listen

adjective

Grandiose adj.

Impressive or elevating in effect; imposing; splendid; striking; in a good sense. "The tone of the parts was to be perpetually kept down in order not to impair the grandiose effect of the whole." "The grandiose red tulips which grow wild."

Characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor; flaunting; turgid; bombastic; in a bad sense; as, a grandiose style.

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Etymology of 'Grandiose'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Grandiose" Quotes from Famous Books

... to the Cirque de Troumouse leading through a field above us, as we reached the zigzag's top. Still gently ascending round the foot of the Coumelie, the pointed summit of the lofty Taillon (10,323 ft.) came into view ahead, with the grandiose Campbieil (10,418 ft.) up the Heas valley; and the Pic de Saugue immediately above on the right, from whose height the splendid Cascade d'Arroudet, dashing past the shepherds' cottages, launches its foaming showers into the river below. A few more graceful curvings of the ...

— Twixt France and Spain • E. Ernest Bilbrough

... get to the reason I have summoned you. Yesterday in my father's office you intimated that you had some grandiose scheme which would bring victory to the Haer colors. But then, on some thin excuse, refused to divulge just what ...

— Mercenary • Dallas McCord Reynolds

... wild-cat schemes and fraudulent speculations, but they were voted cranks by the majority, and the Consolidated Provident Savings Company grew and flourished. It paid large dividends, and its stockholders were duly impressed with the magnificence of its buildings and the grandiose ...

— A Beautiful Possibility • Edith Ferguson Black

... them according to their moral character. The Jews and the Persians went a step further, and conceived of a final general judgment, a final winding-up of human history, and a permanent reconstruction of the world on a basis largely moral, though tinged with local religious elements—a grandiose idea that has maintained itself up to the present time, embodying the conviction that the outcome of life depends on character, and that ethical retribution is the ...

— Introduction to the History of Religions - Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV • Crawford Howell Toy

... actions Henriette had foreseen the criticisms that would rise in my mind as soon as I saw the servile effects of a courtier's life upon him. Monsieur de Mortsauf, king in his own castle and surrounded by an historic halo, had, to my eyes, a certain grandiose dignity. I was therefore greatly astonished at the distance he placed between the duchess and himself by manners that were nothing less than obsequious. A slave has his pride and will only serve the greatest despots. I confess I was humiliated at the degradation of one before ...

— The Lily of the Valley • Honore de Balzac

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