grandiose

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Large and impressive, in size, scope or extent.

   Independence does not need to be a grandiose process of disconnection and severing ties.

2. 2
   adj

   Pompous or pretentious.

   There is a station here, of course, opened as Didcot in June 1844 and renamed as the more grandiose-sounding Didcot Parkway in July 1985.

From French grandiose, from Italian grandioso, from Latin grandis (“great, grand”) (English grand). Possibly from grand + -ose, though to be debated. Doublet of grandioso.

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