magniloquent

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   formal and usually disapproving: using lofty, grandiose, or pompous language

   The critic dismissed the speech as magniloquent and empty.

From Latin magniloquus or magniloquens, 'speaking grandly,' combining magnus, 'great,' with loqui, 'to speak.' The English adjective commonly carries a critical suggestion that the elevated style exceeds the substance.

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