ISEE/SSAT Vocabulary BuilderWordsGgrandiose
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grandiose
Meaning: unrealistically ambitious or exaggeratedly impressive
grandiose in a sentence
How grandiose is used in real sentences:
The mayor's grandiose plan included towers the small town could never afford.
The critic dismissed the film's grandiose speeches as hollow displays of importance.
“His grandiose plan had been to place dozens of “lost masterpieces” in major collections, thereby rewriting art history around his inventions.”
— from the passage The Counterfeit Lesson
Synonyms for grandiose
Other words for grandiose — pretentious, pompous and ostentatious — carry the same meaning.
- pretentious
- pompous
- ostentatious
Antonyms of grandiose
Words that mean the opposite of grandiose:
Where it comes from
From French grandiose, based on Italian grandioso, meaning 'grand.'
Memory hook
GRAND plus a showy ending: grandiose ideas are grand beyond reason.