Grandiose

Definition: Grandiose

Grandiose

Adjective

1. Impressive because of unnecessary largeness or grandeur; used to show disapproval.

2. Affectedly genteel.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "grandiose" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1832. (references)

Etymology: Grandiose \Gran"di*ose"\, adjective. [French expression grandiose, Italian grandioso. See Grand.]. (references)

Synonyms: Grandiose

Ornament

Adjective: ornament; Verb: beautified; ornate, florid, rich, flowery; euphuistic, euphemistic; sonorous; high-sounding, big-sounding; inflated, swelling, tumid; turgid, turgescent; pedantic, pompous, stilted; orotund; high flown, high flowing; sententious, rhetorical, declamatory; grandiose; grandiloquent, magniloquent, altiloquent; sesquipedal, sesquipedalian; Johnsonian, mouthy; bombastic; fustian; frothy, flashy, flaming.

Crosswords: Grandiose

French (grand, grandeur, grandiose, magnificent, palatial, superb).

Books

• GAS : Grandiose ambitieux silencieux (reference)

• Grandiose Schemes (reference)

• Le grandiose et le sacré (reference)

• Psyche and Text: The Sublime and the Grandiose in Literature, Psychopathology, and Culture (Suny Series in Psychoanalysis and Culture) (reference)

• Psychotherapy and the Grandiose Patient (reference)

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Music

• Mad Grandiose Bloodfiends (reference)

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Consumer Goods

• Ottomanelli's Grandiose Barbecue Assortment (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

madhështor (brilliant, dignified, distinguished, exalted, gorgeous, imperial, imposing, impressive, kingly, lordly, luxurious, magnificent, majestic, monumental, olympian, palatial, princely, proud, royal, spectacular, splendid, stately, sublime, superb), i madhërishëm (magnificent, majestic), i fryrë (assuming, bloated, bombastic, bulging, bumptious, cock-a-hoop, conceited, extravagant, flatulent, fustian, grandiloquent, high, highfaluting, high-sounding, hoity toity, inflated, mouthy, orotund, overblown, plethoric, pompous, puffed, puffed up, puffy, sounding, swollen, tumid, turgid, uppish, uppity, vainglorious). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فخم (deluxe, grand, imperial, imposing, lordly, luxurious, magnificent, majestic, noble, palatial, plushy, pompous, pontifical, regal, rich, royal, splendid, stately, substantial, sumptuous, superb), ‏متسم بالمبالغة, ‏مبال. (various references)

Bulgarian 

грандиозен (apocalyptic, awesome, colossal, grand, proud, spectacular, sublime), помпозен (pompous, turgid). (various references)

Chinese 

宏伟. (various references)

Czech

grandiózní (epic, grand, imposing). (various references)

Dutch

overweldigend (grand, magnificent, superb), groots (grand, magnificent, superb), grandioos (grand, magnificent, superb). (various references)

Esperanto

grandioza (grand, magnificent, superb). (various references)

Farsi 

پراب وتاب (Ornate, Rotund), عالی نما, بلند (Aloud, Eminent, High, Lofty, Skyscraper, Sonorous, Tall, Upland, Vociferous, Willowy), بزرگ نما. (various references)

Finnish

suurisuuntainen (on the grand level, outlined on a large scale), suurellinen (grand). (various references)

French

grandiose (grand, grandeur). (various references)

German

großartig (admirable, brillant, brilliantly, excellent, genial, gorgeous, gorgeously, grand, grandiosely, grandly, great, greatly, immense, magnificent, magnificently, marvelous, marvelously, prodigious, splendid, superb, superbly, superior, terrific, wonderful), grandios (fantastic, grand, magnificent, majestic, superb, terrific). (various references)

Greek 

μεγαλιώδης, μεγαλειώδησ (grand), πομπώδησ (bombastic, consequential, flatus, grandiloquence, highfaluting, magniloquent, pompous, splurge, stilted, turgid), επιβλητικόσ (commanding, imperial, imposing, impressive, orotund). (various references)

Hebrew 

מפואר (glorious, grand, imposing, luxurious, magnificent, palatial, splendid, stately, sumptuous), מרשים (effective, impressive, stately, striking). (various references)

Hungarian

grandiózus, lenyűgöző (awe-inspiring, compelling, enthralling, impressive), hatalmas (ample, enormous, giant, gigantean, gigantesque, gigantic, herculean, huge, mighty, monumental, overpowering, powerful, smashing, Titanic, vast), fenséges (awe inspiring, kingly, lofty, majestic, majestical, pompous, royal, sublime, superb), óriási (capital, colossal, elephantine, enormous, gargantuan, giant, giantlike, gigantean, gigantesque, gigantic, helluva, huge, immeasurable, immense, jumbo, mammoth, monster, monstrous, mountainous, prodigious, smashing, smashing victory, stupendous, terrific, tremendous, vast, vasty, way-out, whacking, whopping). (various references)

Italian

grandioso (excellent, grand, great, magnificent, stately, tremendous, wonderful). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

大袈裟 (exaggerated), 大�'さ (exaggerated). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おお�'さ (exaggerated). (various references)

Korean 

웅장한. (various references)

Manx

ard-voyrnagh (gallant, gaudy, swollen-headed). (various references)

Pig Latin

andiosegray.(various references)

Portuguese

grandioso (gorgeous, grand, great, imposing, lofty, magnificent, majestic, monumental, palace, palatial, spectacular, splendid, sublime, vast), pomposo (budge, consequential, formal, gallant, garish, lofty, measured, orotund, ostentatious, pompous, puffed-up, showy, solemn, sounding, stately, stiff, tumid), majestoso (august, imposing, kingly, leonine, lofty, maestoso, majestic, olympian, queenly, royal, solemn, stately), magn�fico, imponente (gallant, grand, imposing, lofty, majestic, monumental, noble, pompous, stately). (various references)

Romanian

grandios (grand, imposing, mighty, noble, stately, sublime), superb (first rate, noble, splendid, stately, superb, superbly, unearthly), preţios (affected, bombastic, costly, dear, euphuistic, flatulent, golden, mincing, namby-pamby, niminy-piminy, ornate, precious, valuable, valued), mare (acred, adult, ample, big, boundless, brine, broad, bulky, deep, dense, enormous, famous, fat, flux, foam, gorgeous, grand, great, gross, hard, heavy, high, howling, huge, hulking, illustrious, immense, important, keen, king size, large, large scale, long, loose, major, man-sized, massy, mighty, open, pond, ponderous, pretty, renowned, rich, roomy, sea, sensible, severe, spacious, stupendous, tall, thick, thundering, vast, violent, voluminous, wide), magnific (grand, magnificent, magnificently, noble, royal, splendid), mãreţ (aerial, August, brilliant, grand, kingly, loftily, lofty, magnificent, magnificently, majestic, mighty, palatial, princely, proud, splendid, stately, sumptuous, unearthly), impunãtor (commanding, dignified, imposing, portly, spectacular, stately, tremendous), impozant (commanding, gallant, goodly, imposing, superb, towering), bombastic (baggy, bombastic, bombastically, declamatory, emphatic, exaggerative, flamboyant, grandiloquent, high-blown, highfalutin, highfaluting, high-flown, inflated, magniloquent, mouthy, plethoric, puffy, rotund, stilted, turgid). (various references)

Russian 

грандиозный (colossal, sublime). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

grandiozan, veličanstven (baronial, breathtaking, grand, magnificent, majestic, marvellous, marvelous, noble, palatial, stately, statuesque). (various references)

Spanish

grandioso (grand, lofty). (various references)

Swedish

grandios (epic), storslagen (awe inspiring, awesome, epic, grand, heavy, monumental, munificencent, munificent, olympian). (various references)

Turkish

göz alıcı (attractive, eye-catching, flamboyant, glamorous, glittering, jazzy, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, screaming, spectacular, splendiferous, staring, striking), görkemli (brave, bright, brilliant, effulgent, fulgent, gallant, gorgeous, imperial, magnificent, majestic, olympian, palatial, pompous, proud, puffy, queenlike, queenly, refulgent, splendid, stately, sublime, sumptuous), tantanalı (orotund, pompous, puffy, rotund, showy, sonorous, sounding), muazzam (colossal, egregious, enormous, fab, great, howling, huge, immense, magnific, magnifical, mighty, puissant, spanking, stupendous, tremendous, whacking), heybetli (ample, baronial, dreadfull, formidable, imposing, majestic, monumental, redoubtable, solemn, stately, tremendous). (various references)

Ukrainian

грандіозний (andean, colossal, cosmic, grand), величезний (astronomic, astronomical, babylonian, banging, decuman, dimensionless, enormous, flagrant, formidable, giantlike, great, handsome, huge, immense, mighty, monstrous, mountainous, overwhelming, prodigious, slapping, swingeing, thumping, thundering, tremendous, vasty, walloping, whacking, whaling), помпезний (pompous, taffeta, tawdry). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vĩ đại (magnific, magnifical, mighty, titanesque, titanic), phô trương (exhibitory, flauntingly, flaunty, ostentatious, showy, swanky), lớn lao (considerably, prodigious, substantively), hùng vĩ (imposing, mighty, proudly, sublime), đại quy mô long trọng. (various references)

Welsh

mawreddog (august, grand, majestic). (various references)

grandis. (various references)

grandiose. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "grandiose": grandiosely, grandioseness, grandiosenesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Grandiose" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gardiole, grandeos, Grandiere, grandio, grandios, grandioue, grandiouse, grandioze, grandis, grandoise, grandoisee, Grandos, Gronivoe, Grundvoss, rwandaise. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: organdies, organised.

-1 letter: agonised, aneroids, deraigns, diagnose, gradines, negroids, organdie, organise, readings.

-2 letters: adoring, agonies, agonise, aneroid, dangers, darings, deraign, dineros, dingers, dingoes, dogears, dragons, earings, engirds, erasing, erasion, eringos, eroding, gainers, ganders, ganoids, gardens, gradine, gradins, grained, groaned, groined, ignored, ignores, indorse, inroads, negroid, onagers, oranges, ordains, ordines, origans, randies, reading, reagins, redoing, regains.

+1 letter: designator, garrisoned, girandoles, gormandise.

+2 letters: androgynies, denigrators, derogations, designators, designatory, disorganize, dragonflies, gormandised, gormandises, gormandizes, gourmandise, grandiosely.

+3 letters: androgenesis, degradations, denigrations, digressional, disorganized, disorganizes, fingerboards, gormandizers, gourmandises, gourmandizes, jeopardising, outspreading, ropedancings.

+4 letters: boardinghouse, deflagrations, degenerations, degringolades, demonstrating, deregulations, desegregation, deuteragonist, digressionary, disintegrator, eavesdropping, foreshadowing, glucuronidase, grandioseness, grandiosities, granodiorites, nondecreasing, overshadowing, overspreading, propagandizes, serodiagnoses, serodiagnosis, skateboarding, undercoatings, undiscouraged.