grandiloquent
gran·di·lo·quent
adjective
1.
- “he engages in so much tall talk, one never really realizes what he is saying”
2.
- “a grandiloquent and boastful manner”
- “overblown oratory”
- “a pompous speech”
- “pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey” Newsweek
Origin
From Middle French grandiloquent, from Latin grandiloquus, from grandis (“great, full”) + loquēns, present participle of loquor (“to speak”). Compare eloquent.
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