adjective🔗ShareGeschwollen, wortreich, hochtrabend(of a person, their language or writing) given to using language in a showy way by using an excessive amount of difficult words to impress others; bombastic; turgid"The professor's speech was so grandiloquent, filled with obscure words and complex sentences, that the students struggled to understand his main point. "Die Rede des Professors war so geschwollen, voller obskurer Wörter und komplexer Sätze, dass die Studenten Mühe hatten, seinen Hauptpunkt zu verstehen.languagewritingstylewordliteraturecommunicationChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading