adjective🔗ShareGrandiloquent, pompeux, emphatique(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. "Le discours du professeur était si grandiloquent, rempli de mots obscurs et de phrases complexes, que les étudiants ont eu du mal à comprendre son point principal.languagewritingstylewordliteraturecommunicationChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading