grandiose
English edit
Etymology edit
From French grandiose, from Italian grandioso, from Latin grandis (“great, grand”) (English grand). Possibly from grand + -ose, though to be debated. Doublet of grandioso.
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Adjective edit
grandiose (comparative more grandiose, superlative most grandiose)
- Large and impressive, in size, scope or extent.
- 2019 March 6, Nalini Mohabir, “Renaming the Cook Islands would be a vital step towards true independence”, in The Guardian[1]:
- Independence does not need to be a grandiose process of disconnection and severing ties.
- Pompous or pretentious.
- 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Didcot (1932)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 60:
- There is a station here, of course, opened as Didcot in June 1844 and renamed as the more grandiose-sounding Didcot Parkway in July 1985.
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large and impressive, in size, scope or extent
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pompous or pretentious
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Further reading edit
- “grandiose”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “grandiose”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “grandiose”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian grandioso.
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grandiose (plural grandioses)
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Further reading edit
- “grandiose”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German edit
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grandiose
- inflection of grandios:
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grandiose f pl
Norwegian Bokmål edit
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grandiose
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
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grandiose