| Main Entry: | grandiosity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | glory |
Synonyms: |
celebrity, dignity, distinction, eminence, exaltation, grandeur, grandness, greatness, honor, illustriousness, immortality, kudos, magnificence, majesty, nobility, praise, prestige, renown, reputation, splendor, sublimity, triumph |
| Main Entry: | grandiosity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pretentiousness |
Synonyms: |
affectation, big talk, charade, conceit, disguise, fake*, false front, front, grandioseness, hypocrisy, ostentation, phony, pomposity, pompousness, pretension, put-on, self-importance, show, showboat, showiness, showoff, snobbery, splash*, vainglory |
| Main Entry: | bravado |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boastfulness |
Synonyms: |
blowing, bluff, bluster, boasting, bombast, braggadocio, bragging, bullying, crowing, fancy talk, fanfaronade, fuming, gasconade, grandiosity, guts*, hot air, pomposity, pretension, raging, railing, rant, selfglorification, storming, swaggering, swelling, talk, tall talk |
Antonyms: |
cowardice, fear, fearfulness, modesty, restraint |
| Main Entry: | grandeur |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | great importance |
Synonyms: |
amplitude, augustness, beauty, breadth, brilliance, celebrity, circumstance, dignity, distinction, elevation, eminence, expansiveness, fame, fineness, glory, grandiosity, gravity, greatness, handsomeness, immensity, impressiveness, inclusiveness, loftiness, luxuriousness, magnificence, majesty, might, nobility, opulence, pomp, preeminence, richness, splendor, state, stateliness, sublimity, sumptuousness, superbity, sway, transcendency, vastness |
Antonyms: |
insignificance, unimportance |
| Main Entry: | pageantry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flashy display |
Synonyms: |
affectation, array, ceremonial, ceremony, extravagance, fanfare, flourish, formality, glitter, grandeur, grandiosity, magnificence, ostentation, pageant, panoply, parade, pomp, pomposity, show, spectacle, splash, splendor |
| Main Entry: | pomp |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pageantry, display |
Synonyms: |
affectation, array, ceremonial, ceremony, fanfare, flourish, formality, grandeur, grandiosity, magnificence, ostentation, pageant, panoply, parade, pomposity, ritual, shine, show, solemnity, splendor, state, vainglory |
Antonyms: |
dullness, plainness, simplicity |
| Main Entry: | magniloquence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pomposity |
Synonyms: |
boastful, bombast, eloquence, grandiloquence, grandiosity |
| Notes: | magniloquence refers to a language that is lofty and extravagant, whereas grandiloquence refers to a language that is pompous or bombastic |
| Main Entry: | bombast |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boasting |
Synonyms: |
altiloquence, balderdash, bluster, bombastry, braggadocio, cotton, exaggeration, fustian, gasconade, grandiloquence, grandiosity, magniloquence, pad, padded, pomposity, rage, rant, rave, rhapsody, rhetoric, rodomontade, stuff, stuffed, tumidity, turgidity, tympany |
Antonyms: |
plain speaking |
| Main Entry: | affectedness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | affectation |
Synonyms: |
air, grandiosity, insincerity, mannerism, pretense, pretension, pretentiousness |
| Main Entry: | grandiloquence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bombast |
Synonyms: |
boastful, claptrap, eloquence, fustian, grandiosity, magniloquence, orotundity, rant, turgidity |