Adjective: grandiose
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more grandiose |
| Superlative | most grandiose |
Sample Sentences
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Independence does not need to be a grandiose process of disconnection and severing ties. [2019 March 6, Nalini Mohabir, “Renaming the Cook Islands would be a vital step towards true independence”, in The Guardian:]
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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. [2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Didcot (1932)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 60:]
Adjectives inflected like grandiose
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From French grandiose, from Italian grandioso, from Latin grandis (“great, grand”) (English grand). Possibly from grand + -ose, though to be debated. Doublet of grandioso. See: French Adjectives '
grandiose', Italian Adjectives '
grandioso', Latin Adjectives '
grandis', English Adjectives '
grand'.