grandiose
impressive or ambitious in scale, often excessively so
Word origin: From Italian grandioso, from Latin grandis, grand.
Grandiose in a sentence
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His grandiose plan to rebuild the entire waterfront never advanced beyond a stack of drawings.
His grandiose scheme to terraform the desert collapsed once the cost estimates arrived.
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The historian argued that the empire's collapse was not blank but the predictable outcome of decades of fiscal mismanagement that contemporaries had simply refused to acknowledge.
Using “grandiose” well
Grandiose means impressive or ambitious in scale, often to an absurd or pretentious degree. Unlike grandiloquent, which is about language, grandiose is about the size or ambition of plans and conceptions.
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in a way that yields profit or useful result
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one who denies, opposes, or contradicts
bold, brazen impudence or nerve
causing irritation or resentment; vexing
producing a sudden, startling burst of energy or excitement
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