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Synonyms:
- forced, noble, mammoth, study at grand, baggy, big, colossal, opulent, unreasonable, affected, baroque, ample, huge, abstract, comprehensive, gigantic, garish, absurd, pretentious, towering, formal, soaring, stately, great, campy, flamboyant, glorious, highfaluting, avant-garde, splashy, shameless, egotistic, childish, pompous, extensive, flashy, self-important, elephantine, artsy-craftsy, giant, immense, irrational, gaudy, extreme, massive, voluminous, princely, proud, magnific, aesthetic, majestic, prodigious, roomy, grand, sizable, cavernous, ridiculous, puffed-up, dramatic, grandiloquent, humongous, capacious, enormous, dashing, highfalutin, gargantuan, ostentatious, good, ornate, large, awesome, artistic, showy, snazzy, blatant, sensational, irresponsible, jaunty, lofty, expansive, gallant, heroic, flagrant, accessible, plain, theatrical, a, magnificent, copious, epic, imposing, camp, flaunting, hysterical, royal, august, splendid, puffy, hifalutin, hoity-toity, boastful, monumental, stilted, sublime, Homeric, impressive, bulky, histrionic, rakish, generous, imperial, superb, vain, spacious, regal, snippy, la-di-da, high-minded, fussy, exhibitionistic, vast, wrong, flourishing, tremendous, lordly, baronial, perverse
Examples:
- - These and other grandiose designs were confided only to Talleyrand and other intimate counsellors. - "The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)", John Holland Rose
- - In grandiose simplicity this surpasses Albertinelli's Visitation, in soft gradations and rich mellowness of colour it equals Fra Bartolommeo at his best, for tenderness in the attitude of the child it is quite Raphaelesque. - "Fra Bartolommeo", Leader Scott (Re-Edited By Horace Shipp And Flora Kendrick)
- - It is a suggestion, in a small way, of the more grandiose cathedral at Mayence, but it is by no means so picturesquely situated. - "The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine", Francis Miltoun
Antonyms:
- homely, timid, unprepossessing, unassertive, down-to-earth, meretricious, mousy, unimpressive, trifling, meek, overmodest, lowly, diffident, abject, unpretentious, ordinary, quiet, measly, shy, retiring, petty, modest, unheroic, unimposing, shabby, second-rate, reserved, insignificant, run-of-the-mill, humble, bashful, average, demure, common, paltry, trivial, puny, unassuming, passive, mean, mediocre, sordid
