grandioseadj.

Brit.

/ˈɡrandɪəʊs/,

/ˈɡrandɪəʊz/, U.S.

/ˈɡrændiˌoʊs/,

/ˌɡrændiˈoʊs/

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French grandiose.

Etymology: < French grandiose that is impressive or imposing on account of its grandeur (1798; compare earlier grandiosité grandiosity n.) < Italian grandioso (1573; also in sense ‘ostentatious’) < Spanish grandioso (15th cent.; also in sense ‘ostentatious, overblown’) < grandía (13th cent.; < grande grand adj. + -ía -y suffix³) + -oso -ose suffix¹. Compare Portuguese grandioso (15th cent.). Compare earlier grandioso adj., grandiosity n.

1. Impressive or imposing on account of grandeur or extravagance of appearance, manner, design, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > splendour > [adjective] > magnificent

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1818 Atheneum: Spirit of Eng. Mags. 14 Feb. 388/2 Though M. David may have lost some portion of his taste for the antique and the grandiose of form, he has certainly improved in other particulars.

1855 R. Browning In a Balcony 132 Things painted by a Rubens..All better, all more grandiose than the life.

1874 H. R. Reynolds John the Baptist viii. 506 Those who saw the grandiose form of the Baptist.

1927 C. Gray in H. J. Foss Heritage of Music I. 185 We find throughout almost all the work of Brahms..the perpetual striving after the ideal of a grandiose, neo-classic art.

1952 W. Plomer Museum Pieces xxii. 185 The houses were grandiose, seven-storied, mid-Victorian follies, with cavernous basements, florid porticoes, and first-floor drawing-rooms with huge windows.

1987 J. Franklin Molecules of Mind x. 125 His mind worked incessantly, churning out creative and grandiose ideas.

2014 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 5 June 31/1 Worshiping the mythic founder of the Chinese people, the Yellow Emperor, at a grandiose monument on the Yellow River.

2. Characterized by the affectation of grandeur or stateliness, by pretentiousness or pomposity, or by absurd or delusional exaggeration.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adjective] > lofty or grandiloquent

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1840 W. M. Thackeray Paris Sketch Bk. I. 239 Our author speaks of the Emperor's advent in the following grandiose way...These big phrases,..when put together, amount, like certain other combinations of round figures, to exactly o.

1854 T. De Quincey Spanish Mil. Nun xii, in Select. Grave & Gay III. 34 Mr. Urquiza entered first, with a strut more than usually grandiose.

1892 D. H. Tuke Dict. Psychol. Med. I. 618/2 Delusions of a grandiose character.

1927 Amer. Mercury Nov. 274/1 Tom certainly cannot be dismissed. Grandiose, sentimental, a licker-up of applause, a player to the grandstand.

1948 A. J. P. Taylor Habsburg Monarchy i. 12 Austrian Baroque civilisation..was grandiose, full of superficial life, yet sterile within.

1988 J. Bradshaw Healing Shame that Binds You ii. v. 131 Such a consciousness keeps tabs on our tendency to become grandiose and shameless.

2012 Guardian (Nexis) 20 Oct. (Review section) 8 It's easy to snigger at the grandiose delusions of Esperantists and other similarly dreamy minorities.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	grandiose
释义	grandioseadj. Brit. /ˈɡrandɪəʊs/, /ˈɡrandɪəʊz/, U.S. /ˈɡrændiˌoʊs/, /ˌɡrændiˈoʊs/ Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French grandiose. Etymology: < French grandiose that is impressive or imposing on account of its grandeur (1798; compare earlier grandiosité grandiosity n.) < Italian grandioso (1573; also in sense ‘ostentatious’) < Spanish grandioso (15th cent.; also in sense ‘ostentatious, overblown’) < grandía (13th cent.; < grande grand adj. + -ía -y suffix³) + -oso -ose suffix¹. Compare Portuguese grandioso (15th cent.). Compare earlier grandioso adj., grandiosity n. 1. Impressive or imposing on account of grandeur or extravagance of appearance, manner, design, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > splendour > [adjective] > magnificent lordlylOE richc1275 prouda1300 noblec1300 gloriousc1315 reala1325 rialc1330 stouta1350 solemnc1386 royalc1400 pompousc1425 statelyc1425 lordlike1488 magnific1490 of state1498 magnificenta1530 pompatic1535 magnificala1538 princely1539 gorgeous?1542 regal1561 superbious?1566 surly1566 splendent1567 heroical1577 superbous1581 sumptuous1594 pompatical1610 pompal1616 fastidious1638 grand1673 splendid1685 grandific1727 grandiose1818 splendiferous1827 splendacious1843 magnolious1863 1818 Atheneum: Spirit of Eng. Mags. 14 Feb. 388/2 Though M. David may have lost some portion of his taste for the antique and the grandiose of form, he has certainly improved in other particulars. 1855 R. Browning In a Balcony 132 Things painted by a Rubens..All better, all more grandiose than the life. 1874 H. R. Reynolds John the Baptist viii. 506 Those who saw the grandiose form of the Baptist. 1927 C. Gray in H. J. Foss Heritage of Music I. 185 We find throughout almost all the work of Brahms..the perpetual striving after the ideal of a grandiose, neo-classic art. 1952 W. Plomer Museum Pieces xxii. 185 The houses were grandiose, seven-storied, mid-Victorian follies, with cavernous basements, florid porticoes, and first-floor drawing-rooms with huge windows. 1987 J. Franklin Molecules of Mind x. 125 His mind worked incessantly, churning out creative and grandiose ideas. 2014 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 5 June 31/1 Worshiping the mythic founder of the Chinese people, the Yellow Emperor, at a grandiose monument on the Yellow River. 2. Characterized by the affectation of grandeur or stateliness, by pretentiousness or pomposity, or by absurd or delusional exaggeration. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adjective] > lofty or grandiloquent magnificenta1460 statelya1525 magnifical1533 tragical1533 lofty1565 tragic1566 sublime1586 over-high1587 magnific1589 heroic1590 buskina1593 grandiloquous1593 full-mouthed1594 high-pitched1594 buskined1595 full-mouth1595 high-borne1596 altisonant1612 Roman1619 high-sounding1624 transcendent1631 magniloquent1640 loud1651 altiloquent1656 grandiloquent1656 largiloquent1656 altisonous1661 tall1670 elevate1673 grandisonous1674 sounding1683 exalted1684 grandisonant1684 grandific1727 magniloquous1727 orotund1799 superb1825 spread eagle1839 grandiose1840 magnisonanta1843 togated1868 elevated1875 mandarin1959 1840 W. M. Thackeray Paris Sketch Bk. I. 239 Our author speaks of the Emperor's advent in the following grandiose way...These big phrases,..when put together, amount, like certain other combinations of round figures, to exactly o. 1854 T. De Quincey Spanish Mil. Nun xii, in Select. Grave & Gay III. 34 Mr. Urquiza entered first, with a strut more than usually grandiose. 1892 D. H. Tuke Dict. Psychol. Med. I. 618/2 Delusions of a grandiose character. 1927 Amer. Mercury Nov. 274/1 Tom certainly cannot be dismissed. Grandiose, sentimental, a licker-up of applause, a player to the grandstand. 1948 A. J. P. Taylor Habsburg Monarchy i. 12 Austrian Baroque civilisation..was grandiose, full of superficial life, yet sterile within. 1988 J. Bradshaw Healing Shame that Binds You ii. v. 131 Such a consciousness keeps tabs on our tendency to become grandiose and shameless. 2012 Guardian (Nexis) 20 Oct. (Review section) 8 It's easy to snigger at the grandiose delusions of Esperantists and other similarly dreamy minorities. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1818
随便看	to exonerate oneself to expand one's horizon to expand one's horizons to expect for to expect the extremity to expede letters to expel forth to expend with oneself to experience religion to expiate oneself to expire one's last to explain away to explain oneself away to explode on the scene to explode on to the scene to expose to view to expound to fantasy with oneself to farce in to farce together to fardel up to fare a voyage to fare a way to fare about to fare astray