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grandioseness

/gran-dee-ohs, gran-dee-ohs/US // ˈgræn diˌoʊs, ˌgræn diˈoʊs //UK // (ˈɡrændɪˌəʊs) //

大气,宏伟,大气的,宏伟壮观

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
    • : more complicated or elaborate than necessary; overblown: a grandiose scheme.
    • : grand in an imposing or impressive way.
    • : Psychiatry. having an exaggerated belief in one's importance, sometimes reaching delusional proportions, and occurring as a common symptom of mental illnesses, as manic disorder.

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Examples

  • Saints running back Alvin Kamara tests positive for coronavirus, could miss first playoff gamePlanning is proceeding for a Super Bowl that will be conducted in far less grandiose fashion than those in previous years.

  • At times, Musk has given grandiose presentations of the rocket and his plans to one day build a city on Mars.

  • Data show their grandiose plans do not boost a company’s performance.

  • Rather than compete with grandiose ambitions, their websites reference each other and connect voters to secretaries of state and election registrars around the nation.

  • For what is clear throughout this research is that it is substance that counts the most, not grandiose plans or powerful rhetoric.

  • I suspect he chose the Dred Scott comparison precisely because of its overblown, grandiose nature.

  • Months after his arrest, he was online acting out a grandiose identity.

  • Talking about the watch as a new kind of communication might seem grandiose, but it could actually be true.

  • It did not feature outsized personalities or grandiose schemes.

  • Songs about grandiose generalities are well and good; that's what a lot of pop music consists of.

  • Was it for some grandiose, impossible chimera, that he had taken men from quiet useful lives and the simple round of kindliness?

  • Within sixty seconds he sat in state, wearing a grandiose yellow dressing-gown.

  • She really had the heroical aspect in a grandiose-grotesque, fitted to some lines of Ariosto.

  • The llano had appeared to them in its grandiose majesty, and a cry of delight had burst from breasts so long oppressed by fear.

  • It has been called fairylike, a caprice of grandiose ideas, and enchanted, and these words describe it well enough.