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GRANDILOQUENTLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does grandiloquently mean?
• GRANDILOQUENTLY (adverb)
The adverb GRANDILOQUENTLY has 1 sense:
1. in a rhetorically grandiloquent manner
Familiarity information: GRANDILOQUENTLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a rhetorically grandiloquent manner
Synonyms:
grandiloquently; magniloquently
Context example:
the orator spoke magniloquently
Pertainym:
grandiloquent (lofty in style)
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