grandiloquent

grandiloquent
    adj 1: lofty in style; "he engages in so much tall talk, one
           never really realizes what he is saying" [syn:
           {grandiloquent}, {magniloquent}, {tall}]
    2: puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner";
       "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific
       gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek [syn:
       {grandiloquent}, {overblown}, {pompous}, {pontifical},
       {portentous}]
    

Grandiloquent \Gran*dil"o*quent\, a. [L. grandis grand + logui
   to speak.]
   Speaking in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic.
   [1913 Webster]
    

92 Moby Thesaurus words for "grandiloquent":
      Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, aggrandized, amplified, aureate,
      ballyhooed, bedizened, big-sounding, bloated, bombastic,
      convoluted, declamatory, disproportionate, elevated, euphuistic,
      exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme,
      flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flatulent, flaunting, flowery, formal,
      fulsome, garish, gassy, gaudy, grandiose, grandisonant,
      high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, highfalutin,
      hyperbolic, inflated, inkhorn, inordinate, labyrinthine,
      lexiphanic, lofty, lurid, magnified, magniloquent, meretricious,
      orotund, ostentatious, overblown, overdone, overdrawn,
      overelaborate, overemphasized, overemphatic, overestimated,
      overgreat, overinvolved, overlarge, overpraised, oversold,
      overstated, overstressed, overwrought, pedantic, pompous,
      pontifical, pretentious, prodigal, profuse, puffed, rhetorical,
      self-important, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, showy,
      solemn, sonorous, stilted, stretched, stuffy, superlative, swollen,
      tall, tortuous, touted, tumid, turgid