grand1ose

[Fr., from grand =great; Ital. grandioso.] 1. Grand, sublime, imposing, magnificent; full of grandeur. "Hardly anything could seem more grandiose."-G. Eliot : Romola , ch. xxi. 2. Pompous, bombastic; vulgarly showy or grand; grandiloquent. "Worth more than the grandiose memoirs of immortal statesmen." - Forster: Life and Times of Goldsmith, bk. iii., ch. v., p. 301.