OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 28336

grandiose

/ɡɹæn.diˈəʊs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
grandioso
Large and impressive, in size, scope or extent.
Independence does not need to be a grandiose process of disconnection and severing ties.
grandioso
Pompous or pretentious.
There is a station here, of course, opened as Didcot in June 1844 and renamed as the more grandiose-sounding Didcot Parkway in July 1985.