adjective
- speaking or expressed in a lofty or grandiose style; pompous; bombastic; boastful.
adjective
- (of speech) lofty in style; grandiloquent
n.1620s, from Latin magniloquentia “elevated language, lofty style;” see magniloquent + -ence. adj.1650s, a back-formation from magniloquence, or else from Latin magniloquentia “lofty style of language,” from magniloquus “pompous in talk, vaunting, boastful,” from comb. form of magnus “great” (see magnate) + -loquus “speaking,” from loqui “to speak” (see locution).