altiloquentとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

altiloquent (comparative more altiloquent, superlative most altiloquent)

1. Pompous, or pretentious in speech
   • 1976, John Gardner, Jason and Medeia, Ballantine Books

     [T]hey listened, dazzle-eyed- secretly making lists- to grandly romantic trash: bad poetry, stupid theology- altiloquent designs in the empty air.

   • 1921, Holman Day, All Wool Morrison, Kessinger Publishing

     He remembered that the politeness seemed too elaborate, too florid, altiloquent to the extent of insincerity.