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発音

• IPA: /ɡɹæn.diˈəʊs/, /ˈɡɹæn.di.əʊs/
• 韻: -əʊs

形容詞

grandiose (comparative more grandiose, superlative most grandiose)

1. Large and impressive, in size, scope or extent.
   • 2019 March 6, Nalini Mohabir, “Renaming the Cook Islands would be a vital step towards true independence”, in The Guardian‎:

     Independence does not need to be a grandiose process of disconnection and severing ties.

2. Pompous or pretentious.
   • 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Didcot (1932)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 60:

     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.

3. Magnificent or spectacular.

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Further reading

• “grandiose”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “grandiose”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “grandiose”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• angroside, diagnoser, dragonise, organdies, organised