pompous, excessively eloquent (of speech or writing)
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Grandiloquent Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(a.)
Speaking in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutSpeaking in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic.
grandiloquent
\gran*dil"o*quent\ (?), a. [l. grandis grand + logui to speak.] speaking in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic.
Speaking in or characterized by a pompous or bombastic style.
Adjective
1. lofty in style; "he engages in so much tall talk, one never really realizes what he is saying"
(synonym) magniloquent, tall
(similar) rhetorical
2. puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
(synonym) overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous
(similar) pretentious
Grandiloquent Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Verbosity (also called wordiness, prolixity and garrulousness) in language refers to speech or writing which is deemed to use an excess of words. Adjectival forms are verbose, wordy, prolix and garrulous. An example are the expressions "in the vicinity of" (which can be replaced with "near") and "in order to" (which can be replaced with "to").
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