(disapproving) seeming very impressive but too large, complicated, expensive, etc. to be practical or possible:
The grandiose scheme for a journey across the desert came to nothing. * a grandiose opera house * He could no longer live the grandiose lifestyle to which he had become accustomed.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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This entry for grandiose is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is grandiose a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, grandiose is tagged as adjective.
Does grandiose appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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