| 单词 | grandiose |
| 释义 | grandiose, a.|ˈgrændɪəʊs|
[a. F. grandiose, ad. It. grandioso (whence also Sp., Pg. grandioso), f. L. grandi-s (It., Sp., Pg. grande) great (see grand a.); for the suffix see -ose, -ous.]
1. Producing an effect or impression of grandeur or greatness; characterized by largeness of plan or nobility of design.
1843Emerson Misc. Papers, Carlyle Wks. (Bohn) III. 317 This grandiose character pervades his wit and his imagination. 1850J. Leitch tr. C. O. Müller's Anc. Art §290 (ed. 2) 322 Amphitheatres..in the simple and grandiose taste of the Hellenic architects. 1855Browning In a Balcony 132 Things painted by a Rubens..All better, all more grandiose than the life. 1874H. R. Reynolds John Bapt. viii. 506 Those who saw the grandiose form of the Baptist. 1897Dowden Fr. Lit. iv. iii. 303 In Les Ruines..he recalls the past like ‘an Arab Ossian’, monotonous and grandiose.
2. Of speech, style, deportment, etc. Characterized by formal stateliness; often in disparaging sense: Aiming at an effect of grandeur, pompous.
1840Thackeray Paris Sk.-bk., Napoleon (1869) 118 Our author speaks of the Emperor's advent in the following grandiose way. 1847De Quincey Sp. Mil. Nun xii. Wks. 1862 III. 34 Mr. Urquiza entered first, with a strut more than usually grandiose. 1850W. Irving Goldsmith xii. 150 He carried into the bookselling craft somewhat of the grandiose manner of the stage. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. i. xvi, What is it that we call it in our grandiose speeches? 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. v. xxxix. 363 His grandiose air was making Mab feel herself a ridiculous toy to match the cottage piano. 1892A. Birrell Res Judicatæ ii. 58 Gibbon..Milton..as the one is our grandest author, so the other is our most grandiose. |
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