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  • 111monumentaux — ● monumental, monumentale, monumentaux adjectif Qui a les proportions imposantes d un monument : Statue monumentale. Qui a un caractère grandiose ou qui est remarquable par son importance : Œuvre monumentale. Familier. Qui est hors des normes… …

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  • 112cosmic — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. universal, galactic, heavenly; vast, grandiose; harmonious, orderly. See universe, order. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. vast, empyrean, grandiose; see astronomical 1 , infinite 1 , universal 1 . III… …

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  • 113grand — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. large, impressive, magnificent, stately, majestic; pretentious, ostentatious; elegant, lofty. See greatness, ostentation, repute. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Sumptuous] Syn. rich, splendid,… …

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  • 114pompous — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. self important, ostentatious; high flown, bombastic, stilted; haughty, vain, grandiose, puffed up, arrogant, stuffy, snooty, stuffed shirt (inf.). See boasting.Ant., humble, unassuming. II (Roget s… …

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  • 115bombastic — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. pompous, declamatory, grandiloquent, orotund, lofty, inflated, grandiose, rhetorical, high sounding, high flown, fustian, flowery, florid, pretentious, ostentatious, overwrought, overblown, magniloquent, euphuistic,… …

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  • 116grandiosity — (n.) 1814, from Fr. grandiose (see GRANDIOSE (Cf. grandiose)) + ITY (Cf. ity). The author now and then makes a word for his own use, as complicate, for complicated; and, still less fortunately grandiosity (p. 343). [review of Joseph Forsyth s… …

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  • 117gran´di|ose|ly — gran|di|ose «GRAN dee ohs», adjective. 1. grand in an imposing or impressive way; magnificent: »Always the Americans had been fond of looking ahead to a grandiose future (Atlantic). SYNONYM(S): stately. 2. grand in a showy or pompous way; not… …

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  • 118gran|di|ose — «GRAN dee ohs», adjective. 1. grand in an imposing or impressive way; magnificent: »Always the Americans had been fond of looking ahead to a grandiose future (Atlantic). SYNONYM(S): stately. 2. grand in a showy or pompous way; not really… …

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