grandiloquent


grandiloquent (http://definr.com/grandiloquent)

     adj 1: lofty in style; "he engages in so much tall talk, one never
            really realizes what he is saying" [syn: magniloquent,
             tall]
     2: puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful
        manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech";
        "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"-
        Newsweek [syn: overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous]