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Ornamental vs Grandiloquent - What's the difference?

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Ornamental is a related term of grandiloquent.


As adjectives the difference between ornamental and grandiloquent

is that ornamental is serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing while grandiloquent is given to using language in a showy way by using an excessive amount of difficult words to impress others; bombastic; turgid.

As a noun ornamental

is an ornamental plant.

ornamental

English

(wikipedia ornamental)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing.
    • Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles.

    Related terms

    * ornament * ornamentation * ornamentally

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An ornamental plant.

    • grandiloquent

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • given to using language in a showy way by using an excessive amount of difficult words to impress others; bombastic; turgid
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    • Synonyms

    * (overly wordy or elaborate) bombastic, extravagant, flowery, ostentatious, pretentious, sesquipedalian

    Related terms

    * grandiloquacity * grandiloquence * grandiloquism * grandiloquous * grandiloquoy * magniloquent English autological terms ----