impressive or magnificent in appearance or style, especially pretentiously so (外表,风格)过分华丽的;做作的 the court's grandiose facade. 法院过分华丽的外观。 ■conceived on a very grand or ambitious scale 构思宏大的 grandiose plans to reform the world. 改变世界的宏伟计划。
派生 grandiosely adverb grandiosity noun 语源
mid 19th cent.: from French, from Italian grandioso, from grande 'grand'