Grandiose

a.	1.	Impressive or elevating in effect; imposing; splendid; striking; - in a good sense. The tone of the parts was to be perpetually kept down in order not to impair the grandiose effect of the whole. - M. Arnold. The grandiose red tulips which grow wild. - C. Kingsley.
	2.	Characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor; flaunting; turgid; bombastic; - in a bad sense; as, a grandiose style.

Adj.	1.	grandiose - impressive because of unnecessary largeness or grandeur; used to show disapproval
	2.	grandiose - affectedly genteel Synonyms: hifalutin, highfalutin, highfaluting, hoity-toity, la-di-da

Babylonian, Corinthian, Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, ambitious, august, awe-inspiring, awful, barbaric, bedizened, big-sounding, bombastic, convoluted, cosmic, declamatory, deluxe, elaborate, elegant, elevated, euphuistic, extravagant, fancy, fine, flamboyant, flaming, flash, flashy, flaunting, florid, fulsome, fustian, garish, gaudy, glorious, grandiloquent, grandisonant, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, highfalutin, histrionic, impressive, inflated, inkhorn, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lordly, lurid, luxurious, magniloquent, majestic, melodramatic, meretricious, monumental, orotund, ostentatious, overambitious, overdone, overelaborate, overinvolved, overwhelming, overwrought, palatial, pedantic, plush, posh, pretentious, princely, proud, rhetorical, ritzy, royal, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, showy, sonorous, splendacious, splendid, splendiferous, stilted, sumptuous, superb, superfancy, superfine, swank, swanky, swell, tall, tortuous, unfathomable, utopian, vast, visionary

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