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Magniloquent

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Using pompous speech; speaking with deliberately long or esoteric words.

    "There is no doubt that the ordinary reader would enjoy, and he certainly would profit much by, a revival of the classic work—if only he did not fall asleep over its magniloquent but perissological otiosity."

Adjective
  1. 1
    lofty in style wordnet

Etymology

From post-Classical Latin magniloquens (“talkative, verbose”).

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