| 1. | affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words. |
| 2. | more complicated or elaborate than necessary; overblown: a grandiose scheme. |
| 3. | grand in an imposing or impressive way. |
| 4. | Psychiatry. having an exaggerated belief in one's importance, sometimes reaching delusional proportions, and occurring as a common symptom of mental illnesses, as manic disorder. |
gran·di·ose (grān'dē-ōs', grān'dē-ōs') adj.
[French, from Italian grandioso, from grande, great, from Latin grandis.] gran'di·ose'ly adv., gran'di·os'i·ty (-ŏs'ĭ-tē), gran'di·ose'ness n. |