Synonyms: overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous, grandiloquent
Definition: puffed up with vanity
Usage: a grandiloquent and boastful manner; overblown oratory; a pompous speech; pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey- Newsweek
Similar words: pretentious
Definition: making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction
Usage: a pretentious country house; a pretentious fraud; a pretentious scholarly edition
Synonyms: tall, grandiloquent, magniloquent
Definition: lofty in style
Usage: he engages in so much tall talk, one never really realizes what he is saying
Similar words: rhetorical
Definition: given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought
Usage: mere rhetorical frippery