Grandiose is valid Scrabble Word

Is grandiose a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is grandiose valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

9 letters word
11 points in Scrabble
13 points in WWF

Definitions for GRANDIOSE in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:

imposing; bombastic
extravagantly or pretentiously imposing in appearance or style
conceived on a very grand or ambitious scale
Impressive or elevating in effect; imposing; splendid; striking; -- in a good sense.
Characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor; flaunting; turgid; bombastic; -- in a bad sense; as, a grandiose style.
impressive because of unnecessary largeness or grandeur; used to show disapproval
affectedly genteel
imposing

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor or by absurd exaggeration

Words related to GRANDIOSE

grandiosely16 grandioseness15 grandiosenesses17 grandiosities15 grandiosity16 imposing13

Words that contain GRANDIOSE

grandiosely16 grandioseness15 grandiosenesses17

How to use GRANDIOSE in a sentence

The inundation then appeared to us in all its grandiose horror.
Here had been launched on a grandiose scale a great enterprise of civilization.
An architectural foundation for the plastic forms to rest on, as plain in structure and as grandiose in line as could be fashioned, must suffice.
The composition, as a whole, is picturesque and grandiose.
It was applied too to preaching of a more formal and grandiose kind than the plain and homely Latimer ever dreamed of.
Now there is the grandiose music of Richard Strauss.
By the time of Sebastian Bach and Rameau the organ had taken on its grandiose character.
Later on, when through advancing years his intellect is becoming more and more enfeebled, he expresses his grandiose ideas in a more direct and naive manner.
It is wholesome to strip the wrappings from grandiose things.
The draperies in some of the miniatures show Byzantine teaching, but with the grandiose style of the early Roman times.

Outwardly there is little to justify my grandiose comparison.
But the speech was sufficiently emphatic, and its words were grandiose and even florid.
He was aware that he was going to make a proclamation to the People of the Earth, aware of certain grandiose phrases floating in his mind as the thing he meant to say.
It was essential that he should create vast and grandiose structures, that he should have both artistic fame and worldly success.
And thus he exposed the unreality of the grandiose pleas with which professional men impose on their wives and on themselves.
Nor has this grandiose tendency even yet spent its course.
Shaded by a few trees, and thrown into relief by a neatly kept square, this solitary church produces a really grandiose effect.
The new genius who was ruling France had in mind something more grandiose than a war with the American Republic.
In architecture the native Roman gift was for the practical combined with the massive and grandiose.
He had not dreamed that idleness on so grandiose a scale flourished in the city which to him had always been a city of hard work and limited meal-hours.
It then ascended higher, passing into the grounds of Wilbraham Hall, and ultimately stopping at the grandiose portals thereof, which were wide open.
But the aim of observation may, and should, be expressed in terms more grandiose.
As much may be said of Thackeray, whose mind was somewhat incomplete for so grandiose a figure, and not free from defects which are inimical to immortality.
I was ushered into a most princely apartment, grandiose in dimensions, superbly furnished and decorated, lighted with rich discretion, heated to a turn.
I would pretend that it was made of much more grandiose material if I could.
The notion is at least grandiose, and so stated seems almost too high and difficult for human nature to realize.
Monsieur de Mortsauf, king in his own castle and surrounded by an historic halo, had, to my eyes, a certain grandiose dignity.

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