{UAH} WORD OF THE DAY March 24, 2019--------magniloquent

WORD OF THE DAY March 24, 2019

magniloquent    adjective | mag-NIL-uh-kwunt     Definition   : speaking in or characterized by a high-flown often bombastic style or manner   Scroll down for more about magniloquent      TRENDING NOW: catamount mendacious mendacity crawdad SEE ALL      PEOPLE ARE READING   Should There Be an Apostrophe in 'Farmers Market'?       The Good, The Bad, & The Semantically Imprecise - 3/22/19     On Contractions of Multiple Words       A Guide to Deciphering Diacritics         WORD GAMES AND QUIZZES: WEEKLY CHALLENGE   Original Meanings Quiz   A quiz for the pedantic and those annoyed by them!     PLAY NOW     Nailed this quiz? We have plenty more to try!  TAKE ME THERE         Did You Know?   Magnus means "great" in Latin; loqui is a Latin verb meaning "to speak." Combine the two and you get magniloquus, the Latin predecessor of magniloquent. English-speakers started using magniloquent in the 1600s—even though we have had its synonym grandiloquent since the 1500s. (Grandiloquentcomes from Latin grandiloquus, which combines loqui and grandis, another word for "great" in Latin.) Today, these synonyms continue to exist side by side and to be used interchangeably, though grandiloquent is the more common of the two.     Examples of MAGNILOQUENT   The magniloquent sportscaster sometimes got so carried away with his monologues that he would forget to describe the action on the field.   "It [the television series Billions] features two outsize, magniloquent protagonists who are constant foils to one another: light and dark, good and evil, both cut from the same ambitious cloth and therefore destined to lock in an endless pas de deux of power." — Rachel Syme, The New Republic, 1 May 2018   Name That Synonym   Unscramble the letters to create a "bombastic" synonym of magniloquent: DORNUOT.   VIEW THE ANSWER           WORDSMITH.ORG CELEBRATES 25 YEARS     Coin a word for a chance to win a visit to Merriam-Webster   Enter your word, anagram, pangram, or limerick by March 31 for a chance to win a visit to our home in Massachusetts or to Oxford, England.   SEE THE CONTEST            MORE WORD FUN:     WORD GAMES          TRENDING NOW          WORDS AT PLAY      FOLLOW US:

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