adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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Conrad now conceived a new and even more grandiose strategy.
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The more grandiose their mad ark visions got, the more interested in the whole idea they all became.
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When the farm worker sees ex-workmates supporting a more grandiose life-style he becomes more aware of his own relatively lowly situation.
■ NOUN
idea
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Of course grandiose ideas of this sort can never be said to be entirely new.
plan
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Today the Government has grandiose plans for a new futuristic city centre.
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Once Louis's advisers were involved these grandiose plans gave way to more realistic ones.
scheme
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Most importantly, it should be cheaper than some grandiose schemes being floated to bring back the age of sail.
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In such a context Mr Bush's grandiose schemes are not only unwelcome; they are an irrelevance.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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It's just another of Wheeler's grandiose schemes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As the Wesleyan Methodists became increasingly respectable they too built grandiose chapels in the suburbs.
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In the autumn twilight the great building appeared simultaneously shoddy and grandiose .
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Of course grandiose ideas of this sort can never be said to be entirely new.
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On the one hand they are rebuilding in Berlin the grandiose capital of a restored nation state.
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Statements of positive expectations need not be grandiose .
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The more grandiose their mad ark visions got, the more interested in the whole idea they all became.
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Their proposals are simple, grandiose in scope and traverse party lines.