seeming very impressive but too large, complicated, expensive, etc. to be practical or possible 华而不实的;浮夸的;不切实际的 The grandiose scheme for a journey across the desert came to nothing. 不切实际的穿越沙漠计划已成泡影。 a grandiose opera house 华而不实的歌剧院 He could no longer live the grandiose lifestyle to which he had become accustomed. 他再也不能过他已经习惯的浮夸的生活方式了。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryGrandiose is used with these nouns:- ambition
- claim
- idea
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Word Originmid 19th cent.: from French, from Italian grandioso, from grande ‘grand’.