magniloquent

Etymology

From post-Classical Latin magniloquens (“talkative, verbose”).

adj

  1. Speaking pompously; using deliberately long or esoteric words.
    The sermonizer, said Dwight [Macdonald], was guilty of "puerile, stupid twaddle" and seemed to have "a remarkable power of hypnotizing himself with magniloquent platitudes." 2012, David Skinner, The Story of Ain't: America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published, HarperCollins, page 40

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