Meaning of splendiloquent | Babel Free
Definitions
- Splendid.
- Splendidly eloquent.
Examples
“After a long absence, D—— returned with a still longer face, and, after some hesitation, informed us that the whole of our baggage, including S——'s splendiloquent Scheidam, on whose restorative powers we had so much reckoned, was lost : so that we were obliged to content ourselves, after all, with the ration-biscuit D—— carried in his haversack, and the water we had in our canteens.”
“ANNIE: Oh, my eyes feel hundreds of per cent better already, and pretty, why, do you know how I look in them? Spendiloquent. Like a race horse!”
“I saw her new doo^([sic]) at Fergie's yesternight and it was splendiloquent.”
“Aid me now and forever Ye Juxtapositional Muses! And especially Tusa, splendiloquent Dinneen! hero of the fortuitous, commander of the unlikely, first citizen of the joyous lexical state!”
“Tirelessly swimming through de Quincy’s ‘department of impassioned prose,’ either in splendiloquent support of some new work or in dismissal of its shortcomings, is vouchsafed to few reviewers.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.