Adjective: grand
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | grander |
| Superlative | grandest |
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more grand |
| Superlative | most grand |
Sample Sentences
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among the grandest orchestras of our time
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The Grand Viziers of the Ottoman Empire.
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a grand mountain
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a grand army
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a grand mistake
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a grand monarch
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a grand view
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His simple vision has transformed into something far more grand.
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In the mean time, Cluffe had arrived. He was a little bit huffed and grand at being nailed as an evidence, upon a few words carelessly, or, if you will, confidentially dropped at his own mess-table, where Lowe chanced to be a guest; and certainly with no suspicion that his little story could in any way be made to elucidate the mystery of Sturk's murder. [1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:]
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a grand lodge
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a grand vizier
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a grand piano
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grandfather, grandson, grand-child
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A cup of tea? That'd be grand.
Adjectives inflected like grand
wholsom,
seldom,
scared,
solemn,
silent,
beloved,
uptight,
perfect,
useless,
up-tight,
selfish,
distinct,
discreet,
Dutch,
reckless,
bumfuck,
worthless,
slender,
faithfull,
shallow, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle English grand, grond, graund, graunt, from Anglo-Norman graunt, from Old French grant, from Latin grandis. Doublet of grande and grandee. See: Latin Adjectives '
grandis'.
Verbs referencing "grand"
Spanish Adjectives
grande, English Adjectives
grandiose.