What is a person called who likes to use big words to make others think they are superior? [duplicate]
What is a person called who uses:
- Complicated vocabulary when a simple answer would be sufficient?
- Uses complex vocabulary to make others think they are highly educated
- Is unnecessarily verbose
You could describe the person as grandiloquent:
(of a person, their language or writing) given to using language in a showy way by using an excessive amount of difficult words to impress others; bombastic; turgid