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View usage for: (haɪfəluːtɪn) adjectivePeople sometimes use highfalutin to describe something that they think is being made to sound complicated or important in order to impress people. [informal, old-fashioned, disapproval] This isn't highfalutin art-about-art. It's marvellous and adventurous stuff. Synonyms: pompous, lofty, high-flown, pretentious More Synonyms of highfalutin highfalutin in British English or hifalutin (ˌhaɪfəˈluːtɪn) or highfaluting adjective informal pompous or pretentious Word origin C19: from high + -falutin, perhaps variant of fluting, from flutehighfalutin in American English (ˈhaɪfəˈlutən) US adjective Informal ridiculously pretentious or pompous : also sp. ˈhighfaˈluting Word origin altered < ? high-floating, with intrusive vowel in ridicule of oratorical speech Examples of 'highfalutin' in a sentencehighfalutin Definition (of behaviour) excessively grand or pompous (informal) This isn't highfalutin art. Synonyms lofty swanky (informal) florid supercilious high-sounding arty-farty (informal) Additional synonymsthe bombastic style of his oratory Synonyms grandiloquent, inflated, ranting, windy, high-flown, pompous, grandiose, histrionic, wordy, verbose, declamatory, fustian, magniloquentDefinition impressive, or meant to impress Not one of his grandiose plans has ever come to anything. Synonyms pretentious, ambitious, extravagant, flamboyant, high-flown, pompous, showy, ostentatious, bombasticDefinition extravagant or pretentious Many personnel were put off by such high-flown rhetoric. Synonyms extravagant, elaborate, pretentious, exaggerated, inflated, lofty, grandiose, overblown, florid, high-falutin (informal), arty-farty (informal), magniloquentNearby words ofhighfalutin - highborn
- highbrow
- higher-up
- highfalutin
- highlands
- highlight
- highly
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