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high-sounding
high-sound·ing (hī′soun′dĭng)adj. Pretentiously impressive; pompous: high-sounding oratory.high-sounding adj another term for high-flown high′-sound`ing
adj. having an impressive or pretentious sound; grand: high-sounding titles. [1550–60] Thesaurus| Adj. | 1. | high-sounding - pretentious (especially with regard to language or ideals); "high-flown talk of preserving the moral tone of the school"; "a high-sounding dissertation on the means to attain social revolution"high-flown, inflatedcolloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speechpretentious - making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction; "a pretentious country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious scholarly edition" |
high-soundingadjectiveCharacterized by language that is elevated and sometimes pompous in style:aureate, bombastic, declamatory, flowery, fustian, grandiloquent, high-flown, magniloquent, orotund, overblown, rhetorical, sonorous, swollen.Translationshigh-sounding
Synonyms for high-soundingadj characterized by language that is elevated and sometimes pompous in styleSynonyms- aureate
- bombastic
- declamatory
- flowery
- fustian
- grandiloquent
- high-flown
- magniloquent
- orotund
- overblown
- rhetorical
- sonorous
- swollen
Synonyms for high-soundingadj pretentious (especially with regard to language or ideals)SynonymsRelated Words |