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Definition of highfalutin in English: highfalutin(also highfaluting, hifalutin) adjective ˌhʌɪfəˈluːtɪnˌhaɪfəˈlutn informal (especially of speech, writing, or ideas) pompous or pretentious. you don't want any highfalutin jargon Example sentencesExamples - Although it is all highfalutin balderdash, a semblance of sense does surface here and there - for example, in the scenery and the cast of characters.
- But whatever highfalutin label you put on Terkel's technique, it boils down to his ability to relate to people and get them to open up and talk frankly about their lives.
- This may lead to a greater unwillingness among people in EU nations to listen to the highfaluting ideas of their leaders.
- I could offer more highfalutin reasons as well.
- The man has a talent for spewing highfalutin drivel (mainly in print), and it can taint his otherwise engaging records.
- There's no surer way for a writer to make herself look stupid than to employ a highfalutin phrase incorrectly.
- It's kinda less highfalutin than the books I've just finished.
- I don't want to sound highfalutin, but the idea for that came to me from a play I'd seen at the old Vic under Jonathan Miller.
- Forget all that highfalutin talk about competition and laissez-faire.
- They persuasively argue that in all the generalized and sometimes highfalutin talk about globalization, the central role that women play in the massive migrations that define and sustain the new economy has been ignored.
- Another way the film startles is its highfalutin talk about prime numbers, chaos theory and French post-impressionist painters.
- Recently, we've seen people start to fret about the looming attention crisis, which is a highfalutin way of saying they're becoming overwhelmed by the number of blogs in their RSS feeds.
- Whatever theme Jones claims to explore in his highfalutin program note, the actual choreography lacks depth, structure, musicality - rigor of any kind, really.
- While some of his ideas might be highfalutin, you would never know it, because the dialogue sounds real and fresh.
- On prior evenings I had found that the most highfalutin dishes succeed the least.
- The phrase may seem at first highfalutin, but it accurately describes the phenomenon, and the phenomenon itself is not a rare thing.
- What all this highfalutin molecular biology should teach us is that we can't just throw up our hands and say: ‘His genes made him do it.’
- Yes, but on the other hand, Bob Dylan can be a bit highfaluting, a bit obscure - who would have thought that Tamborine Man is something to do with a drug dealer or something.
- Mostly by implication, the film takes on education and upward mobility; the meaning of competition; our deep ambivalence about highfalutin language; and, of course, the cult of the precocious child.
- ‘Advanced education for nail professionals’ may seem like a rather highfalutin subtitle for a magazine about manicuring.
Synonyms pretentious, affected, high-sounding, high-flown, lofty, grandiose, magniloquent grandiloquent, ornate, florid, flowery, overblown, overdone, overripe, overwrought, verbose, inflated, rhetorical, oratorical, turgid pompous, bombastic, declamatory, sonorous, portentous, pedantic, boastful, boasting, bragging informal windy, purple, la-di-da, fancy-pants, hoity-toity British informal poncey, posh rare fustian, euphuistic, orotund, tumid
Origin Mid 19th century (originally US): perhaps from high + fluting (present participle of flute). Definition of highfalutin in US English: highfalutin(also highfaluting, hifalutin) adjectiveˌhīfəˈlo͞otnˌhaɪfəˈlutn informal (especially of speech, writing, or ideas) pompous or pretentious. you don't want any highfalutin jargon Example sentencesExamples - Whatever theme Jones claims to explore in his highfalutin program note, the actual choreography lacks depth, structure, musicality - rigor of any kind, really.
- ‘Advanced education for nail professionals’ may seem like a rather highfalutin subtitle for a magazine about manicuring.
- Yes, but on the other hand, Bob Dylan can be a bit highfaluting, a bit obscure - who would have thought that Tamborine Man is something to do with a drug dealer or something.
- The phrase may seem at first highfalutin, but it accurately describes the phenomenon, and the phenomenon itself is not a rare thing.
- They persuasively argue that in all the generalized and sometimes highfalutin talk about globalization, the central role that women play in the massive migrations that define and sustain the new economy has been ignored.
- What all this highfalutin molecular biology should teach us is that we can't just throw up our hands and say: ‘His genes made him do it.’
- On prior evenings I had found that the most highfalutin dishes succeed the least.
- Another way the film startles is its highfalutin talk about prime numbers, chaos theory and French post-impressionist painters.
- While some of his ideas might be highfalutin, you would never know it, because the dialogue sounds real and fresh.
- I don't want to sound highfalutin, but the idea for that came to me from a play I'd seen at the old Vic under Jonathan Miller.
- But whatever highfalutin label you put on Terkel's technique, it boils down to his ability to relate to people and get them to open up and talk frankly about their lives.
- Forget all that highfalutin talk about competition and laissez-faire.
- This may lead to a greater unwillingness among people in EU nations to listen to the highfaluting ideas of their leaders.
- I could offer more highfalutin reasons as well.
- Mostly by implication, the film takes on education and upward mobility; the meaning of competition; our deep ambivalence about highfalutin language; and, of course, the cult of the precocious child.
- Although it is all highfalutin balderdash, a semblance of sense does surface here and there - for example, in the scenery and the cast of characters.
- There's no surer way for a writer to make herself look stupid than to employ a highfalutin phrase incorrectly.
- It's kinda less highfalutin than the books I've just finished.
- The man has a talent for spewing highfalutin drivel (mainly in print), and it can taint his otherwise engaging records.
- Recently, we've seen people start to fret about the looming attention crisis, which is a highfalutin way of saying they're becoming overwhelmed by the number of blogs in their RSS feeds.
Synonyms pretentious, affected, high-sounding, high-flown, lofty, grandiose, magniloquent grandiloquent, ornate, florid, flowery, overblown, overdone, overripe, overwrought, verbose, inflated, rhetorical, oratorical, turgid
Origin Mid 19th century (originally US): perhaps from high + fluting (present participle of flute). |