high-flown
11high-flown — adjective Date: 1647 1. exceedingly or excessively high or favorable 2. having an excessively embellished or inflated character ; pretentious < high flown language > …
12high-flown — adjective one of his high flown ideas finally panned out Syn: grand, extravagant, elaborate, flowery, lofty, ornate, overblown, overdone, overwrought, grandiloquent, magniloquent, grandiose, orotund, inflated, high sounding; affected, pretentious …
13high-flown — /huy flohn /, adj. 1. extravagant in aims, pretensions, etc. 2. pretentiously lofty; bombastic: We couldn t endure his high flown oratory. [1640 50] Syn. 2. florid, flowery, magniloquent, grandiloquent. * * * …
14high-flown — adjective high flown language sounds impressive but does not have much real meaning …
15high-flown — UK [ˌhaɪ ˈfləʊn] / US [ˌhaɪ ˈfloʊn] adjective high flown ideas or language sound very complicated or important but are often not very useful or practical …
16high flown — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, absurd, affected, aggrandized, ambitious, amplified, arrogant, ballyhooed, bedizened, beyond belief, big, big sounding, bizarre, bombastic, classy, cockamamie, condescending, convoluted, crazy …
17high-flown — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. extravagant, pretentious, haughty, high sounding, grandiloquent; see also egotistic 2 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. high sounding, bombastic, grandiloquent, lofty, grandiose, pretentious, stilted, inflated,… …
18high-flown — adj grandiloquent, grandiose, magniloquent, extravagant, lofty, vaulting, high sounding, Johnsonian, Ossianic, sonorous, sesquipedalian; bombastic, bombastical, inflated, swollen, bloated, flatulent, turgid, plethoric; overdrawn, overdone,… …
19high-flown — adjective a) pretentiously eloquent; highly figurative b) lofty, extravagant, refined Syn: bombastic, high minded …
20high-flown — a. 1. Elevated, presumptuous, swollen, proud, lofty. 2. Extravagant, lofty, high colored, over drawn, overstrained. 3. Turgid, swollen, bombastic, pretentious, pompous, strained …
