high-flown

  • 21high-flown Hebrew — high level Hebrew, sophisticated words in Hebrew, elegant Hebrew rhetoric …

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  • 22high-flown — adjective (especially of language) extravagant or grandiose …

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  • 23high-flown — /ˈhaɪ floʊn / (say huy flohn) adjective 1. extravagant in aims, pretensions, etc. 2. pretentiously lofty; bombastic …

  • 24high-flown words — eloquent words …

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  • 25flown — flown1 [flōn] vi., vt. pp. of FLY1: sometimes used to form hyphenated adjectives [far flown, high flown] flown2 [flōn] adj. [obs. pp. of FLOW] filled too full …

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  • 26high|fa|lu|ting — high|fa|lu|tin or high|fa|lu|ting «HY fuh LOO tuhn», adjective, noun. Informal. –adj. high sounding; pompous; bombastic. –n. pompous speech or writing; bombast. ╂[American English, possibly variant of high flown, or highflying] –high´ …

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  • 27high´fa|lu´tin|ly — high|fa|lu|tin or high|fa|lu|ting «HY fuh LOO tuhn», adjective, noun. Informal. –adj. high sounding; pompous; bombastic. –n. pompous speech or writing; bombast. ╂[American English, possibly variant of high flown, or highflying] –high´ …

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  • 28high|fa|lu|tin — or high|fa|lu|ting «HY fuh LOO tuhn», adjective, noun. Informal. –adj. high sounding; pompous; bombastic. –n. pompous speech or writing; bombast. ╂[American English, possibly variant of high flown, or highflying] –high´ …

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  • 29high-sounding — adjective 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 • Syn: ↑high flown, ↑inflated • Similar to:… …

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  • 30high-sounding — adj grandiloquent, magniloquent, grandiose, high flown. See high flown …

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