high-sounding
21sounding — sounding1 [soun′diŋ] adj. 1. making or giving forth sound 2. resonant; sonorous 3. high sounding; bombastic sounding2 [soun′diŋ] n. 1. a) the act of measuring the depth or examining the bottom of a body of water, etc. with or as with …
22high|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´ …
23high´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´ …
24high|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´ …
25high-flown — [hī′flōn′] adj. 1. extravagantly ambitious or aspiring 2. high sounding but meaningless; bombastic …
26high-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,… …
27high 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 …
28high-flown — adjective 1. 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 sounding, ↑inflated • Similar to …
29high flying — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, ambitious, aspiring, bedizened, big sounding, careerist, careeristic, classy, convoluted, declamatory, elevated, euphuistic, fancy, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flaunting, flossy,… …
30-sounding — [[t] saʊndɪŋ[/t]] COMB in ADJ GRADED sounding combines with adjectives to indicate a quality that a word, phrase, or name seems to have. → See also high sounding Many literary academics simply parrot a set of impressive sounding phrases.… …
