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High-sounding — High sound ing, a. Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high sounding words or titles. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
high-sounding — {adj.} Sounding important; said for showing off; too fancy. * /The politician s speech was full of high sounding words./ * /Mr. Brown filled his son with many high sounding ideas about life./ … Dictionary of American idioms
high-sounding — {adj.} Sounding important; said for showing off; too fancy. * /The politician s speech was full of high sounding words./ * /Mr. Brown filled his son with many high sounding ideas about life./ … Dictionary of American idioms
high-sounding — adj Sounding important; said for showing off; too fancy. The politician s speech was full of high sounding words. Mr. Brown filled his son with many high sounding ideas about life … Словарь американских идиом
high sounding — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, alto, bedizened, big sounding, convoluted, declamatory, elevated, euphuistic, falsetto, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flaunting, fulsome, garish, gaudy, grandiloquent, grandiose,… … Moby Thesaurus
high-sounding — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. artificial, pompous, ostentatious; see egotistic 2 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Characterized by language that is elevated and sometimes pompous in style: aureate, bombastic, declamatory, flowery, fustian,… … English dictionary for students
high-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,… … English dictionary for students
high 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 … Moby Thesaurus
high 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,… … Moby Thesaurus
high — adj., n., & adv. adj. 1 a of great vertical extent (a high building). b (predic.; often in comb.) of a specified height (one inch high; water was waist high). 2 a far above ground or sea level etc. (a high altitude). b inland, esp. when raised… … Useful english dictionary
