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High-flown

High-flown Meaning & Definition
High-flown Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of High-flown?

[adj] of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style; "an exalted ideal"; "argue in terms of high-flown ideals"- Oliver Franks; "a noble and lofty concept"
[adj] (informal) pretentious; "high-flown talk of preserving the moral tone of the school"; "a high-flying dissertation on the means to attain social revolution"

Synonyms | Synonyms for High-flown: exalted | high-flying | high-minded | high-sounding | idealistic | inflated | lofty | noble | noble-minded | pretentious | rarefied | rarified

Related Terms | Find terms related to High-flown: absurd | affected | aggrandized | ambitious | amplified | arrogant | ballyhooed | bedizened | beyond belief | big | big-sounding | bizarre | bombastic | classy | cockamamie | condescending | convoluted | crazy | declamatory | disproportionate | domineering | elevated | euphuistic | exaggerated | excessive | exorbitant | extravagant | extreme | fancy | fantastic | flamboyant | flaming | flashy | flaunting | flossy | foolish | fulsome | garish | gassy | gaudy | Gongoresque | grandiloquent | grandiose | grandisonant | grotesque | haughty | high | highfalutin | highfaluting | high-faluting | high-flowing | high-flying | high-headed | high-minded | high-nosed | high-sounding | high-swelling | high-toned | hoity-toity | hyperbolic | incredible | inflated | inkhorn | inordinate | Johnsonian | labyrinthine | laughable | lexiphanic | lofty | ludicrous | lurid | magnified | magniloquent | meretricious | monstrous | nonsensical | orotund | ostentatious | outrageous | outre | overbearing | overdone | overdrawn | overelaborate | overemphasized | overemphatic | overestimated | overgreat | overinvolved | overlarge | overpraised | oversold | overstated | overstressed | overwrought | patronizing | pedantic | pompous | poppycockish | preposterous | pretentious | prodigal | profuse | proud | puffed | purse-proud | rhetorical | ridiculous | sensational | sensationalistic | sententious | showy | sonorous | stilted | stretched | stuck-up | superior | superlative | swollen | tall | tony | toplofty | tortuous | touted | uppish | uppity | upstage | vaunting | weird | wild | windy

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High-flown In Webster's Dictionary

\High"-flown`\, a. 1. Elevated; proud. ``High-flown hopes.'' --Denham. 2. Turgid; extravagant; bombastic; inflated; as, high-flown language. --M. Arnold.

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