About The Word High-flying

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High-flying

High-flying Meaning & Definition
High-flying Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of High-flying?

[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-flying: high-flown | high-sounding | inflated | pretentious

Related Terms | Find terms related to High-flying: affected | ambitious | aspiring | bedizened | big-sounding | careerist | careeristic | classy | convoluted | declamatory | elevated | euphuistic | fancy | flamboyant | flaming | flashy | flaunting | flossy | fulsome | garish | gaudy | Gongoresque | grandiloquent | grandiose | grandisonant | highfalutin | highfaluting | high-flowing | high-flown | high-reaching | high-sounding | high-toned | inkhorn | Johnsonian | labyrinthine | lexiphanic | lofty | lurid | magniloquent | meretricious | on the make | orotund | ostentatious | overdone | overelaborate | overinvolved | overwrought | pedantic | pompous | power-hungry | pretentious | rhetorical | sensational | sensationalistic | sententious | showy | sky-aspiring | social-climbing | sonorous | stilted | tall | tony | tortuous | vaunting

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