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High-sounding

High-sounding Meaning & Definition
High-sounding Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of High-sounding?

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

Related Terms | Find terms related to High-sounding: affected | alto | bedizened | big-sounding | convoluted | declamatory | elevated | euphuistic | falsetto | flamboyant | flaming | flashy | flaunting | fulsome | garish | gaudy | Gongoresque | grandiloquent | grandiose | grandisonant | high | highfalutin | high-flowing | high-flown | high-flying | high-pitched | high-toned | inkhorn | Johnsonian | labyrinthine | lexiphanic | lofty | lurid | magniloquent | meretricious | mezzo-soprano | orotund | ostentatious | overdone | overelaborate | overinvolved | overwrought | pedantic | pompous | pretentious | rhetorical | sensational | sensationalistic | sententious | showy | sonorous | soprano | stilted | tall | tenor | tortuous | treble

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High-sounding In Webster's Dictionary

\High"-sound`ing\, a. Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.

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