Meaning of HIGH-FLYING
| Pronunciation: | | hI'flIing
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[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" |
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HIGH-FLYING is a 11 letter word that starts with H. |
| | Synonyms: | | high-flown, high-sounding, inflated, pretentious |
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| | Related Terms: | | 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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