Meaning of HIGH-SOUNDING
| Pronunciation: | | hI'sawnding
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| | Definition: | | [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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| | Synonyms: | | high-flown, high-flying, inflated, pretentious |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \High"-sound`ing\, a.
Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or
titles.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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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