high-sounding+words

  • 1high-sounding words — index bombast, fustian Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

    Law dictionary

  • 2High-sounding — High sound ing, a. Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high sounding words or titles. [1913 Webster] …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 3high-sounding — {adj.} Sounding important; said for showing off; too fancy. * /The politician s speech was full of high sounding words./ * /Mr. Brown filled his son with many high sounding ideas about life./ …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 4high-sounding — {adj.} Sounding important; said for showing off; too fancy. * /The politician s speech was full of high sounding words./ * /Mr. Brown filled his son with many high sounding ideas about life./ …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 5high-sounding — adj Sounding important; said for showing off; too fancy. The politician s speech was full of high sounding words. Mr. Brown filled his son with many high sounding ideas about life …

    Словарь американских идиом

  • 6high sounding — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, alto, bedizened, big sounding, convoluted, declamatory, elevated, euphuistic, falsetto, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flaunting, fulsome, garish, gaudy, grandiloquent, grandiose,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 7high-sounding — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. artificial, pompous, ostentatious; see egotistic 2 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Characterized by language that is elevated and sometimes pompous in style: aureate, bombastic, declamatory, flowery, fustian,… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 8high-flown — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. extravagant, pretentious, haughty, high sounding, grandiloquent; see also egotistic 2 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. high sounding, bombastic, grandiloquent, lofty, grandiose, pretentious, stilted, inflated,… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 9high flown — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, absurd, affected, aggrandized, ambitious, amplified, arrogant, ballyhooed, bedizened, beyond belief, big, big sounding, bizarre, bombastic, classy, cockamamie, condescending, convoluted, crazy …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 10high flying — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, ambitious, aspiring, bedizened, big sounding, careerist, careeristic, classy, convoluted, declamatory, elevated, euphuistic, fancy, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flaunting, flossy,… …

    Moby Thesaurus