Meaning of HIGH-FLOWN
| Pronunciation: | | 'hI'flown
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- [adj] of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style; "an exalted ideal"; "argue in terms of high-flown ideals"- Oliver Franks; "a noble and lofty concept"
- [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: | | exalted, high-flying, high-minded, high-sounding, idealistic, inflated, lofty, noble, noble-minded, pretentious, rarefied, rarified |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \High"-flown`\, a.
1. Elevated; proud. ``High-flown hopes.'' --Denham.
2. Turgid; extravagant; bombastic; inflated; as, high-flown
language. --M. Arnold.
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| | Related Terms: | | absurd, affected, aggrandized, ambitious, amplified, arrogant, ballyhooed, bedizened, beyond belief, big, big-sounding, bizarre, bombastic, classy, cockamamie, condescending, convoluted, crazy, declamatory, disproportionate, domineering, elevated, euphuistic, exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, fancy, fantastic, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flaunting, flossy, foolish, fulsome, garish, gassy, gaudy, Gongoresque, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, grotesque, haughty, high, highfalutin, highfaluting, high-faluting, high-flowing, high-flying, high-headed, high-minded, high-nosed, high-sounding, high-swelling, high-toned, hoity-toity, hyperbolic, incredible, inflated, inkhorn, inordinate, Johnsonian, labyrinthine, laughable, lexiphanic, lofty, ludicrous, lurid, magnified, magniloquent, meretricious, monstrous, nonsensical, orotund, ostentatious, outrageous, outre, overbearing, overdone, overdrawn, overelaborate, overemphasized, overemphatic, overestimated, overgreat, overinvolved, overlarge, overpraised, oversold, overstated, overstressed, overwrought, patronizing, pedantic, pompous, poppycockish, preposterous, pretentious, prodigal, profuse, proud, puffed, purse-proud, rhetorical, ridiculous, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, showy, sonorous, stilted, stretched, stuck-up, superior, superlative, swollen, tall, tony, toplofty, tortuous, touted, uppish, uppity, upstage, vaunting, weird, wild, windy |
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