Synonyms for high-sounding
- adjective
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Adjective
1. High-flown
high-flown, pompous, pretentious, stilted, highfalutin, declamatory, inflated, grandiloquent, bombastic, grandiose
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Definitions
- adj. 1
Having an elevated or moralistic tone; pompous.
Example sentences
- pretentious I now have the ability to be a pretentious prick.
- pompous It's much too pompous for such a trivial thing.
- stilted She expresses herself in a rather stilted manner.
- sonorous I like this newsreader's sonorous voice.
By length
- 7 letters
- pompous2, stilted2
- 8 letters
- inflated3, sonorous3
- 9 letters
- grandiose3, bombastic3
- 11 letters
- pretentious3, highfalutin4, declamatory
- 13 letters
- grandiloquent4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (pompous2 = 2 syllables).