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high flown
adjective as in metaphysical
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- bodiless
- deep
- difficult
- discarnate
- eternal
- fundamental
- high-flown
- ideal
- immaterial
- impalpable
- incorporeal
- insubstantial
- intangible
- intellectual
- jesuitic
- nonmaterial
- nonphysical
- numinous
- oversubtle
- preternatural
- profound
- recondite
- superhuman
- superior
- supermundane
- suprahuman
- supramundane
- supranatural
- transcendental
- unearthly
- unfleshly
- universal
- unphysical
- unreal
- unsubstantial
adjective as in pompous
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adjective as in pretentious
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- affected
- assuming
- aureate
- big
- bombastic
- chichi
- conspicuous
- euphuistic
- extravagant
- feigned
- flamboyant
- flashy
- flaunting
- flowery
- gaudy
- grandiloquent
- high-flown
- high-sounding
- highfalutin
- imposing
- inflated
- jazzy
- la-di-da
- lofty
- magniloquent
- mincing
- ornate
- overambitious
- puffed up
- put on
- rhetorical
- specious
- splashy
- swank
- too-too
- tumid
- utopian
- vainglorious
adjective as in rhetorical
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Weak matches
- articulate
- aureate
- bombastic
- declamatory
- eloquent
- embellished
- euphuistic
- exaggerated
- flamboyant
- flashy
- florid
- fluent
- glib
- grand
- grandiloquent
- grandiose
- high-flown
- hyperbolic
- imposing
- inflated
- magniloquent
- mouthy
- ornate
- ostentatious
- overblown
- overdone
- overwrought
- pompous
- pretentious
- showy
- silver-tongued
- sonorous
- stilted
- swollen
- tumescent
- tumid
- turgid
- verbose
- voluble
- windy
adjective as in snobbish
adjective as in stilted
adjective as in bombastic
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adjective as in vaulting
Strong match
adjective as in high-sounding
adjective as in puffed-up
Weak matches
- affected
- bloated
- boastful
- bombastic
- conceited
- flatulent
- flaunting
- flowery
- fustian
- grandiloquent
- grandiose
- high-and-mighty
- high-flown
- highfalutin
- hoity-toity
- imperious
- important
- inflated
- magisterial
- magniloquent
- narcissistic
- orotund
- ostentatious
- overbearing
- overblown
- pontifical
- portentous
- presumptuous
- pretentious
- puffy
- rhetorical
- self-centered
- self-important
- selfish
- showy
- sonorous
- stuck-up
- supercilious
- turgid
- uppity
- vain
- vainglorious
- windy
adjective as in uppish
adjective as in elevated
adjective as in florid
adjective as in flowery
adjective as in grandiloquent
adjective as in grandiose
adjective as in heroic
adjective as in high-flown
adjective as in ideal
adjective as in imaginative
adjective as in exalted, lofty
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Example Sentences
Best line: “No amount of straining for high-flown uplift can disguise the fact that The Goldfinch is a turkey.”
The guy was a state senator from Illinois, not exactly a high-flown position.
Something between an earthly Queen and a divine Egeria; "Serena" he calls her; and, in his high-flown fashion, is very laudatory.
Toland's admiration, deducting the high-flown temper and manner of the man, is sincere and great.
But they are lost among long and high-flown speeches, which Lear keeps incessantly uttering quite inappropriately.
History is too often written in a high-flown manner that renders it wearisome and false.
This is no high-flown sentimentality, but a simple reflection, which I find useful to me every day.
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On this page you'll find 30 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to high-flown, such as: bombastic, elaborate, exaggerated, extravagant, grandiloquent, and grandiose.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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