hifalutin

[hahy-fuh-loot-n] / ˌhaɪ fəˈlut n /

ADJECTIVE

highfalutin

Synonyms

WEAK

affected arrogant boastful conceited condescending flaunting grandiose high-and-mighty important la-di-da lofty mannered ostentatious overbearing presumptuous pretentious puffed-up puffy self-centered stuck-up swanky uppity vain

Example Sentences

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“Sirens,” premiering Thursday on Netflix, is an odd sort of a series, an interesting mix of hifalutin ideas, family drama and what might be called dark farce.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2025

My pals have had a running joke for years that my general culinary proclivities lean rather hifalutin, except for Mountain Dew, which could be considered a glaring anomaly.

From Salon • Nov. 8, 2023

No, I mean realism in the hifalutin philosophical sense, which assumes that the world has an objective, physical existence, independent of us, that we can discover through science.

From Scientific American • Mar. 19, 2021

Related: Won't get fooled again: why 80s New York trumps Vinyl's 70s nostalgia This starts to sound hifalutin, I guess.

From The Guardian • Apr. 4, 2016

The Potomac boys are mitey hifalutin, some of em, and they and the Tennessee boys and us pure hated each other worse than we hated the rebs.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt