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On this page you'll find 42 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to highfalutin, such as: affected, arrogant, boastful, conceited, condescending, and flaunting.
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It’s like, I only get to make the highfalutin’ Rainer Maria Rilke references so long as I’m also making references to Homestar Runner.
HOW GIDEON THE NINTH AUTHOR TAMSYN MUIR QUEERS THE SPACE OPERACONSTANCE GRADYFEBRUARY 5, 2021VOXHe's the only one of these fellows I've tackled who didn't tell me a lot of highfalutin rot they wanted put into the article.
A HOOSIER CHRONICLEMEREDITH NICHOLSONHe hated the "highfalutin" bearing of these "furriners," who carried their chins aloft like masters of creation.
THE CODE OF THE MOUNTAINSCHARLES NEVILLE BUCK"An' you, Em, look more highfalutin' than a peacock," he replied.
THE EMERALD CITY OF OZL. FRANK BAUMOften he alluded to the opening for an American magazine, "not quite so highfalutin as the Atlantic nor so popular as Harper's."
MARSE HENRY (VOL. 1)HENRY WATTERSONI stuck to my colors—that's a highfalutin way of putting it—and I've got to pay the penalty.
NELL, OF SHORNE MILLSCHARLES GARVICEA girl gets highfalutin up there, the Doc puts her in the Ego Alter room.
NO CHARGE FOR ALTERATIONSHORACE LEONARD GOLDToo many wrong things, too many highfalutin' notions, too much just plain old hogwash.
MY SHIPMATE--COLUMBUSSTEPHEN WILDERI couldn't stand for your highfalutin excuses for being—well, never mind—we all get our off days.
THE STURDY OAKSAMUEL MERWIN, ET AL.The first appears in a Senate debate of 1841; highfalutin in a political speech of the same decade.
THE AMERICAN LANGUAGEHENRY L. MENCKENWORDS RELATED TO HIGHFALUTIN
- apish
- artificial
- assumed
- awkward
- campy
- chichi
- conceited
- contrived
- counterfeit
- counterfeited
- faked
- false
- feigned
- fraudulent
- gone Hollywood
- hammy
- highfalutin
- hollow
- imitated
- insincere
- la-di-da
- melodramatic
- ostentatious
- overdone
- pedantic
- phony
- playacting
- pompous
- precious
- pretended
- pretentious
- put on
- schmaltzy
- self-conscious
- shallow
- sham
- simulated
- spurious
- stiff
- stilted
- studied
- superficial
- theatrical
- unnatural
- arrogant
- big
- big-headed
- bombastic
- cocky
- conceited
- crowing
- egotistic
- egotistical
- exultant
- full of hot air
- highfalutin
- hot stuff
- know-it-all
- loudmouth
- on ego trip
- pompous
- pretentious
- puffed-up
- self-aggrandizing
- self-applauding
- smart-alecky
- snooty
- strutting
- stuck-up
- swaggering
- swanky
- swollen-headed
- too big for one's britches
- vainglorious
- vaunting
- windbag
- aureate
- balderdash
- big-talking
- declamatory
- euphuistic
- flowery
- full of hot air
- fustian
- grandiose
- high-flown
- highfalutin
- histrionic
- histrionical
- inflated
- loudmouthed
- magniloquent
- orotund
- ostentatious
- overblown
- ranting
- rhapsodic
- rhetorical
- sonorous
- stuffed shirt
- swollen
- tumid
- turgid
- verbose
- windbag
- windy
- wordy
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.