Highfaluting: alternatives and connections

High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic.

Swelling words without much meaning; bombastic language; fustian.

A bombastic report from the French armies.

Characterized by rhetorical display; pretentiously rhetorical; without solid sense or argument; bombastic; noisy; as, a declamatory wa…

an emblem flown as a symbol of nationality

An affectation of excessive elegance and refinement of language; high-flown diction.

One who affects excessive refinement and elegance of language; -- applied esp. to a class of writers, in the age of Elizabeth, whose p…

p. p. of Fly; -- often used with the auxiliary verb to be; as, the birds are flown.

Pompous; ridiculously tumid; inflated; bombastic; as, fustian history.

Befitting a giant; bombastic; magniloquent.

high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation; "the grandiosity of his prose"; "an excessive ornateness of language"

Speaking in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic.

high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation; "the grandiosity of his prose"; "an excessive ornateness of language"

greater than normal in quantity or amount; "a high temperature"; "a high price"; "the high point of his career"; "high risks"; "has hi…

Of or pertaining to, or favoring, the party called the High Church, or their doctrines or policy. See High Church, under High, a.

Turgid; extravagant; bombastic; inflated; as, high-flown language.

small Old World falcon formerly trained and flown at small birds

Turgid; swelling; puffed up; bombastic; pompous; as, an inflated style.