High-Flown
Related Definitions
[adj] of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style; "an exalted ideal"; "argue in terms of high-flown ideals"- Oliver Franks; "a noble and lofty concept"
[adj] (informal) pretentious; "high-flown talk of preserving the moral tone of the school"; "a high-flying dissertation on the means to attain social revolution"
Synonyms
exalted, high-flying, high-minded, high-sounding, idealistic, inflated, lofty, noble, noble-minded, pretentious, rarefied, rarified
Related Terms
absurd, affected, aggrandized, ambitious, amplified, arrogant, ballyhooed, bedizened, beyond belief, big, big-sounding, bizarre, bombastic, classy, cockamamie, condescending, convoluted, crazy, declamatory, disproportionate, domineering, elevated, euphuis