high flown
adjective
Roget 577:
ornament
etc.
v.;
beautified
etc.
847;
ornate,
florid,
rich,
flowery;
euphuistic†,
euphemistic;
sonorous;
high-sounding,
big-sounding;
inflated,
swelling,
tumid;
turgid,
turgescent;
pedantic,
pompous,
stilted;
orotund;
high flown,
high flowing;
sententious,
rhetorical,
declamatory;
grandiose;
grandiloquent,
magniloquent,
altiloquent†;
sesquipedal†,
sesquipedalian;
Johnsonian,
mouthy;
bombastic;
fustian;
frothy,
flashy,
flaming.
antithetical,
alliterative;
figurative
etc.
521;
artificial
etc.
(inelegant)
579.
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Roget 515:
imagined
etc.
v.;
ben trovato [It];
air drawn,
airbuilt†.
imagining
etc.
v.,
imaginative;
original,
inventive,
creative,
fertile.
romantic,
high flown,
flighty,
extravagant,
fanatic,
enthusiastic,
unrealistic,
Utopian,
Quixotic.
ideal,
unreal;
in the clouds,
in nubibus [Lat.];
unsubsantial†
etc.
4;
illusory
etc.
(fallacious)
495.
fabulous,
legendary;
mythical,
mythic,
mythological;
chimerical;
imaginary,
visionary;
notional;
fancy,
fanciful,
fantastic,
fantastical†;
whimsical;
fairy,
fairy-like;
gestic†.
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Moby thesaurus: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, absurd, affected, aggrandized, ambitious, amplified, arrogant, ballyhooed, bedizened, beyond belief, big, big-sounding, bizarre, bombastic, classy, cockamamie, condescending, convoluted, crazy, declamatory, disproportionate, domineering, elevated, euphuistic, exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, fancy, fantastic, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flaunting, flossy, foolish, fulsome, garish, gassy, gaudy, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, grotesque, haughty, high, high-faluting, high-flowing, high-flying, high-headed, high-minded, high-nosed, high-sounding, high-swelling, high-toned, highfalutin, highfaluting, hoity-toity, hyperbolic, incredible, inflated, inkhorn, inordinate, labyrinthine, laughable, lexiphanic, lofty, ludicrous, lurid, magnified, magniloquent, meretricious, monstrous, nonsensical, orotund, ostentatious, outrageous, outre, overbearing, overdone, overdrawn, overelaborate, overemphasized, overemphatic, overestimated, overgreat, overinvolved, overlarge, overpraised, oversold, overstated, overstressed, overwrought, patronizing, pedantic, pompous, poppycockish, preposterous, pretentious, prodigal, profuse, proud, puffed, purse-proud, rhetorical, ridiculous, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, showy, sonorous, stilted, stretched, stuck-up, superior, superlative, swollen, tall, tony, toplofty, tortuous, touted, uppish, uppity, upstage, vaunting, weird, wild, windy ... show more.
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