high-toned as an adjective: - 1
high-toned
adjective
1 high-toned
Pretentiously elegant:
— A high-toned restaurant.
synonym: high-class.
Roget 410:
creaking
etc.
v.;
stridulous†,
harsh,
coarse,
hoarse,
horrisonous†,
rough,
gruff,
grum†,
sepulchral,
hollow.
sharp,
high,
acute,
shrill;
trumpet-toned;
piercing,
ear-piercing,
high-pitched,
high-toned;
cracked;
discordant
etc.
414;
cacophonous.
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Roget 878:
dignified;
stately;
proud,
proud-crested;
lordly,
baronial;
lofty-minded;
highsouled,
high-minded,
high-mettled†,
high-handed,
high-plumed,
high-flown,
high-toned.
haughty lofty,
high,
mighty,
swollen,
puffed up,
flushed,
blown;
vainglorious;
purse-proud,
fine;
proud as a peacock,
proud as Lucifer;
bloated with pride.
supercilious,
disdainful,
bumptious,
magisterial,
imperious,
high and mighty,
overweening,
consequential;
arrogant
etc.
885;
unblushing
etc.
880.
stiff,
stiff-necked;
starch;
perked stuck-up;
in buckram,
strait-laced;
prim
etc.
(affected)
855.
on one's dignity,
on one's high horses,
on one's tight ropes,
on one's high ropes;
on stilts;
en grand seigneur [Fr.].
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