highfaluting as an adjective: - 1
highfaluting
adjective
1 highfaluting
Affectedly genteel.
synonyms: grandiose, hifalutin, highfalutin, hoity-toity, la-di-da.
Roget 884:
boasting
etc.
v.;
magniloquent,
flaming,
Thrasonic,
stilted,
gasconading,
braggart,
boastful,
pretentious,
soi-disant [Fr.];
vainglorious
etc.
(conceited)
880;
highfalutin,
highfaluting†;
spread-eagle [U.S.].
elate,
elated;
jubilant,
triumphant,
exultant;
in high feather;
flushed,
flushed with victory;
cock-a-hoop;
on stilts.
vaunted
etc.
v..
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noun
Roget 884:
boasting
etc.
v.;
boast,
vaunt,
crake†;
pretense,
pretensions;
puff,
puffery;
flourish,
fanfaronade†;
gasconade;
blague†,
bluff,
gas [Slang];
highfalutin,
highfaluting†;
hot air,
spread-eagleism [U.S.];
brag,
braggardism†;
bravado,
bunkum,
buncombe;
jactitation†,
jactancy†;
bounce;
venditation†,
vaporing,
rodomontade,
bombast,
fine talking,
tall talk,
magniloquence,
teratology†,
heroics;
Chauvinism;
exaggeration
etc.
549.
vanity
etc.
880;
vox et praeterea nihil [Lat.];
much cry and little wool,
brutum fulmen [Lat.].
exultation;
gloriation†,
glorification;
flourish of trumpets;
triumph
etc.
883.
boaster;
braggart,
braggadocio;
Gascon [Fr.],
fanfaron†,
pretender,
soi-disant [Fr.];
blower [U.S.],
bluffer,
Foxy Quiller†;
blusterer
etc.
887;
charlatan,
jack-pudding,
trumpeter;
puppy
etc.
(fop)
854.
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