highfalutin \highfalutin\ highfaluting \highfaluting\
highfalutin' \highfalutin'\adj.
Affectedly genteel; pretentious; haughty; snobbish. [Written
also hifalutin.] [informal]
Syn: grandiose, hifalutin, hoity-toity, la-di-da.
[WordNet 1.5] highfalutin
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
highfalutin \high`fa*lu"tin\, highfaluting \high`fa*lu"ting\, n.
[Perh. a corruption of highflighting.]
High-flown, bombastic language. [Written also hifalutin.]
[Jocular, U. S.] --Lowell.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
highfalutin
adj : affectedly genteel [syn: grandiose, hifalutin, highfaluting,
hoity-toity, la-di-da]
WordNet (r) 2.0
94 Moby Thesaurus words for "highfalutin":
Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, ambitious, arrogant, aureate,
bedizened, big, big-sounding, bombastic, classy, condescending,
convoluted, declamatory, domineering, elevated, euphuistic,
extravagant, fancy, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flaunting, florid,
flossy, flowery, fulsome, fustian, garish, gassy, gaudy,
grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, haughty, high,
high-faluting, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-headed,
high-minded, high-nosed, high-sounding, high-swelling, high-toned,
highfaluting, hoity-toity, inflated, inkhorn, labyrinthine,
lexiphanic, lexiphanicism, lofty, lurid, magniloquent,
meretricious, oratorical, orotund, ostentatious, overbearing,
overdone, overelaborate, overinvolved, overwrought, patronizing,
pedantic, pompous, pretentious, proud, purse-proud, rant, rhapsody,
rhetoric, rhetorical, rodomontade, sensational, sensationalistic,
sententious, showy, sonorous, stilted, stuck-up, superior, swollen,
tall, tony, toplofty, tortuous, uppish, uppity, upstage, vaunting,
windy
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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