High-flown

Definition: High-flown

High-flown

Adjective

1. (informal) pretentious; "high-flown talk of preserving the moral tone of the school"; "a high-flying dissertation on the means to attain social revolution".

2. 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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "high-flown" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references)

Synonyms: High-flown

Insolence

Adjective: insolent, haughty, arrogant, imperious, magisterial, dictatorial, arbitrary; high-handed, high and mighty; contumelious, supercilious, overbearing, intolerant, domineering, overweening, high-flown.

Pride

Adjective: dignified; stately; proud, proud-crested; lordly, baronial; lofty-minded; highsouled, high-minded, high-mettled, high-handed, high-plumed, high-flown, high-toned.

Vanity

Adjective: vain, proud as a peacock; conceited, overweening, pert, forward; vainglorious, high-flown; ostentatious; puffed up, inflated, flushed.

Crosswords: High-flown

Albanian

elokuent, ekstravagant (crazy, fancy, florid), bombastik (bombastic, highfaluting, high-sounding, mouthy, pompous). (various references)

Bulgarian 

екстравагантен (extravagant, outrageous, quizzical, rakish, viewy), бомбастичен (mandarin, mouth-filling, mouthy, pompous, puffy, sounding, spread eagle, tumid, turgid). (various references)

Czech

výstřední (crazy, eccentric, extravagant, fantastic, garish, queer). (various references)

Dutch

extravagant (extravagant), buitensporig (excessive, excessively, extravagant, inordinate), buitennissig (extravagant), buitenissig (extravagant). (various references)

Esperanto

ekstravaganca (extravagant). (various references)

Finnish

pateettinen (pathetic), korkealentoinen. (various references)

German

verstiegen (extravagant, fancy, fantastic). (various references)

Hungarian

dagályos (bombast, bombastic, effusive, flatulent, grandiloquent, highfaluting, inflated, luscious, magniloquent, mouth-filling, pompous, puffed-up, ranting, redundant, stilted). (various references)

Italian

pomposo (big, bombastic, pompous, showy, stilted). (various references)

Malay

boros (extravagant). (various references)

Pig Latin

igh-flownhay.(various references)

Portuguese

de elevada estatura (tall), alto (aloud, altisonant, bump, elevated, great, height, high, hightoned, lofty, loud, loudly, rangy, screaming, screamy, stand-up, stop, tall, top). (various references)

Romanian

umflat (baggy, bloated, blubber, bombastic, bulging, dropsical, flush, gummy, inflated, long, puffy, swollen, tumid, turgid), sforãitor (highfalutin, highfaluting, snoring, snorting), pompos (emphatic, exaggerative, highfalutin, highfaluting, high-sounding, important, large, magniloquent, pompous, state, stilted, swollen, theatrical, tumid), mândru (big, cavalier, cock-a-hoop, conceited, erect, handsome, haughty, high, high minded, high pitched, loftily, lofty, proud, splendid, stately, wonderful), bombastic (baggy, bombastic, bombastically, declamatory, emphatic, exaggerative, flamboyant, grandiloquent, grandiose, high-blown, highfalutin, highfaluting, inflated, magniloquent, mouthy, plethoric, puffy, rotund, stilted, turgid), alambicat (sophisticated), afectat (affected, affectedly, Arty, curious, demure, demurely, euphuistic, far fetched, finical, finicking, gushing, highfalutin, highfaluting, lackadaisical, La-di-da, mannered, miminy-piminy, mincing, namby-pamby, niminy-piminy, preciously, pretty, primly, recherche, scenic, self conscious, stilted, studied, swollen, theatrical). (various references)

Russian 

высокопарный (altisonant, grandiloquent, heroic, magniloquent, spread eagle, turgid), высокий (big, high, high pitched, high-pitched, lengthy, lofty, sky high, soaring, tall). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nadmen (disdainful, domineering, haughty, high-blown). (various references)

Spanish

altisonante (big sounding). (various references)

Swedish

högtravande (declamatory, magniloquent, sounding, stilted), grann (brilliant, fine, gaudy, gay, gewgaw, gorgeous, grandee, magnificient, showy). (various references)

Turkish

tumturaklı (bombastic, grandiloquent, highfaluting, rhetorical, rotund, stilted, tumid), süslü (arrayed, bombastic, chichi, fancy, figurative, florid, flowery, frilly, luxuriant, natty, ornate), kibirli (arrogant, as proud as lucifer, assuming, bumptious, cavalier, conceited, consequential, disdainful, haughty, hoity toity, holier-than-thou, hubristic, important, lofty, lordly, overweening, pontifical, proud, Sniffy, snooty, stiff necked, stuck up, stuffy, supercilious, superior, uppish, uppity, upstage, vain), kendini beğenmiş (arrogant, assuming, bighead, bigheaded, bumptious, cavalier, chesty, cocky, conceited, egotistical, haughty, high hat, high-flying, hoity toity, hoity-toity, holier-than-thou, important, insufferable, jackanapes, jumped-up, mugwump, overweening, pompous, pretentious, prig, priggish, self sufficient, self-important, self-opinionated, self-righteous, smug, Sniffy, snooty, snotty, stuck up, stuffed shirt, stuffy, supercilious, swelled head, swollen-headed, taffy-nosed, toffee-nosed, toffy-nosed, uppish, uppity, upstage, vain), şatafatlı (candied, de luxe, gaudy, ornate, pompous, showy, sounding, tumid). (various references)

Ukrainian

високомовний (grandiloquent), високий (big, elevated, high, long, overhead, tall, towering), піднесений (applausive, elevated, eminent, exalted, grand, great, high minded, rarefied, sublime), пихатий (arrogant, assuming, bloated, cavalier, cockish, conceited, foppish, haughty, highfalutin, highfaluting, high-hearted, hoity toity, inflated, magniloquent, mouthy, overweening, portentous, puffed up, ritzy, self-important, side, solemn, vain). (various references)

Welsh

hedegog (flying). (various references)

Misspellings

"High-flown" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: highflow, highflown, hy-flo. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: flowing, fowling, howling, wolfing.

-3 letters: holing, inflow, lowing.

-4 letters: fling, flong, flown, gonif, lingo, ohing, owing.

-5 letters: filo, fino, flog, flow, fohn, foil, foin, fowl, glow, golf, gown, high, hong, howf, howl, info, ling, lino, lion, loin, long, lown, nigh, noil, whig, whin, wing, wino, wolf.