high-minded

Synonyms

affected, grandiose, highfalutin (also hifalutin), la-di-da, ostentatious, pompous, pretentious, snippy;

Antonyms

modest, unpretentious;

Near Antonyms

demure, down-to-earth, homely, humble, lowly, meek, retiring, unassertive, unassuming;

bashful, diffident, mousy (or mousey), overmodest, passive, quiet, reserved, shy, timid;

Related Words

airy, grandiloquent, high-flown, high-sounding, high-toned;

arrogant, bumptious, complacent, conceited, egoistic (also egoistical), egotistic (or egotistical), high-and-mighty, high-handed, high-hat, hoity-toity, imperious, important, overweening, presumptuous, prideful, proud, self-centered, self-complacent, self-conceited, self-important, self-obsessed, self-pleased, self-satisfied, smug, uppity, vain, vainglorious;

self-aggrandizing, self-dramatizing, self-glorifying, self-promoting;

cavalier, disdainful, haughty, lordly, snobbish, snobby, stuck-up, supercilious, superior;

flamboyant, flashy, flaunting, garish, gaudy, glitzy, showy, splashy;