high-sounding
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Synonyms
florid, flowery, grandiloquent, high-flown, highfalutin (also hifalutin), ornate, purple, rhetorical (also rhetoric)
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high-sounding
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English Language Learners Definition of high-sounding
: using words that are meant to sound important and impressive
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