Synonyms of high-flown

high-flown

adjective

ˈhī-ˈflōn 

1

as in rhetoric

full of fine words and fancy expressions

gave a high-flown reply instead of a simple "yes" or "no" answer

Synonyms & Similar Words

• rhetoric
• rhetorical
• ornate
• purple
• grandiloquent
• high-sounding
• hifalutin
• eloquent
• florid
• flowery
• boastful
• highfalutin
• grandiose
• aureate
• excessive
• inflated
• pretentious
• stilted
• pompous
• bombastic
• magnific
• affected
• bloated
• flattering
• fulsome
• fancy-pants
• lofty
• learned
• bookish
• elevated
• inkhorn

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• prosaic
• simple
• plain
• direct
• matter-of-fact
• unpoetic
• straightforward
• lean
• unadorned
• spare
• bald
• stark
• natural
• plainspoken
• unaffected
• unpretentious

2

as in eloquent

very dignified in form, tone, or style

high-flown speeches about the nobleness of their cause

Synonyms & Similar Words

• eloquent
• formal
• rhetoric
• majestic
• rhetorical
• literary
• lofty
• cultured
• stately
• grammatical
• aristocratic
• graceful
• elevated
• towering
• grandiloquent
• grandiose
• declamatory
• bombastic
• oratorical
• pretentious
• stilted
• florid
• educated
• refined
• pompous
• fine
• flowery
• proper
• hifalutin
• correct
• highfalutin
• courtly
• affected
• tasteful
• classy
• academic
• patrician
• Attic
• academical
• genteel
• learned
• bookish

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• low
• undignified
• informal
• colloquial
• conversational
• slangy
• casual
• vernacular
• vulgar
• common
• nonformal
• crude
• unliterary
• coarse
• ineloquent
• gross
• uncouth
• indecent
• tasteless
• crass
• unrefined
• rough
• uncultivated
• rude
• unpolished
• uncultured
• lowbrow
• ungrammatical
• uneducated
• incorrect
• substandard
• unlearned
• rough-hewn
• unbookish
• ill-bred
• lowbred

Examples of high-flown in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Order this: If all this is too high-flown for you, call for The Hook Up, your basic red sauce-sausage-pepperoni deal. —Lawrence Specker | [e-mail], al, 14 June 2023