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high-flown
Synonyms and Antonyms of high-flown
- gave a high-flown reply instead of a simple "yes" or "no" answer
aureate, florid, flowery, grandiloquent, high-sounding, highfalutin (also hifalutin), magnific, ornate, purple, rhetorical (also rhetoric)
- high-flown speeches about the nobleness of their cause
affected, bombastic, declamatory, florid, flowery, grandiloquent, grandiose, highfalutin (also hifalutin), oratorical, pompous, pretentious, rhetorical (also rhetoric), stilted
classy, courtly, fine, graceful, tasteful
aristocratic, genteel, patrician
correct, educated, grammatical, proper
academic (also academical), bookish, learned, literary
casual, colloquial, conversational, informal, nonformal, slangy, unbookish, unliterary, vernacular
coarse, common, crass, crude, gross, ill-bred, indecent, lowbred, lowbrow, rough, rough-hewn, rude, tasteless, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar
incorrect, substandard, uneducated, ungrammatical, unlearned
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