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high-sounding

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of high-sounding

full of fine words and fancy expressions

high-sounding speeches full of promises that the candidates would never keep

Synonyms of high-sounding

aureate, florid, flowery, grandiloquent, high-flown, highfalutin (also hifalutin), magnific, ornate, purple, rhetorical (also rhetoric)

Words Related to high-sounding

affected, bloated, fancy-pants, grandiose, inflated, pompous, pretentious, stilted

excessive, flattering, fulsome

boastful, bombastic

elevated, eloquent, lofty

bookish, inkhorn, learned

Near Antonyms of high-sounding

prosaic, unpoetic

bald, direct, lean, matter-of-fact, plain, plainspoken, simple, spare, stark, straightforward, unadorned

natural, unaffected, unpretentious

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