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Synonyms & Antonyms of high-sounding
full of fine words and fancy expressions
- high-sounding speeches full of promises that the candidates would never keep
Synonyms for high-sounding
- aureate,
- florid,
- flowery,
- grandiloquent,
- high-flown,
- highfalutin
- (also hifalutin),
- magnific,
- ornate,
- purple,
- rhetorical
- (also rhetoric)
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The first known use of high-sounding was in 1624
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