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towering
Synonyms and Antonyms of towering
- the towering mountain peaks of the Rockies
- doting parents who tend to give their children towering praise for very minor accomplishments
a bit much, over the top
- an article that in towering language decries the evils of modern society
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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