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towering
Synonyms and Antonyms of towering
1
extending to a great distance upward
2
going beyond a normal or acceptable limit in degree or amount
a bit much, over the top
3
very dignified in form, tone, or style
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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