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highfalutinadjectivealso hifalutin full of fine words and fancy expressionshis highfalutin paean to the working class failed to win over a crowd that wanted to hear down-to-earth proposals for economic relief aureate, florid, flowery, grandiloquent, high-flown, high-sounding, magnific, ornate, purple, rhetorical(also rhetoric) affected, bloated, fancy-pants, grandiose, inflated, pompous, pretentious, stiltedexcessive, flattering, fulsomeboastful, bombasticelevated, eloquent, loftybookish, inkhorn, learned prosaic, unpoeticbald, direct, lean, matter-of-fact, plain, plainspoken, simple, spare, stark, straightforward, unadornednatural, unaffected, unpretentious having a feeling of superiority that shows itself in an overbearing attitudeher highfalutin relatives from New York made the snide remark that her little house "has that lived-in look" arrogant, assumptive, bumptious, cavalier, chesty, haughty, high-and-mighty, high-handed, high-hat, huffish, huffy, imperious, important, lofty, lordly, masterful, overweening, peremptory, pompous, presuming, presumptuous, pretentious, self-asserting, self-assertive, sniffy, stiff-necked, supercilious, superior, toplofty(also toploftical), uppish, uppity authoritarian, bossy, dominant, dominating, domineering, magisterial, pontifical, pontificatingcondescending, disdainful, patronizingimpertinent, impudent, saucysnobbish, snobby, snootyblusterous, blustery, boastful, bombastic, braggart, bragging, braggy, cocky, swaggering, vain, vaingloriouscomplacent, conceited, egocentric, egoistic(also egoistical), egotistic(or egotistical), hubristic, narcissistic, orgulous, prideful, proud, self-affected, self-applauding, self-centered, self-complacent, self-conceited, self-pleased, self-satisfied, smug, stuck-upself-flattering, self-loving, self-promotingbrash, forward, uninhibited, unreservedextroverted(also extraverted), immodest humble, lowly, modest, unarrogant, unpretentious bashful, cowering, cringing, demure, diffident, introverted, mousy(or mousey), overmodest, self-critical, self-doubting, sheepish, shrinking, shy, subdued, timidacquiescent, compliant, deferential, meek, passive, submissive, unaggressive, unassertive, unassuming, unobtrusive, yieldingquiet, reserved, retiring having or displaying feelings of scorn for what is regarded as beneath oneselfrefused to be intimidated by the highfalutin manner of the sales staff in the fashionable boutique disdainful, haughty, lofty, lordly, prideful, proud, superior complacent, conceited, egoistic, egotistic(also egotistical), important, self-assertive, self-conceited, self-contented, self-important, self-satisfied, smug, uppity, vain, vaingloriousarrogant, pretentious, sniffy, snobbish, stuck-up, superciliouscavalier, overbearing, overweening, peremptory, swaggeringhigh-sounding, pompouscondescending, patronizingcocky, overconfident, presuming, presumptuousbloated, boastful, bombastic, self-glorifyingaudacious, bold, brash, brassy, cheeky, cocksure, forward, impertinent, impudent, saucyconfident, presuming, self-assured, self-confident, surebossy, domineering, high-handed, imperiousegocentric, self-centered, selfishdominating, magisterial, masterful humble, lowly, modest demure, homely, meek, unassuming, unpretending, unpretentiousbashful, retiring, shy, timiddiffident, self-doubtingacquiescent, compliant, deferential, ingratiating, resigned, submissive, unassertive, yieldingapologetic, cowering, cringing, shrinkingpassive, quiet, reserved, subdued, unobtrusive self-consciously trying to present an appearance of grandeur or importance"fine Southern cuisine" sounds a bit highfalutin for a barbecue shack affected, grandiose, high-minded, la-di-da(also la-de-da or lah-de-dah or lah-dee-dah or lah-di-dah), ostentatious, pompous, pretentious, snippy airy, grandiloquent, high-flown, high-sounding, high-toned, sententiousarrogant, bumptious, complacent, conceited, egoistic(also egoistical), egotistic(or egotistical), high-and-mighty, high-handed, high-hat, hoity-toity, imperious, important, overweening, presumptuous, prideful, proud, self-asserting, self-assertive, self-centered, self-complacent, self-conceited, self-important, self-obsessed, self-pleased, self-satisfied, smug, uppity, vain, vaingloriousself-aggrandizing, self-dramatizing, self-glorifying, self-promotingcavalier, disdainful, haughty, lordly, snobbish, snobby, stuck-up, supercilious, superiorconfident, self-assured, self-confident, sureboastful, braggart, braggingaggressive, assertive, audacious, bold, brassy, cheeky, cocky, forward, impudent, insolent, rudeflamboyant, flashy, flaunting, garish, gaudy, glitzy, showy, splashy modest, unpretentious demure, down-to-earth, homely, humble, lowly, meek, retiring, unassertive, unassumingbashful, diffident, mousy(or mousey), overmodest, passive, quiet, reserved, shy, timid in 1839 |