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high-flownadjective full of fine words and fancy expressionsgave a high-flown reply instead of a simple "yes" or "no" answer aureate, florid, flowery, grandiloquent, high-sounding, highfalutin(also hifalutin), 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 very dignified in form, tone, or stylehigh-flown speeches about the nobleness of their cause elevated, eloquent, formal, lofty, majestic, stately, towering affected, bombastic, declamatory, florid, flowery, grandiloquent, grandiose, highfalutin(also hifalutin), oratorical, pompous, pretentious, rhetorical(also rhetoric), stiltedAttic, cultured, refinedclassy, courtly, fine, graceful, tastefularistocratic, genteel, patriciancorrect, educated, grammatical, properacademic(also academical), bookish, learned, literary ineloquent, low, undignified casual, colloquial, conversational, informal, nonformal, slangy, unbookish, unliterary, vernacularcoarse, common, crass, crude, gross, ill-bred, indecent, lowbred, lowbrow, rough, rough-hewn, rude, tasteless, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unpolished, unrefined, vulgarincorrect, substandard, uneducated, ungrammatical, unlearned in 1647 |