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high-soundingadjective full of fine words and fancy expressionshigh-sounding speeches full of promises that the candidates would never keep aureate, florid, flowery, grandiloquent, high-flown, 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 in 1624 |