Highfalutin

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  highfalutin \highfalutin\ highfaluting \highfaluting\
  highfalutin' \highfalutin'\adj.
     Affectedly genteel; pretentious; haughty; snobbish. [Written
     also {hifalutin}.] [informal]
  
     Syn: grandiose, hifalutin, hoity-toity, la-di-da.


          [WordNet 1.5] highfalutin

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  highfalutin \high`fa*lu"tin\, highfaluting \high`fa*lu"ting\, n.
     [Perh. a corruption of highflighting.]
     High-flown, bombastic language. [Written also {hifalutin}.]
     [Jocular, U. S.] --Lowell.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  highfalutin
       adj : affectedly genteel [syn: {grandiose}, {hifalutin}, {highfaluting},
              {hoity-toity}, {la-di-da}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  94 Moby Thesaurus words for "highfalutin":
     Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, ambitious, arrogant, aureate,
     bedizened, big, big-sounding, bombastic, classy, condescending,
     convoluted, declamatory, domineering, elevated, euphuistic,
     extravagant, fancy, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flaunting, florid,
     flossy, flowery, fulsome, fustian, garish, gassy, gaudy,
     grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, haughty, high,
     high-faluting, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-headed,
     high-minded, high-nosed, high-sounding, high-swelling, high-toned,
     highfaluting, hoity-toity, inflated, inkhorn, labyrinthine,
     lexiphanic, lexiphanicism, lofty, lurid, magniloquent,
     meretricious, oratorical, orotund, ostentatious, overbearing,
     overdone, overelaborate, overinvolved, overwrought, patronizing,
     pedantic, pompous, pretentious, proud, purse-proud, rant, rhapsody,
     rhetoric, rhetorical, rodomontade, sensational, sensationalistic,
     sententious, showy, sonorous, stilted, stuck-up, superior, swollen,
     tall, tony, toplofty, tortuous, uppish, uppity, upstage, vaunting,
     windy