high-flown language
1High-flown — a. 1. Elevated; proud. High flown hopes. Denham. [1913 Webster] 2. Turgid; extravagant; bombastic; inflated; as, high flown language. M. Arnold. [1913 Webster] …
2high-flown — adj high flown language sounds impressive but does not have much real meaning …
3high-flown — ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n (disapproval) High flown language is very grand, formal, or literary. It is highly probable that many of the Service s personnel were put off by such high flown rhetoric …
4high-flown — adjective Date: 1647 1. exceedingly or excessively high or favorable 2. having an excessively embellished or inflated character ; pretentious < high flown language > …
5high-flown — adjective high flown language sounds impressive but does not have much real meaning …
6high-flown — [ ,haı floun ] adjective high flown ideas or language sound very complicated or important but are often not very useful or practical …
7high-flown — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ (especially of language) extravagant or grandiose …
8high-flown — adjective 1. pretentious (especially with regard to language or ideals) high flown talk of preserving the moral tone of the school a high sounding dissertation on the means to attain social revolution • Syn: ↑high sounding, ↑inflated • Similar to …
9high-flown — UK [ˌhaɪ ˈfləʊn] / US [ˌhaɪ ˈfloʊn] adjective high flown ideas or language sound very complicated or important but are often not very useful or practical …
10high-flown — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. extravagant, pretentious, haughty, high sounding, grandiloquent; see also egotistic 2 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. high sounding, bombastic, grandiloquent, lofty, grandiose, pretentious, stilted, inflated,… …
