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high-flown has 12 distinct synonyms spread across 2 of its 2 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
pretentious (especially with regard to language or ideals)
“high-flown talk of preserving the moral tone of the school”
of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style
“an exalted ideal”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for high-flown come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.