high-sounding

1. 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”

   Synonymshigh-flowninflated

   Similarpretentious

   colloquialism

Questions about high-sounding

What does high-sounding mean?

high-sounding means "pretentious (especially with regard to language or ideals)".

How many syllables are in high-sounding?

high-sounding has 3 syllables: high--soun-ding. The stress falls on "high-".

What is another word for high-sounding?

Close synonyms include high-flown, inflated. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is high-sounding a common word?

high-sounding is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.