highfaluting

1. 1.

   affectedly genteel

   Synonymsgrandiosehifalutinhighfalutinhoity-toityla-di-da

   Similarpretentious

Questions about highfaluting

What does highfaluting mean?

highfaluting means "affectedly genteel".

How many syllables are in highfaluting?

highfaluting has 4 syllables: high-fa-lu-ting. The stress falls on "fa".

What is another word for highfaluting?

Close synonyms include grandiose, hifalutin, highfalutin, hoity-toity, la-di-da. 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 highfaluting a common word?

highfaluting 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.