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High-flown

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Adjective

1. high-flown, high-sounding, inflated

pretentious (especially with regard to language or ideals)

Example Sentences:
'high-flown talk of preserving the moral tone of the school'
'a high-sounding dissertation on the means to attain social revolution'

2. elevated, exalted, grand, high-flown, high-minded, idealistic, lofty, noble-minded, rarefied, rarified, sublime

of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style

Example Sentences:
'an exalted ideal'
'argue in terms of high-flown ideals'
'a noble and lofty concept'
'a grand purpose'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


High-flown

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adjective
extravagant or pretentious in conception or intention
high-flown ideas

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High-flown

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adjective
1. 
extravagantly ambitious or aspiring
2. 
high-sounding but meaningless; bombastic

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High-flown

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adj.
1. Exceedingly lofty or exalted: high-flown ideas about the history of Christianity.
2. Highly pretentious or inflated: high-flown rhetoric.

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