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highfalutin 音标拼音: [h ,ɑɪfəl'utɪn] a. 夸张的;夸大的 夸张的;夸大的 highfalutin adj 1: affectedly genteel [ synonym: { grandiose}, { hifalutin}, { highfalutin}, { highfaluting}, { hoity- toity}, { la- di- da}] highfalutin \ highfalutin\ highfaluting \ highfaluting\ highfalutin' \ highfalutin'\ adj. Affectedly genteel; pretentious; haughty; snobbish. [ Written also { hifalutin}.] [ informal] Syn: grandiose, hifalutin, hoity- toity, la- di- da. [ WordNet 1. 5] highfalutin
highfalutin \ high` fa* lu" tin\, highfaluting \ high` fa* lu" ting\, n. [ Perh. a corruption of highflighting.] High- flown, bombastic language. [ Written also { hifalutin}.] [ Jocular, U. S.] -- Lowell. [ 1913 Webster] 94 Moby Thesaurus words for " highfalutin": Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, ambitious, arrogant, aureate, bedizened, big, big- sounding, bombastic, classy, condescending, convoluted, declamatory, domineering, elevated, euphuistic, extravagant, fancy, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flaunting, florid, flossy, flowery, fulsome, fustian, garish, gassy, gaudy, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, haughty, high, high- faluting, high- flowing, high- flown, high- flying, high- headed, high- minded, high- nosed, high- sounding, high- swelling, high- toned, highfaluting, hoity- toity, inflated, inkhorn, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lexiphanicism, lofty, lurid, magniloquent, meretricious, oratorical, orotund, ostentatious, overbearing, overdone, overelaborate, overinvolved, overwrought, patronizing, pedantic, pompous, pretentious, proud, purse- proud, rant, rhapsody, rhetoric, rhetorical, rodomontade, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, showy, sonorous, stilted, stuck- up, superior, swollen, tall, tony, toplofty, tortuous, uppish, uppity, upstage, vaunting, windy
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