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Highfaluting

Definition: Highfaluting

Highfaluting

Adjective

1. Affectedly genteel.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Note: Highfaluting \High`fa*lu"ting\, noun. [Perh. corruption of highflighting.]. (references)

 

Synonyms: Highfaluting

Synonyms: grandiose (adj), hifalutin (adj), highfalutin (adj), hoity-toity (adj), la-di-da (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Highfaluting

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Boasting

Noun: boasting; Verb: boast, vaunt, crake; pretense, pretensions; puff, puffery; flourish, fanfaronade; gasconade; blague, bluff, gas; highfalutin, highfaluting; hot air, spread-eagleism; brag, braggardism; bravado, bunkum, buncombe; jactancy; bounce; venditation, vaporing, rodomontade, bombast, fine talking, tall talk, magniloquence, teratology, heroics; Chauvinism; exaggeration.

Adjective: boasting; Verb: magniloquent, flaming, Thrasonic, stilted, gasconading, braggart, boastful, pretentious, soi-disant; vainglorious; (conceited); highfalutin, highfaluting; spread-eagle.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translation: Highfaluting

Language Translations for "highfaluting"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

pompoz (flamboyant, pompous), i fryrë (assuming, bloated, bombastic, bulging, bumptious, cock-a-hoop, conceited, extravagant, flatulent, fustian, grandiloquent, grandiose, high, high-sounding, hoity toity, inflated, mouthy, orotund, overblown, plethoric, pompous, puffed, puffed up, puffy, sounding, swollen, tumid, turgid, uppish, uppity, vainglorious), bombastik (bombastic, high-flown, high-sounding, mouthy, pompous). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

надут език (heroics), надут (bombastic, conceited, consequential, coxcombical, declamatory, florid, grandiloquent, haughty, high-blown, important, inflated, magniloquent, mandarin, mouthy, orotund, overblown, pompous, portentous, prancing, puffy, sidy, solemn, sounding, stilted, swelling, swollen, theatrical, tumid, uppish, uppity). (various references)

   

Czech

  

nabubřelý (gassy, pompous, puffy, stilted, turgid), bombastický (bombastic, overblown, sententious). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πομπώδησ (bombastic, consequential, flatus, grandiloquence, grandiose, magniloquent, pompous, splurge, stilted, turgid). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ימר י (ambitious, overweening, pretentious). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

fellengzõs (magniloquent, orotund, pompous), dagályos (bombast, bombastic, effusive, flatulent, grandiloquent, high-flown, inflated, luscious, magniloquent, mouth-filling, pompous, puffed-up, ranting, redundant, stilted), cikornyás (arabesque, fussy, redundant). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ighfalutinghay.(various references)

   

Romanian

  

sunãtor (bombastic, highfalutin, resounding, ringing, sonorous), sforãitor (highfalutin, high-flown, snoring, snorting), pompos (emphatic, exaggerative, highfalutin, high-flown, high-sounding, important, large, magniloquent, pompous, state, stilted, swollen, theatrical, tumid), bombastic (baggy, bombastic, bombastically, declamatory, emphatic, exaggerative, flamboyant, grandiloquent, grandiose, high-blown, highfalutin, high-flown, inflated, magniloquent, mouthy, plethoric, puffy, rotund, stilted, turgid), afectat (affected, affectedly, Arty, curious, demure, demurely, euphuistic, far fetched, finical, finicking, gushing, highfalutin, high-flown, lackadaisical, La-di-da, mannered, miminy-piminy, mincing, namby-pamby, niminy-piminy, preciously, pretty, primly, recherche, scenic, self conscious, stilted, studied, swollen, theatrical). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

напыщенный (bombastic, declamatory, flatulent, grandiloquent, grandiose, high-blown, highfalutin, mouth-filling, mouthy, orotund, pompous, toploty, tub-thumping, tumid), напыщенность (bombast, flatulence, flatulency, grandiloquence, orotundity, pomposity, pompousness, tumidity). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

pretencioznost, pretenciozan (cockalorum, pretentious). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pomposo (grandiose, mouthy, overblown, pompous, splendid). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

svulstig (bombastic, florid, grandiloquent, inflated, overblown, swollen, tumid, turgid, windy), pompös (declamatory, orotund, pompous, portentous). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tumturaklı (bombastic, grandiloquent, high-flown, rhetorical, rotund, stilted, tumid). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

бундючний (bombastic, cavalier, chilly, cockish, flatulent, haughty, highfalutin, high-hearted, mouth-filling, overly, pompous, puffed up, scenic, scenical, snobbish, snobby, swollen), пихатий (arrogant, assuming, bloated, cavalier, cockish, conceited, foppish, haughty, highfalutin, high-flown, high-hearted, hoity toity, inflated, magniloquent, mouthy, overweening, portentous, puffed up, ritzy, self-important, side, solemn, vain). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Highfaluting

Misspellings

"Highfaluting" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hifalutin. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Highfaluting"

Words rhyming with "highfaluting" (pronounced 'High`fa*lu"ting'): Bruting, Misbefitting, Retting, Slotting, tatting, unremitting, Unsitting, unwitting, upsetting, Yelting. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Highfaluting

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-f-g-g-h-h-i-i-l-n-t-u"

-1 letter: highfalutin.

-3 letters: alighting, fatiguing, flighting, hifalutin.

-4 letters: faithing, fanlight, faulting, fighting, gunfight, hightail, highting, inflight, laughing, ligating, lighting.

-5 letters: antiflu, failing, fatling, fliting, fluting, fugling, gainful, gaiting, gifting, guiling, gulfing, hafting, hailing, halting, hauling, hilting, infight, intagli, lathing, lifting, nautili, nilghai, nilghau, tailing, unfaith.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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