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Definition: Highfaluting |
HighfalutingAdjective1. 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: HighfalutingSynonyms: grandiose (adj), hifalutin (adj), highfalutin (adj), hoity-toity (adj), la-di-da (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
| 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. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Highfaluting" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hifalutin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "highfaluting" (pronounced 'High`fa*lu"ting'): Bruting, Misbefitting, Retting, Slotting, tatting, unremitting, Unsitting, unwitting, upsetting, Yelting. (additional references) |
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. | |
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