high-flown

[ hahy-flohn ]

/ ˈhaɪˈfloʊn /

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adjective

extravagant in aims, pretensions, etc.

pretentiously lofty; bombastic: We couldn't endure his high-flown oratory.

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2 florid, flowery, magniloquent, grandiloquent.

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Origin of high-flown

First recorded in 1640–50

Words nearby high-flown

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How to use high-flown in a sentence

Best line: “No amount of straining for high-flown uplift can disguise the fact that The Goldfinch is a turkey.”
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The guy was a state senator from Illinois, not exactly a high-flown position.
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Something between an earthly Queen and a divine Egeria; "Serena" he calls her; and, in his high-flown fashion, is very laudatory.
History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. I. (of XXI.)|Thomas Carlyle
Toland's admiration, deducting the high-flown temper and manner of the man, is sincere and great.
History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. I. (of XXI.)|Thomas Carlyle

But they are lost among long and high-flown speeches, which Lear keeps incessantly uttering quite inappropriately.
Tolstoy on Shakespeare|Leo Tolstoy
History is too often written in a high-flown manner that renders it wearisome and false.
The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 (of 2)|Anatole France
This is no high-flown sentimentality, but a simple reflection, which I find useful to me every day.
George Eliot's Life, Vol. I (of 3)|George Eliot

British Dictionary definitions for high-flown

high-flown

adjective

extravagant or pretentious in conception or intentionhigh-flown ideas

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