high-faluting

high-faluting
high-falutin [-fəˈluːtın], auch high-faluting [-tıŋ] adj & s umg hochtrabend(es Geschwätz)

English-german dictionary. 2013.

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  • lofty — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, Olympian, aerial, affected, aggrandized, airy, altitudinous, ambitious, analytic, analytical, apotheosized, aristocratic, arrogant, ascending, aspiring, august, awesome, beatified, bedizened,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • haughty — Synonyms and related words: Olympian, aerial, airy, aloof, altitudinous, arrogant, ascending, aspiring, belittling, big, boastful, cavalier, clannish, cliquish, colossal, complacent, conceited, condescending, contemptuous, contumelious, derisive …   Moby Thesaurus

  • highfalutin — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, ambitious, arrogant, aureate, bedizened, big, big sounding, bombastic, classy, condescending, convoluted, declamatory, domineering, elevated, euphuistic, extravagant, fancy,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • superior — Synonyms and related words: A per se, a cut above, above, above par, absolute, ace, ahead, appalling, arrogant, ascendant, astonishing, authoritarian, authoritative, authorized, autocratic, better, big, big league, big name, big time, bigwig,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • big — Synonyms and related words: adult, aggrandized, ample, apotheosized, arrogant, arty, awash, awesome, awful, awfully, beatified, benevolent, big boy, big cheese, big noise, big shot, big league, big name, big time, bighearted, bigwig, bigwigged,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • toplofty — Synonyms and related words: Olympian, aerial, airy, altitudinous, arrogant, ascending, aspiring, big, cavalier, clannish, cliquish, colossal, condescending, contemptuous, contumelious, disdainful, dominating, domineering, egotistic, elevated,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • domineering — Synonyms and related words: Olympian detachment, Olympian loftiness, absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, arbitrariness, arbitrary, argumentum baculinum, aristocratic, arrogance, arrogant, arrogantness, assumption of superiority, authoritarian,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • arrogant — Synonyms and related words: absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, affected, arbitrary, aristocratic, artificial, assuming, assured, audacious, authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic, big, bloated, boastful, bold, bossy, brash, brassy, brazen,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • overbearing — Synonyms and related words: absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, arbitrary, aristocratic, arrogant, ascendant, assertive, authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic, big, bossy, bullying, cavalier, condescending, despotic, dictatorial, disdainful,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • proud — Synonyms and related words: Babylonian, Corinthian, arrogant, assured, august, awe inspiring, awful, barbaric, big, bloated, boastful, braggart, cavalier, cocksure, cocky, complacent, conceited, condescending, confident, contemptuous, convinced,… …   Moby Thesaurus

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