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• high-flown — adjective 1. pretentious (especially with regard to language or ideals) high flown talk of preserving the moral tone of the school a high sounding dissertation on the means to attain social revolution • Syn: ↑high sounding, ↑inflated • Similar to …   Useful english dictionary

• high-flown — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. extravagant, pretentious, haughty, high sounding, grandiloquent; see also egotistic 2 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. high sounding, bombastic, grandiloquent, lofty, grandiose, pretentious, stilted, inflated,… …   English dictionary for students

• high — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. elevated, lofty, tall; towering, eminent; acute, sharp, shrill; prominent, important, directorial; costly, dear, expensive; overripe, gamy; informal, elated; slang, drunk. See height, drinking,… …   English dictionary for students

• high — adj., n., & adv. adj. 1 a of great vertical extent (a high building). b (predic.; often in comb.) of a specified height (one inch high; water was waist high). 2 a far above ground or sea level etc. (a high altitude). b inland, esp. when raised… …   Useful english dictionary

• high-flying — ˈ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ adjective 1. : rising to a considerable height displaying high flying hoofs and thrashing tails Court Paige 2. a. : inflated or pretentious in style, content, or ambition : high flown a high flying dissertation on the means to… …   Useful english dictionary

• high-sounding — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. artificial, pompous, ostentatious; see egotistic 2 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Characterized by language that is elevated and sometimes pompous in style: aureate, bombastic, declamatory, flowery, fustian,… …   English dictionary for students

• Twelve O'Clock High — Infobox Film | name =Twelve O Clock High caption = original film poster image size = 215px director = Henry King producer = Darryl F. Zanuck writer = Sy Bartlett Henry King Beirne Lay, Jr. starring = Gregory Peck Hugh Marlowe Gary Merrill Dean… …   Wikipedia

• Islamic arts — Visual, literary, and performing arts of the populations that adopted Islam from the 7th century. Islamic visual arts are decorative, colourful, and, in religious art, nonrepresentational; the characteristic Islamic decoration is the arabesque.… …   Universalium

• Spanish literature — Introduction       the body of literary works produced in Spain. Such works fall into three major language divisions: Castilian, Catalan, and Galician. This article provides a brief historical account of each of these three literatures and… …   Universalium

• euphuism — [yo͞o′fyo͞o iz΄əm] n. [< Euphues, fictitious character in two prose romances by John Lyly < Gr euphyēs, shapely, graceful < eu (see EU ) + phyē, growth < phyein, to grow (see BONDAGE) + ISM] 1. the artificial, affected, high flown… …   English World dictionary

• grandiloquence — noun high flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation the grandiosity of his prose an excessive ornateness of language • Syn: ↑grandiosity, ↑magniloquence, ↑ornateness, ↑rhetoric • Derivationally related forms: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary