Definition for High-sounding:

• Pompous: ostentatious.

Synonyms for High-sounding:

• adj.

  •loud (adjective)
  • resounding,
  • loud-voiced.
  •ornately spoken or written (adjective)
  • flamboyant,
  • gilded,
  • flowery,
  • fancy,
  • rich,
  • showy,
  • splashy,
  • grandiloquent,
  • highfalutin,
  • rococo,
  • opulent,
  • bloated,
  • ponderous,
  • embellished,
  • rhetorical,
  • lofty,
  • ornate,
  • baroque,
  • elaborate,
  • eloquent,
  • bombastic,
  • voluble,
  • florid.

• n.

  •
  • swollen,
  • sonorous,
  • fustian,
  • declamatory.
  •artificial (noun)
  • egotistic,
  • pompous.
  •high-sounding (noun)
  • high-flying,
  • pretentious.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • magniloquent,
  • orotund,
  • aureate.
  •
  • overblown.
  •Other relevant words:
  • grand,
  • assumed,
  • idealistic,
  • elevated,
  • overelaborate,
  • jumped-up,
  • tortuous,
  • gaudy,
  • Lexiphanic,
  • artless,
  • high,
  • glorified,
  • niminy-piminy,
  • contrived,
  • Flaunting,
  • unnatural,
  • overdone,
  • fulsome,
  • oratorical,
  • exalted,
  • hyperbolic,
  • Euphuistic,
  • alto,
  • highfaluting,
  • faked,
  • sesquipedalian,
  • extravagant,
  • high-pitched,
  • sensational,
  • rotund,
  • insincere,
  • high-minded,
  • artificial,
  • flaming,
  • thundering,
  • imposing,
  • feigned,
  • meretricious,
  • affected,
  • tenor,
  • booming,
  • sham,
  • overwrought,
  • soprano,
  • impressive,
  • exaggerated,
  • convoluted,
  • sensationalistic,
  • treble,
  • lurid,
  • grandiose,
  • garish,
  • sententious,
  • reverberating,
  • Inkhorn,
  • pedantic,
  • powerful,
  • ringing,
  • factitious,
  • noble-minded,
  • sublime,
  • falsetto,
  • tall,
  • mezzo-soprano,
  • Overrated,
  • labyrinthine,
  • flashy,
  • Big-sounding,
  • forced,
  • pretended,
  • mincing,
  • bedizened,
  • high-toned.

Paraphrases for High-sounding:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    high-flown.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    fine-sounding, beautiful.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    grandiloquent, bombastic, pompous, grand, fine, overblown.

Antonyms for High-sounding:

• adj.

  • Other antonyms:
    unpretentious.