high flown language or style

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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 — 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-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

• bombastic — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. pompous, declamatory, grandiloquent, orotund, lofty, inflated, grandiose, rhetorical, high sounding, high flown, fustian, flowery, florid, pretentious, ostentatious, overwrought, overblown, magniloquent, euphuistic,… …   English dictionary for students

• ZOHAR — (Heb. זֹהַר; (The Book of) Splendor ), the central work in the literature of the kabbalah . Introduction In some parts of the book the name Zohar is mentioned as the title of the work. It is also cited by the Spanish kabbalists under other names …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Għana (folk music) — For other meanings: see Ghana (disambiguation) Għana (pronounced /a:nə/ ah na ) is the term given to a specific type of traditional Maltese folk music. The word can have two literal meanings, the first meaning richness, wealth and prosperity. The …   Wikipedia

• bombastic — [bäm bas′tik] adj. using or characterized by high sounding but unimportant or meaningless language; pompous; grandiloquent bombastically adv. SYN. BOMBASTIC refers to speech or writing that is pompous and inflated and suggests extravagant verbal… …   English World dictionary

• G. B. Senanayake — G.B. Senanayake (July 13, 1913 March 16, 1985) was a prominent Sinhala writer who portrayed Sinhala middle class life in his novels. He is credited with introducing free verse poetry to Sinhala.He became blind later in his life and still managed… …   Wikipedia

• euphuism — /ˈjufjuɪzəm/ (say yoohfyoohizuhm) noun 1. an affected style in imitation of that of John Lyly, 1554?–1606, author of Euphues, Anatomy of Wit (1579) and Euphues and his England (1580), fashionable in England about the end of the 16th century,… …