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high-flown

  • 1 títulos volátiles

    • high flyers
    • high-flown
    • high-flying
    • yo-yo
    • yo-yo stocks
    • yod
    • YWCA
    • YYS
    • Z certificate

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > títulos volátiles

  • 2 altisonante ADJ

    high-flown, high-sounding

    Spanish-English dictionary > altisonante ADJ

  • 3 altísono ADJ

    high-flown, high-sounding

    Spanish-English dictionary > altísono ADJ

  • 4 rimbombante

    adj.
    1 pompous (estilo, frases).
    2 spectacular (desfile, fiesta).
    * * *
    1 (gen) ostentatious, showy
    2 (lenguaje) pretentious, pompous
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (=pomposo) pompous, bombastic
    2) (=ostentoso) showy, flashy
    3) (=resonante) resounding, echoing
    * * *
    adjetivo < estilo> grandiose, overblown; < palabras> high-flown; <boda/fiesta> ostentatious, showy
    * * *
    = high-flown, bombastic.
    Ex. Disaffected and literally unliterary pubescent readers were expected to be hooked by his high-flown style.
    Ex. You don't have to be bombastic to be powerful [he says in a loud voice], you can be more intimate [he says in a quieter voice].
    * * *
    adjetivo < estilo> grandiose, overblown; < palabras> high-flown; <boda/fiesta> ostentatious, showy
    * * *
    = high-flown, bombastic.

    Ex: Disaffected and literally unliterary pubescent readers were expected to be hooked by his high-flown style.

    Ex: You don't have to be bombastic to be powerful [he says in a loud voice], you can be more intimate [he says in a quieter voice].

    * * *
    ‹estilo› grandiose, overblown, pompous; ‹palabras› high-flown, pompous; ‹boda/fiesta› ostentatious, grandiose, showy
    * * *

    rimbombante adjetivo ‹ estilo› grandiose, overblown;
    ‹ palabras› high-flown;
    ‹boda/fiesta› ostentatious, showy
    rimbombante adj fam bombastic, pompous, showy
    ' rimbombante' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    grandioso
    English:
    bombastic
    * * *
    1. [estilo, frases] pompous
    2. [desfile, fiesta] spectacular
    * * *
    adj ostentatious; estilo very elaborate
    * * *
    1) : grandiose, showy
    2) : bombastic, pompous

    Spanish-English dictionary > rimbombante

  • 5 altisonante

    adj.
    high-sounding.
    * * *
    1 grandiloquent, pompous
    * * *
    adjetivo highflown
    * * *
    = ringing, high-flown, bombastic.
    Ex. Some recent literature on higher education has attempted to reaffirm, with ringing rhetoric, the principle that the search for the truth is the foundation of academic ethics.
    Ex. Disaffected and literally unliterary pubescent readers were expected to be hooked by his high-flown style.
    Ex. You don't have to be bombastic to be powerful [he says in a loud voice], you can be more intimate [he says in a quieter voice].
    * * *
    adjetivo highflown
    * * *
    = ringing, high-flown, bombastic.

    Ex: Some recent literature on higher education has attempted to reaffirm, with ringing rhetoric, the principle that the search for the truth is the foundation of academic ethics.

    Ex: Disaffected and literally unliterary pubescent readers were expected to be hooked by his high-flown style.
    Ex: You don't have to be bombastic to be powerful [he says in a loud voice], you can be more intimate [he says in a quieter voice].

    * * *
    highflown
    * * *

    altisonante adjetivo grandiloquent, high-sounding
    ' altisonante' also found in these entries:
    English:
    grandiose
    - high
    * * *
    altisonante, altísono, -a adj
    high-sounding
    * * *
    adj high-flown
    * * *
    1) : pompous, affected (of language)
    2) Mex : rude, obscene (of language)

    Spanish-English dictionary > altisonante

  • 6 pretencioso

    adj.
    1 pretentious, assuming, high-flying, la-di-da.
    2 pretentious, doggy.
    * * *
    1 pretentious
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 pretentious person
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (=vanidoso) pretentious, presumptuous; (=fanfarrón) showy
    2) LAm (=presumido) vain, stuck-up *
    * * *
    - sa adjetivo
    a) < casa> pretentious, showy; <persona/película> pretentious
    b) (Chi) ( vainidoso) vain
    * * *
    = pretentious, hyfoluted, hoity-toity, hoity-toity, high-flown.
    Ex. Book clubs do not have to be cliquish, pretentious, stuffily self-inflated, or bolt-holes for ethereal literary spirits.
    Ex. I can believe that changing the logo broke some hyfoluted view ofthe library.
    Ex. Wine lovers get the urge to splurge and celebrate, often in hoity-toity restaurants.
    Ex. It's the kind of barn where you can learn to ride without feeling mocked or like some hoity-toities are looking down their nose at you.
    Ex. Disaffected and literally unliterary pubescent readers were expected to be hooked by his high-flown style.
    * * *
    - sa adjetivo
    a) < casa> pretentious, showy; <persona/película> pretentious
    b) (Chi) ( vainidoso) vain
    * * *
    = pretentious, hyfoluted, hoity-toity, hoity-toity, high-flown.

    Ex: Book clubs do not have to be cliquish, pretentious, stuffily self-inflated, or bolt-holes for ethereal literary spirits.

    Ex: I can believe that changing the logo broke some hyfoluted view ofthe library.
    Ex: Wine lovers get the urge to splurge and celebrate, often in hoity-toity restaurants.
    Ex: It's the kind of barn where you can learn to ride without feeling mocked or like some hoity-toities are looking down their nose at you.
    Ex: Disaffected and literally unliterary pubescent readers were expected to be hooked by his high-flown style.

    * * *
    A ‹casa› pretentious, showy; ‹persona/película› pretentious
    B ( AmL) (vanidoso) vain
    * * *

    pretencioso
    ◊ -sa adjetivo ‹casa/película› pretentious

    pretencioso,-a adjetivo pretentious

    ' pretencioso' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    presuntuosa
    - presuntuoso
    - pretenciosa
    English:
    pretentious
    * * *
    pretencioso, -a
    ♦ adj
    pretentious
    ♦ nm,f
    pretentious person
    * * *
    adj pretentious
    * * *
    pretencioso, -sa adj
    : pretentious

    Spanish-English dictionary > pretencioso

  • 7 adicto al crack

    (n.) = crackhead, crackhead
    Ex. Actually to do something about a young crackhead fidgeting with a gun takes more than high-flown language -- it takes bravery.
    Ex. Actually to do something about a young crackhead fidgeting with a gun takes more than high-flown language -- it takes bravery.
    * * *
    (n.) = crackhead, crackhead

    Ex: Actually to do something about a young crackhead fidgeting with a gun takes more than high-flown language -- it takes bravery.

    Ex: Actually to do something about a young crackhead fidgeting with a gun takes more than high-flown language -- it takes bravery.

    Spanish-English dictionary > adicto al crack

  • 8 cursi

    adj.
    1 tacky(dress, song).
    2 prissy, affected, la-di-da, chichi.
    f. & m.
    affected person.
    * * *
    1 familiar (afectado) pretentious, affected, twee
    1 familiar pretentious person, affected person
    * * *
    1. ADJ
    1) [persona] (=amanerado) affected; (=remilgado) prissy; [en sus gustos] twee
    2) [objeto] twee
    2.
    SMF

    es una cursi — (=amanerada) she's so affected; (=niña remilgada) she's so prissy; [en sus gustos] she's so twee

    * * *
    I
    adjetivo (fam) < objeto> corny, twee (BrE); < idea> sentimental, twee (BrE); < decoración> chichi
    II
    masculino y femenino (fam)
    * * *
    = cutesy [cutesier -comp., cutesiest -sup.], prissy [prissier -comp., prissiest -sup.], stilted, high-flown, mushy [mushier -comp., mushiest -sup.].
    Ex. His prose, for instance, is repeatedly either too cutesy or too technical.
    Ex. It is especially important that the classroom not be dominated by a ' prissy' middle-class atmosphere.
    Ex. His eccentricity was stilted and contrived.
    Ex. Disaffected and literally unliterary pubescent readers were expected to be hooked by his high-flown style.
    Ex. However, these mushy words do little to reveal the refractory person uttering them.
    * * *
    I
    adjetivo (fam) < objeto> corny, twee (BrE); < idea> sentimental, twee (BrE); < decoración> chichi
    II
    masculino y femenino (fam)
    * * *
    = cutesy [cutesier -comp., cutesiest -sup.], prissy [prissier -comp., prissiest -sup.], stilted, high-flown, mushy [mushier -comp., mushiest -sup.].

    Ex: His prose, for instance, is repeatedly either too cutesy or too technical.

    Ex: It is especially important that the classroom not be dominated by a ' prissy' middle-class atmosphere.
    Ex: His eccentricity was stilted and contrived.
    Ex: Disaffected and literally unliterary pubescent readers were expected to be hooked by his high-flown style.
    Ex: However, these mushy words do little to reveal the refractory person uttering them.

    * * *
    ( fam):
    se cree muy elegante y refinada pero yo la encuentro cursi she thinks she's so chic and refined but she just seems affected to me
    sus ideas sobre el matrimonio son de lo más cursi her ideas on marriage are terribly romantic and sentimental, she has such twee ideas about marriage ( BrE)
    llevaba unos lacitos en el pelo de lo más cursi she was wearing some horribly prissy o ( AmE) cutesy o ( BrE) twee little ribbons in her hair
    tenía la casa decorada de la manera más cursi the decor in his house was terribly chichi o precious o fussy
    es muy cursilona she's terribly precious o affected o ( BrE) twee
    ( fam)
    es un cursi he's so affected o precious o ( BrE) twee
    * * *

     

    cursi adjetivo (fam) ‹ objeto› corny, twee (BrE);
    ‹ idea› sentimental, twee (BrE);
    ‹ decoración› chichi;
    ‹ persona› affected;
    ■ sustantivo masculino y femenino (fam):
    ◊ es un cursi he's so affected o (BrE) twee

    cursi adjetivo pey pretentious, affected

    ' cursi' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    repipi
    - siútico
    English:
    corny
    - genteel
    - twee
    * * *
    ♦ adj
    1. [vestido, canción] tacky, Br naff;
    se puso un sombrero muy cursi she put on this really tacky o Br naff hat;
    a mi abuela le gustan esas cortinas tan cursis my grandmother likes those twee curtains
    2. [modales, persona]
    es un escritor muy cursi he's such a corny writer;
    camina de una manera muy cursi she has a very affected way of walking;
    no seas cursi, cómete el plátano con las manos don't be so prissy, eat the banana with your hands
    ♦ nmf
    affected person;
    es un cursi he's so affected;
    no seas un cursi, cómete el plátano con las manos don't be so prissy, eat the banana with your hands
    * * *
    fam
    I adj persona affected
    II m/f
    :
    es un cursi he is so affected
    * * *
    cursi adj, fam : affected, pretentious
    * * *
    cursi adj twee

    Spanish-English dictionary > cursi

  • 9 campanudo

    adj.
    1 wide, puffed up, bell-shaped (clothes).
    2 high-flown; bombastic; windy.
    3 pompous (speech).
    * * *
    1 (forma de campana) bell-shaped
    2 (escrito, orador) pompous
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) [objeto] bell-shaped; [falda] wide, flared
    2) [estilo] high-flown, bombastic, windy *; [orador] pompous
    * * *
    1 ‹falda› bell-shaped, full
    2 ‹sonido› bell-like, resonant
    * * *
    campanudo, -a adj
    1. [acampanado] bell-shaped
    2. [grandilocuente] high-flown;
    retórica campanuda high-flown rhetoric
    * * *
    adj
    1 voz resonant
    2 persona pompous

    Spanish-English dictionary > campanudo

  • 10 altisonancia

    f.
    1 high-flown style; high-sounding nature.
    2 grandiloquence.
    * * *
    1 grandiloquence
    * * *
    * * *
    Ex. He is a man of few words being always difficult to get anything out of him at all and when he does speak it is with a total lack of bombast.
    * * *

    Ex: He is a man of few words being always difficult to get anything out of him at all and when he does speak it is with a total lack of bombast.

    * * *
    floridness

    Spanish-English dictionary > altisonancia

  • 11 adolescente

    adj.
    1 adolescent.
    2 immature, sophomoric, adolescent.
    f. & m.
    adolescent, teenager, teen, minor.
    * * *
    1 adolescent
    1 adolescent
    * * *
    1. adj.
    adolescent, teenage
    2. noun mf.
    adolescent, teenager
    * * *
    1.
    2.
    SMF (Med) adolescent; (=joven) teenager, teen (EEUU) *
    * * *
    I
    adjetivo adolescent
    II
    masculino y femenino ( en contextos no técnicos) teenager; (Med, Psic) adolescent
    * * *
    = adolescent, pubescent child, teen, teenage, teenager, young adult (YA), pubescent, teenage boy, teenaged.
    Ex. Funny stories are popular with pupils of all ages and horror is the most popular genre for adolescents.
    Ex. The book brings about together numerous ideas that preoccupy pubescent children.
    Ex. Studying the leisure reading preferences of teens can help library media specialists develop collections and programs that nurture a lifelong love of reading.
    Ex. Combine limit fields with other searches, e.g. 'FIND: anorexia and teenagers and py>=1985' retrieves articles on teenage anorexia published in or after 1985.
    Ex. Combine limit fields with other searches, e.g. 'FIND: anorexia and teenagers and py >=1985' retrieves articles on teenage anorexia published in or after 1985.
    Ex. In return, the young librarian took it upon himself to design an entire section of the second floor to be the domain of young adult.
    Ex. Disaffected and literally unliterary pubescent readers were expected to be hooked by his high-flown style.
    Ex. The copy was grubby from use, a paperback with a photographically realistic full-color painting on its cover of an early teenage boy slumped in what looked to me like a corner of a very dirty back alley, a can of Coke in his hand.
    Ex. Many of the teenaged runaways left home in search of freedom from what they considered abusive treatment, whether physical, sexual, or emotional.
    ----
    * embarazo de adolescentes = teenage pregnancy.
    * ficción para adolescentes = young adult fiction.
    * literatura para adolescentes = young adult fiction.
    * novela para adolescentes = adolescent romance.
    * * *
    I
    adjetivo adolescent
    II
    masculino y femenino ( en contextos no técnicos) teenager; (Med, Psic) adolescent
    * * *
    = adolescent, pubescent child, teen, teenage, teenager, young adult (YA), pubescent, teenage boy, teenaged.

    Ex: Funny stories are popular with pupils of all ages and horror is the most popular genre for adolescents.

    Ex: The book brings about together numerous ideas that preoccupy pubescent children.
    Ex: Studying the leisure reading preferences of teens can help library media specialists develop collections and programs that nurture a lifelong love of reading.
    Ex: Combine limit fields with other searches, e.g. 'FIND: anorexia and teenagers and py>=1985' retrieves articles on teenage anorexia published in or after 1985.
    Ex: Combine limit fields with other searches, e.g. 'FIND: anorexia and teenagers and py >=1985' retrieves articles on teenage anorexia published in or after 1985.
    Ex: In return, the young librarian took it upon himself to design an entire section of the second floor to be the domain of young adult.
    Ex: Disaffected and literally unliterary pubescent readers were expected to be hooked by his high-flown style.
    Ex: The copy was grubby from use, a paperback with a photographically realistic full-color painting on its cover of an early teenage boy slumped in what looked to me like a corner of a very dirty back alley, a can of Coke in his hand.
    Ex: Many of the teenaged runaways left home in search of freedom from what they considered abusive treatment, whether physical, sexual, or emotional.
    * embarazo de adolescentes = teenage pregnancy.
    * ficción para adolescentes = young adult fiction.
    * literatura para adolescentes = young adult fiction.
    * novela para adolescentes = adolescent romance.

    * * *
    adolescent
    tiene dos hijos adolescentes she has two teenage o adolescent children
    (en contextos no técnicos) teenager; ( Med, Psic) adolescent
    * * *

    adolescente adjetivo
    adolescent;
    ◊ tiene dos hijos adolescentes she has two teenage o adolescent children

    ■ sustantivo masculino y femenino ( en contextos no técnicos) teenager;

    (Med, Psic) adolescent
    adolescente adjetivo & mf adolescent
    ' adolescente' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    gallo
    - quinceañera
    - quinceañero
    English:
    adolescent
    - puppy love
    - teenage
    - teenager
    * * *
    ♦ adj
    adolescent;
    tienen un hijo adolescente they have a teenage son
    ♦ nmf
    adolescent, teenager;
    * * *
    I adj teenage atr, adolescent atr
    II m/f teenager, adolescent
    * * *
    : adolescent, teenage
    : adolescent, teenager
    * * *
    adolescente1 adj adolescent / teenage
    adolescente2 n adolescent / teenager
    de adolescente, solía... when I was a teenager I used to...

    Spanish-English dictionary > adolescente

  • 12 consciente de los deberes de Uno

    (adj.) = dutiful
    Ex. This struck me, in my prejudiced, dutiful mood, as somewhat high-flown.
    * * *
    (adj.) = dutiful

    Ex: This struck me, in my prejudiced, dutiful mood, as somewhat high-flown.

    Spanish-English dictionary > consciente de los deberes de Uno

  • 13 desafecto

    adj.
    disaffected.
    m.
    disaffection, ill will, enmity.
    pres.indicat.
    1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: desafectar.
    * * *
    1 disaffected, opposed
    1 lack of affection, coldness
    ————————
    1 lack of affection, coldness
    * * *
    1.
    2.
    * * *
    I
    - ta adjetivo

    desafecto a algo — opposed o hostile to something

    II
    masculino indifference
    * * *
    Ex. Disaffected and literally unliterary pubescent readers were expected to be hooked by his high-flown style.
    * * *
    I
    - ta adjetivo

    desafecto a algo — opposed o hostile to something

    II
    masculino indifference
    * * *

    Ex: Disaffected and literally unliterary pubescent readers were expected to be hooked by his high-flown style.

    * * *
    desafecto1 -ta
    desafecto A algo opposed o hostile TO sth
    indifference
    nos trató con desafecto he treated us coldly
    * * *
    desafecto, -a
    ♦ adj
    [opuesto] hostile (a to), disaffected (a with);
    sectores desafectos al régimen sectors hostile to the regime
    ♦ nm
    [falta de afecto, indiferencia]
    desafecto hacia o [m5] por algo indifference to o towards sth;
    desafecto hacia o [m5] por alguien coldness towards sb
    * * *
    I adj hostile (a to)
    II m disaffection

    Spanish-English dictionary > desafecto

  • 14 descontento

    adj.
    discontent, sad, discontented, displeased.
    m.
    dissatisfaction, discontentment, unhappiness, discontent.
    pres.indicat.
    1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: descontentar.
    * * *
    1 displeased, unhappy, dissatisfied, discontented
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 malcontent
    1 discontent, dissatisfaction
    ————————
    1 discontent, dissatisfaction
    * * *
    1. (f. - descontenta)
    adj.
    2. noun m.
    * * *
    descontento, -a
    1. ADJ
    1) (=insatisfecho) dissatisfied, discontented (de with)
    2) (=disgustado) disgruntled (de about, at)
    2.
    SM / F Méx malcontent
    3. SM
    1) (=insatisfacción) dissatisfaction
    2) (=disgusto) disgruntlement
    3) (Pol) discontent, unrest
    * * *
    I
    - ta adjetivo [estar] dissatisfied

    descontento con algo/alguien — unhappy o dissatisfied with something/somebody

    II
    masculino discontent
    * * *
    = dissatisfied, discontent, dissatisfaction, irritation, disgruntled, unrest, disaffected, disaffection, restlessness.
    Ex. If you are dissatisfied with your responses, go back and revise such parts of the text as you think fit.
    Ex. No one complained about Duff to her, and she decided not to probe for discontents.
    Ex. During her tenure as head of the EPA library, she dealt with the dissatisfaction with the national treatment of U.S. documents in a most constructive manner, by establishing the Government Documents Round Table (GODORT).
    Ex. Datto felt a wave of irritation engulf him, but he persevered, keeping his voice steady.
    Ex. The director of our public library hired as a page the daughter of a friend, who turned out to be unreliable and untrustworthy, and as a consequence had to handle a disgruntled head of circulation.
    Ex. The subjects referred to recur frequently in the writings of the 'socially committed' -- drugs, sex, racism, student unrest, riots, scandals in government, conservation, the role of women in society are among them.
    Ex. Disaffected and literally unliterary pubescent readers were expected to be hooked by his high-flown style.
    Ex. Further, there is evidence of publisher, author, and library user disaffection with the law of copyright.
    Ex. A five- to ten-fold increase of the soporific dose resulted in restlessness and disorientation instead of sleep.
    ----
    * descontento entre los trabajadores = industrial unrest.
    * descontento político = political unrest.
    * descontento social = civil unrest, social unrest.
    * estar descontento con = express + dissatisfaction with.
    * sentirse descontento con = experience + dissatisfaction with.
    * * *
    I
    - ta adjetivo [estar] dissatisfied

    descontento con algo/alguien — unhappy o dissatisfied with something/somebody

    II
    masculino discontent
    * * *
    = dissatisfied, discontent, dissatisfaction, irritation, disgruntled, unrest, disaffected, disaffection, restlessness.

    Ex: If you are dissatisfied with your responses, go back and revise such parts of the text as you think fit.

    Ex: No one complained about Duff to her, and she decided not to probe for discontents.
    Ex: During her tenure as head of the EPA library, she dealt with the dissatisfaction with the national treatment of U.S. documents in a most constructive manner, by establishing the Government Documents Round Table (GODORT).
    Ex: Datto felt a wave of irritation engulf him, but he persevered, keeping his voice steady.
    Ex: The director of our public library hired as a page the daughter of a friend, who turned out to be unreliable and untrustworthy, and as a consequence had to handle a disgruntled head of circulation.
    Ex: The subjects referred to recur frequently in the writings of the 'socially committed' -- drugs, sex, racism, student unrest, riots, scandals in government, conservation, the role of women in society are among them.
    Ex: Disaffected and literally unliterary pubescent readers were expected to be hooked by his high-flown style.
    Ex: Further, there is evidence of publisher, author, and library user disaffection with the law of copyright.
    Ex: A five- to ten-fold increase of the soporific dose resulted in restlessness and disorientation instead of sleep.
    * descontento entre los trabajadores = industrial unrest.
    * descontento político = political unrest.
    * descontento social = civil unrest, social unrest.
    * estar descontento con = express + dissatisfaction with.
    * sentirse descontento con = experience + dissatisfaction with.

    * * *
    [ ESTAR] dissatisfied descontento CON algo/algn unhappy WITH sth/sb, dissatisfied WITH sth/sb
    estoy descontento con los resultados I'm unhappy o dissatisfied with the results, I'm not at all happy with the results
    quedó descontento con lo que le di he wasn't satisfied o happy with what I gave him
    discontent
    manifestaron su descontento they made known their discontent o dissatisfaction, they let it be known that they were dissatisfied o unhappy
    * * *

    Del verbo descontentar: ( conjugate descontentar)

    descontento es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo

    descontentó es:

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) pretérito indicativo

    descontento 1
    ◊ -ta adjetivo [estar] dissatisfied;

    descontento con algo/algn unhappy o dissatisfied with sth/sb
    descontento 2 sustantivo masculino
    discontent
    descontento,-a
    I adjetivo unhappy, dissatisfied [con, with]
    II sustantivo masculino dissatisfaction

    ' descontento' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    agitación
    - conflictividad
    - descontenta
    - disimulado
    - insatisfecho
    English:
    discontent
    - discontented
    - dissatisfaction
    - dissatisfied
    - grunt
    - undercurrent
    - undertone
    - unhappiness
    - unhappy
    - unrest
    - disgruntled
    - frustrated
    * * *
    descontento, -a
    ♦ adj
    unhappy, dissatisfied;
    estar descontento con algo/alguien to be dissatisfied o unhappy with sth/sb;
    dijo estar descontento con la decisión de los tribunales he said he was unhappy with the court's decision
    ♦ nm
    dissatisfaction;
    los sindicatos expresaron su descontento con la nueva ley the unions expressed their dissatisfaction with the new law;
    entre la población cundió el descontento discontent was spreading among the population
    * * *
    I adj dissatisfied
    II m dissatisfaction
    * * *
    descontento, -ta adj
    : discontented, dissatisfied
    : discontent, dissatisfaction
    * * *
    descontento adj unhappy [comp. unhappier; superl. unhappiest] / dissatisfied

    Spanish-English dictionary > descontento

  • 15 entusiasmarse por

    (v.) = be enthusiastic about, become + enamoured of, get + hooked on, be hooked by, be enamoured of/with
    Ex. I'm less enthusiastic about this criticism of ISBD than I am in my endorsement of his stress on the importance of the main entry.
    Ex. Those who become enamored of reference librarianship and its challenges usually succumb to its lure before discovering all of its parts.
    Ex. When children get hooked on a particular author act as a stimulus to other children to read those books and authors to.
    Ex. Disaffected and literally unliterary pubescent readers were expected to be hooked by his high-flown style.
    Ex. This article investigates the perception that humanists are less than enamoured with technology when compared with their peers in other disciplines.
    * * *
    (v.) = be enthusiastic about, become + enamoured of, get + hooked on, be hooked by, be enamoured of/with

    Ex: I'm less enthusiastic about this criticism of ISBD than I am in my endorsement of his stress on the importance of the main entry.

    Ex: Those who become enamored of reference librarianship and its challenges usually succumb to its lure before discovering all of its parts.
    Ex: When children get hooked on a particular author act as a stimulus to other children to read those books and authors to.
    Ex: Disaffected and literally unliterary pubescent readers were expected to be hooked by his high-flown style.
    Ex: This article investigates the perception that humanists are less than enamoured with technology when compared with their peers in other disciplines.

    Spanish-English dictionary > entusiasmarse por

  • 16 juguetear con

    v.
    to fidget with, to fiddle with, to lark about with, to monkey around with.
    * * *
    (v.) = twiddle, toy with, fidget with, fuss with
    Ex. Meek took her glasses off and twiddled them as her supervisor related the following incident.
    Ex. The article is entitled 'Malays toying with Americans: the rare voices of Malay scribes in two Houghton Library manuscripts'.
    Ex. Actually to do something about a young crackhead fidgeting with a gun takes more than high-flown language -- it takes bravery.
    Ex. Editors are a bridge between the abstract writer and the printer: on the one hand they fuss with the content and intellectual quality of the abstract, and on the other hand they prepare copy that conforms to the constraints of the publishing world.
    * * *
    (v.) = twiddle, toy with, fidget with, fuss with

    Ex: Meek took her glasses off and twiddled them as her supervisor related the following incident.

    Ex: The article is entitled 'Malays toying with Americans: the rare voices of Malay scribes in two Houghton Library manuscripts'.
    Ex: Actually to do something about a young crackhead fidgeting with a gun takes more than high-flown language -- it takes bravery.
    Ex: Editors are a bridge between the abstract writer and the printer: on the one hand they fuss with the content and intellectual quality of the abstract, and on the other hand they prepare copy that conforms to the constraints of the publishing world.

    Spanish-English dictionary > juguetear con

  • 17 lleno de prejuicios

    (adj.) = prejudiced
    Ex. This struck me, in my prejudiced, dutiful mood, as somewhat high-flown.
    * * *
    (adj.) = prejudiced

    Ex: This struck me, in my prejudiced, dutiful mood, as somewhat high-flown.

    Spanish-English dictionary > lleno de prejuicios

  • 18 no literario

    adj.
    nonliterary, non-literary.
    * * *
    (adj.) = unliterary, non-literary
    Ex. Disaffected and literally unliterary pubescent readers were expected to be hooked by his high-flown style.
    Ex. It was one of those books we all are always looking for that rivets the attention of non-literary, reluctant readers as well as to literary readers.
    * * *
    (adj.) = unliterary, non-literary

    Ex: Disaffected and literally unliterary pubescent readers were expected to be hooked by his high-flown style.

    Ex: It was one of those books we all are always looking for that rivets the attention of non-literary, reluctant readers as well as to literary readers.

    Spanish-English dictionary > no literario

  • 19 pubescente

    adj.
    pubescent.
    f. & m.
    pubescent.
    * * *
    1 pubescent
    * * *
    * * *
    = pubescent child, pubescent, pubertal.
    Ex. The book brings about together numerous ideas that preoccupy pubescent children.
    Ex. Disaffected and literally unliterary pubescent readers were expected to be hooked by his high-flown style.
    Ex. Obese children who had lost weight substantially were compared to obese children without substantial weight loss matched for age, gender, and pubertal stage.
    * * *
    = pubescent child, pubescent, pubertal.

    Ex: The book brings about together numerous ideas that preoccupy pubescent children.

    Ex: Disaffected and literally unliterary pubescent readers were expected to be hooked by his high-flown style.
    Ex: Obese children who had lost weight substantially were compared to obese children without substantial weight loss matched for age, gender, and pubertal stage.

    * * *
    pubescent

    Spanish-English dictionary > pubescente

  • 20 ambicioso

    • acquisitive
    • ambitious
    • ambitious person
    • aspiring
    • avaricious
    • covetous
    • determined
    • emulous
    • go further into
    • go-getting
    • grab on to
    • grabbing
    • greedily
    • greedy method
    • high flyers
    • high frequency
    • high-flavored
    • high-flier
    • high-flown
    • high-flyer
    • highfalutin
    • highfaluting
    • highflyer
    • highhanded
    • materialistic
    • pusher engine
    • pushfulness

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > ambicioso

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  • High-flown — a. 1. Elevated; proud. High flown hopes. Denham. [1913 Webster] 2. Turgid; extravagant; bombastic; inflated; as, high flown language. M. Arnold. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • high-flown — adj high flown language sounds impressive but does not have much real meaning …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • high-flown — [ ,haı floun ] adjective high flown ideas or language sound very complicated or important but are often not very useful or practical …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • high-flown — high′ flown′ adj. 1) extravagant in aims, pretensions, etc 2) pretentiously lofty; bombastic: high flown oratory[/ex] • Etymology: 1640–50 …   From formal English to slang

  • high-flown — [hī′flōn′] adj. 1. extravagantly ambitious or aspiring 2. high sounding but meaningless; bombastic …   English World dictionary

  • high-flown — index flatulent, fustian, inflated (bombastic), orotund, turgid Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • high-flown — [adj] exalted, lofty bombastic, elaborate, exaggerated, extravagant, grandiloquent, grandiose, inflated, showy, turgid; concept 562 …   New thesaurus

  • high-flown — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ (especially of language) extravagant or grandiose …   English terms dictionary

  • 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 — ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n (disapproval) High flown language is very grand, formal, or literary. It is highly probable that many of the Service s personnel were put off by such high flown rhetoric …   English dictionary

  • high-flown — adjective Date: 1647 1. exceedingly or excessively high or favorable 2. having an excessively embellished or inflated character ; pretentious < high flown language > …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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