high-flown
adjective
[ ˌhʌɪˈfləʊn ]
• (especially of language or ideas) extravagant and grand-sounding.
• "he had other more high-flown artistic notions in mind"
Similar:
grand-sounding,
high-sounding,
extravagant,
exaggerated,
elaborate,
flowery,
florid,
ornate,
overblown,
overdone,
overripe,
overwrought,
grandiloquent,
magniloquent,
grandiose,
lofty,
rhetorical,
oratorical,
verbose,
inflated,
affected,
pretentious,
turgid,
bombastic,
declamatory,
windy,
purple,
highfalutin,
la-di-da,
fustian,
euphuistic,
orotund,
tumid,
