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high–sounding
adjective high–sound·ing \ˈhī-ˈsau̇n-diŋ\
: using words that are meant to sound important and impressive
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First Known Use of HIGH-SOUNDING
1711
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- aureate, florid, grandiloquent, highfalutin (also hifalutin), high-flown, high-sounding, magnific, ornate, purple, rhetorical (also rhetoric)
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