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high-flown

 
Adjective high-flown has 2 senses
  1. high-flown, high-sounding, inflated - 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"
    Antonym: unpretentious (indirect, via pretentious)
  2. exalted, high-flown, high-minded, lofty, rarefied, rarified, idealistic, noble-minded - of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style; "an exalted ideal"; "argue in terms of high-flown ideals"- Oliver Franks; "a noble and lofty concept"
    Antonym: ignoble (indirect, via noble)
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