high-sounding

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Adjective high-sounding has 1 sense

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)

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