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| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
high-sounding |
| ADJECTIVE: | Characterized by language that is elevated and sometimes pompous in style: aureate, bombastic, declamatory, flowery, fustian, grandiloquent, high-flown, magniloquent, orotund, overblown, rhetorical, sonorous, swollen. See PLAIN, STYLE, WORDS. |
| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. Copyright © 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | |
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