high-sounding : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: high-sounding	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for high-sounding
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
high-sounding adj 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" Synonym(s): high-flown, high- sounding, inflated
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
High-sounding \High"-sound`ing\, a. Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.