highfalutin

highfalutin
    adj 1: affectedly genteel [syn: {grandiose}, {hifalutin},
           {highfalutin}, {highfaluting}, {hoity-toity}, {la-di-da}]
    

highfalutin \highfalutin\ highfaluting \highfaluting\
highfalutin' \highfalutin'\adj.
   Affectedly genteel; pretentious; haughty; snobbish. [Written
   also {hifalutin}.] [informal]

   Syn: grandiose, hifalutin, hoity-toity, la-di-da.
        [WordNet 1.5] highfalutin
    

highfalutin \high`fa*lu"tin\, highfaluting \high`fa*lu"ting\, n.
   [Perh. a corruption of highflighting.]
   High-flown, bombastic language. [Written also {hifalutin}.]
   [Jocular, U. S.] --Lowell.
   [1913 Webster]
    

94 Moby Thesaurus words for "highfalutin":
      Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, ambitious, arrogant, aureate,
      bedizened, big, big-sounding, bombastic, classy, condescending,
      convoluted, declamatory, domineering, elevated, euphuistic,
      extravagant, fancy, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flaunting, florid,
      flossy, flowery, fulsome, fustian, garish, gassy, gaudy,
      grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, haughty, high,
      high-faluting, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-headed,
      high-minded, high-nosed, high-sounding, high-swelling, high-toned,
      highfaluting, hoity-toity, inflated, inkhorn, labyrinthine,
      lexiphanic, lexiphanicism, lofty, lurid, magniloquent,
      meretricious, oratorical, orotund, ostentatious, overbearing,
      overdone, overelaborate, overinvolved, overwrought, patronizing,
      pedantic, pompous, pretentious, proud, purse-proud, rant, rhapsody,
      rhetoric, rhetorical, rodomontade, sensational, sensationalistic,
      sententious, showy, sonorous, stilted, stuck-up, superior, swollen,
      tall, tony, toplofty, tortuous, uppish, uppity, upstage, vaunting,
      windy