HIGHFALUTINGS Synonyms

• marked by complexity and richness of detail

• developed or executed with care and in minute detail

• add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing

• produce from basic elements or sources; change into a more developed product

• make more complex, intricate, or richer

• work out in detail

• unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings

• recklessly wasteful

• elaborately or excessively ornamented

• inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life

• of or relating to or suggestive of flowers

• marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details

• impressive because of unnecessary largeness or grandeur; used to show disapproval

• affectedly genteel; to carry an air of affected importance; to be snobbish and haughty

• enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness

• pretentious (especially with regard to language or ideals)

• lofty in style

• ostentatiously lofty in style

• (of sounds) full and rich

• intended to attract notice and impress others

• (of a display) tawdry or vulgar

• characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display

• puffed up with vanity

• making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction

• intended to attract notice and impress others

• (of a display) tawdry or vulgar

• ostentatiously lofty in style

• abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas

• using or containing too many words