highfalutin

English - Turkish

Definition of highfalutin in English Turkish dictionary

şatafatlı

dili tumturaklı

Related Terms

highfaluting

şatafatlı

highfaluting

{s} tumturaklı (üslup)

highfaluting

(sıfat) tumturaklı (üslup)

English - English

Definition of highfalutin in English English dictionary

Self-important, pompous; arrogant or egotistical; tending to show off or hold oneself in unduly high regard

It's only a matter of time before some highfalutin developer builds a huge hotel and ruins the scenery.

{s} pompous, full of self-importance

disapproval People sometimes use highfalutin to describe something that they think is being made to sound complicated or important in order to impress people. This isn't highfalutin art-about-art. It's marvellous and adventurous stuff. = pretentious. highfalutin language or behaviour seems silly although it is intended to be impressive - used to show disapproval (high + falutin, perhaps from fluting )

affectedly genteel

Self-important; arrogant or egotistical; tending to show off or hold oneself in unduly high regard

Related Terms

highfaluting

High-flown, bombastic language

highfaluting

{i} bombastic language, pompous talk

highfaluting

pompous, bombastic

highfaluting

{s} pompous, pretentious; unnaturally well-mannered; grandiose, highfalutin

highfaluting

pretentious

highfaluting

haughty

Hyphenation

high·fa·lu·tin

Turkish pronunciation

hayfılutîn

Synonyms

hoity-toity, arrogant, boastful, conceited, flaunting, grandiose, high and mighty, important, lofty, ostentatious, overbearing, presumptuous, pretentious, puffed up, puffy

Pronunciation

/ˌhīfəˈlo͞otən/ /ˌhaɪfəˈluːtɪn/

Etymology

() In his book, The Adventure of English, Melvyn Bragg records that in a nascent America, when the well-to-do travelled by steamboat, said passengers were referred to as highfalutin due to the high fluted funnels on the boats. Compare riffraff.