Highfalutin
Highfalutin adjective - Having a feeling of superiority that shows itself in an overbearing attitude.
Usage example: her highfalutin relatives from New York made the snide remark that her little house “has that lived-in look”
Lordly and highfalutin are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Lordly" instead an adjective "Highfalutin".
Lordly
Lordly adjective - Having a feeling of superiority that shows itself in an overbearing attitude.
Usage example: one dinner guest was a little lordly about her status as a vegetarian, even asking the other diners how they could bear to eat dead animals
Highfalutin and lordly are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Highfalutin" instead an adjective "Lordly".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- affected and highfalutin
- affected and lordly
- lofty and highfalutin
- lofty and lordly
- ostentatious and highfalutin
- ostentatious and lordly
- overbearing and highfalutin
- overbearing and lordly
- haughty and highfalutin
- haughty and lordly
- pretentious and highfalutin
- pretentious and lordly
- grandiose and highfalutin
- grandiose and lordly
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