Word Meanings - HIGH-SOUNDING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HIGH-SOUNDING)

• Declamatory
• Loud
• noisy
• incoherent
• discursive
• loose
• inconsecutive
• grandiloquent
• rhetorical
• high-sounding
• Sonorous
• Resonant
• louc'audible audible
• ringing
• clear
• trumpetlike

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of HIGH-SOUNDING)

• Tie
• fasten
• hold
• retain

Related words: (words related to HIGH-SOUNDING)

• RINGWORM
  A contagious affection of the skin due to the presence of a vegetable parasite, and forming ring-shaped discolored patches covered with vesicles or powdery scales. It occurs either on the body, the face, or the scalp. Different varieties
• HIGH-SOUNDING
  Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• CLEARER
  A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, clears. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding. Addison.
• RINGHEAD
  An instrument used for stretching woolen cloth.
• RINGLEADER
  1. The leader of a circle of dancers; hence, the leader of a number of persons acting together; the leader of a herd of animals. A primacy of order, such an one as the ringleader hath in a dance. Barrow. 2. Opprobriously, a leader of a body of
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• RING ARMATURE
  An armature for a dynamo or motor having the conductors wound on a ring.
• FASTENER
  One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.
• AUDIBLE
  Capable of being heard; loud enough to be heard; actually heard; as, an audible voice or whisper.
• RINGER
  A crowbar. Simmonds. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, rings; especially, one who rings chimes on bells.
• CLEAR-HEADED
  Having a clear understanding; quick of perception; intelligent. "He was laborious and clear-headed." Macaulay. -- Clear"-head`ed*ness, n.
• GRANDILOQUENT
  Speaking in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic.
• RINGTOSS
  A game in which the object is to toss a ring so that it will catch upon an upright stick.
• AUDIBLENESS
  The quality of being audible.
• RESONANT
  Returning, or capable of returning, sound; fitted to resound; resounding; echoing back. Through every hour of the golden morning, the streets were resonant with female parties of young and old. De Quincey.
• RINGING
  a & n. from Ring, v. Ringing engine, a simple form of pile driver in which the monkey is lifted by men pulling on ropes.
• RINGBILL
  The ring-necked scaup duck; -- called also ring-billed blackhead. See Scaup.
• RING WINDING
  Armature winding in which the wire is wound round the outer and inner surfaces alternately of an annular or cylindrical core.
• CLEAR-SIGHTEDNESS
  Acute discernment.
• WRINGING
  a. & n. from Wring, v. Wringing machine, a wringer. See Wringer, 2.
• SYRINGOCOELE
  The central canal of the spinal cord. B. G. Wilder.
• SUSURRINGLY
  In the manner of a whisper.
• NIGHT-FARING
  Going or traveling in the night. Gay.
• DISAPPEARING
  p. pr. & vb. n. of Disappear. Disappearing carriage , a carriage for heavy coast guns on which the gun is raised above the parapet for firing and upon discharge is lowered behind the parapet for protection. The standard type of disappearing
• WEATHERING
  The action of the elements on a rock in altering its color, texture, or composition, or in rounding off its edges.
• GEER; GEERING
  See GEARING
• PORRINGER
  A porridge dish; esp., a bowl or cup from which children eat or are fed; as, a silver porringer. Wordsworth.
• NAVEL-STRING
  The umbilical cord.
• TWITTERING
  1. The act of one who, or that which, twitters. 2. A slight nervous excitement or agitation, such as is caused by desire, expectation, or suspense. A widow, who had a twittering towards a second husband, took a gossiping companion to manage the
• BURRING MACHINE
  A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.
• CHAMBERING
  Lewdness. Rom. xiii. 13.
• EMBERINGS
  Ember days.
• LUMBERING
  The business of cutting or getting timber or logs from the forest for lumber.
• ENCORPORING
  Incorporation. Chaucer.
• SPRINGBOARD
  An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising.
• THURINGIAN
  Of or pertaining to Thuringia, a country in Germany, or its people. -- n.