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HIGH-SOUNDING Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of HIGH-SOUNDING is pompous, imposing. How to use high-sounding in a sentence.
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HIGH-SOUNDING Synonyms: 47 Similar and Opposite Words
Synonyms for HIGH-SOUNDING: rhetoric, rhetorical, ornate, purple, grandiloquent, flowery, hifalutin, eloquent; Antonyms of HIGH-SOUNDING: ...
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125 Synonyms & Antonyms for HIGH-SOUNDING | Thesaurus.com
high-sounding · aureate · bombastic · booming · declamatory · flowery · full-voiced · fustian · grandiloquent · high-flown · loud · loud-voiced · magniloquent ...
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high-sounding
ˈhigh-ˌsounding, a. 1. Emitting a high or loud sound; highly sonorous.1560 Bible (Genev.) Ps. cl. 5 Praise ye him with high sounding cymbals. 1717 Fenton Poems 212 (Jod.) When his highsounding lyre his valour rais'd. 1784 Cowper Task v. 681 Ah, tinkling cymbal and high-sounding brass, Smitten in vai...
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HIGH-SOUNDING definition in American English - Collins Dictionary
You can use high-sounding to describe language and ideas which seem very grand and important, especially when you think they are not really important.
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high-sounding, adj. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English ...
The earliest known use of the adjective high-sounding is in the mid 1500s. OED's earliest evidence for high-sounding is from 1560, in the Bible and Holy ...
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high-soundingadj (of language, etc) pretentious; high-flown (指语言等)夸张的, 言过其实的.
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High-sounding - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms - Vocabulary.com
adjective pretentious (especially with regard to language or ideals) “a high-sounding dissertation on the means to attain social revolution”
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HIGH-SOUNDING - 101 Synonyms and Antonyms
Synonyms ... pretentious ... extravagant ... inflated ... high-flying ... pompous ... florid ... flowery ... sententious ... exaggerated ... flamboyant ... high-flown ... lofty.
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high-sounding adjective - Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
(often disapproving) (of language or ideas) complicated and intended to sound important synonym pretentious
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high-sounding | Dictionaries and vocabulary tools for ... - Wordsmyth
part of speech: · adjective · definition: imposing or impressive-sounding but pretentious. a high-sounding vocabulary. related words: · big, superlative.
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high-sounding - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
high-sounding (comparative more high-sounding, superlative most high-sounding). Having an elevated or moralistic tone; pompous.
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Depth sounding
Depth sounding, often simply called sounding, is measuring the depth of a body of water. The first practical fathometer (literally "fathom measurer"), which determined water depth by measuring the time required for an echo to return from a high-pitched
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Echo sounding
For high accuracy depths, usually restricted to special purpose or scientific surveys, a sensor may be lowered to measure the temperature, pressure and of hydrographic echosounders are dual frequency, meaning that a low frequency pulse (typically around 24 kHz) can be transmitted at the same time as a high
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Ionospheric sounding
In telecommunication and radio science, an ionospheric sounding is a technique that provides real-time data on high-frequency ionospheric-dependent radio Vertical incident sounding uses a collocated transmitter and receiver and involves directing a range of frequencies vertically to the ionosphere and measuring
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