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Highfalutin is an English word with synonyms like grandiose or pretentious. Below you'll find 4 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Highfalutin in a sentence

Highfalutin meaning

Self-important, pompous; arrogant or egotistical.

Synonyms of Highfalutin

grandiose hifalutin highfaluting hoity-toity la-di-da pretentious

Related words

Other words often associated with Highfalutin or its synonyms:

impressive tasteless pontifical grandiloquent arty pompous ostentatious portentous overblown

Using Highfalutin

  • The main meaning on this page is: Self-important, pompous; arrogant or egotistical.
  • Useful related words include: grandiose, hifalutin, highfaluting, hoity-toity.

Context around Highfalutin

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 24.8 words
  • Position in the sentence: 0 start, 2 middle, 2 end
  • Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

seeking 1×

Often after:

sliver 1× thrills 1× fishing 1× moral 1×

Sentence patterns with Highfalutin

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

during a highfalutin fishing charter 1× in any highfalutin moral way 1× people seeking highfalutin thrills 1× to the highfalutin sliver of 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

i was told 1× plus they re 1×

Common sentence endings:

could actually write 1× seeking highfalutin thrills 1× three days before 1× ve always known 1×

Words around Highfalutin

Just before it in the word index:

highest 9.959 higherups 3 highertown 4 highers 10 higherlife 4 higher 19.184

Just after it in the word index:

highfather 2 highfield 36 highfields 9 highfill 3 highflying 3 highgate 30

Similar in corpus frequency:

aaaaand 6 aaah 6 aaargh 6 aacl 6 aadhi 6 aak 6

Corpus analysis for Highfalutin

  • In this selection, "highfalutin" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, seeking, sliver, thrills and fishing stand out and add context to how "highfalutin" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include during a highfalutin fishing charter and in any highfalutin moral way. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "highfalutin" sits close to words such as aaaaand, aaah and aaargh, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with highfalutin

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Plus, they're more fun and effective than overcrowded open house tours for unqualified people seeking highfalutin thrills. (18 words)

Or at least, didn’t seem worth writing about to the highfalutin sliver of the population that could actually write. (20 words)

I was told this piece, skin on and covered in ice, was plucked from the Gulf during a highfalutin fishing charter three days before. (24 words)

Longer example sentences

They're not about us getting smarter (though they cover that too) so much as they're about us getting better — but not in any highfalutin moral way, rather simply in the way we've always known. (37 words)

I was told this piece, skin on and covered in ice, was plucked from the Gulf during a highfalutin fishing charter three days before. (24 words)

Or at least, didn’t seem worth writing about to the highfalutin sliver of the population that could actually write. (20 words)

Example sentences (4)

Or at least, didn’t seem worth writing about to the highfalutin sliver of the population that could actually write.

Plus, they're more fun and effective than overcrowded open house tours for unqualified people seeking highfalutin thrills.

I was told this piece, skin on and covered in ice, was plucked from the Gulf during a highfalutin fishing charter three days before.

They're not about us getting smarter (though they cover that too) so much as they're about us getting better — but not in any highfalutin moral way, rather simply in the way we've always known.

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "highfalutin" in a sentence?
An example: "Or at least, didn’t seem worth writing about to the highfalutin sliver of the population that could actually write." This page contains 4 example sentences with the word "highfalutin" from authentic English texts.
What does "highfalutin" mean?
Highfalutin means: Self-important, pompous; arrogant or egotistical.
What are synonyms of "highfalutin"?
Common synonyms of "highfalutin" include: grandiose, hifalutin, highfaluting, hoity-toity, la-di-da, pretentious.
How many example sentences with "highfalutin" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 4 example sentences with "highfalutin", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.