" highfalutin "

1: full of fine words and fancy expressions;

  * e.g., " ... his highfalutin paean to the working class failed to win over a crowd that wanted to hear down-to-earth proposals for economic relief "

•  Synonyms : 

•  aureate,

•  florid,

•  flowery,

•  grandiloquent,

•  high-flown,

•  high-sounding,

•  magnific,

•  ornate,

•  purple,

•  rhetorical

•  Antonyms : 

•  humble,

•  lowly,

•  modest,

•  unarrogant,

•  unpretentious

2: having a feeling of superiority that shows itself in an overbearing attitude;

  * e.g., " ... her highfalutin relatives from New York made the snide remark that her little house has that lived-in look "

•  Synonyms : 

•  arrogant,

•  assumptive,

•  bumptious,

•  cavalier,

•  chesty,

•  haughty,

•  high-and-mighty,

•  high-handed,

•  high-hat,

•  huffish,

•  huffy,

•  imperious,

•  important,

•  lofty,

•  lordly,

•  masterful,

•  overweening,

•  peremptory,

•  pompous,

•  presuming,

•  presumptuous,

•  pretentious,

•  self-asserting,

•  self-assertive,

•  sniffy,

•  stiff-necked,

•  supercilious,

•  superior,

•  toplofty,

•  uppish,

•  uppity

•  Antonyms : 

•  humble,

•  lowly,

•  modest

3: having or displaying feelings of scorn for what is regarded as beneath oneself;

  * e.g., " ... refused to be intimidated by the highfalutin manner of the sales staff in the fashionable boutique "

•  Synonyms : 

•  disdainful,

•  haughty,

•  lofty,

•  lordly,

•  prideful,

•  proud,

•  superior

•  Antonyms : 

•  modest,

•  unpretentious