- altisonante
- adj.high-sounding.* * *altisonante► adjetivo1 grandiloquent, pompous* * *adjetivo highflown* * *= ringing, high-flown, bombastic.Ex. Some recent literature on higher education has attempted to reaffirm, with ringing rhetoric, the principle that the search for the truth is the foundation of academic ethics.Ex. Disaffected and literally unliterary pubescent readers were expected to be hooked by his high-flown style.Ex. You don't have to be bombastic to be powerful [he says in a loud voice], you can be more intimate [he says in a quieter voice].* * *adjetivo highflown* * *= ringing, high-flown, bombastic.
Ex: Some recent literature on higher education has attempted to reaffirm, with ringing rhetoric, the principle that the search for the truth is the foundation of academic ethics.
Ex: Disaffected and literally unliterary pubescent readers were expected to be hooked by his high-flown style.Ex: You don't have to be bombastic to be powerful [he says in a loud voice], you can be more intimate [he says in a quieter voice].* * *altisonanteadjectivehighflown* * *
altisonante adjetivo grandiloquent, high-sounding
'altisonante' also found in these entries:
English:
grandiose
- high
* * *altisonante, altísono, -a adjhigh-sounding* * *altisonanteadj high-flown* * *altisonante adj1) : pompous, affected (of language)2) Mex : rude, obscene (of language)
Spanish-English dictionary. 2013.