Usually means: Loud, high-sounding; lofty, pompous language.
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  7. altisonant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Altisonant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. altisonant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. altisonant: FreeDictionary.org
  11. altisonant: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
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▸ adjective:  (archaic) High-sounding; lofty or pompous.

Similar:
high-sounding, high-blown, high-stomached, altitudinous, highfalooting, declamatory, highfalutin, grandiloquous, altivolant, high-falutin', more...

Opposite:
unpretentious, humble, modest

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Similar:
high-sounding, high-blown, high-stomached, altitudinous, highfalooting, declamatory, highfalutin, grandiloquous, altivolant, high-falutin', more...

Opposite:
unpretentious, humble, modest



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