"high-sounding" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more high-sounding",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most high-sounding",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "high-sounding (comparative more high-sounding, superlative most high-sounding)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "92 8",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1940 December, “\"Rail Fan\" Trips in the U.S.A.”, in Railway Magazine, page 652",
          "text": "The fourth picture represents a trip over the New York, Ontario and Western Railway—one of the many relatively small independent lines which still operates in the United States, with a typically high-sounding title, for the system concerned, though it taps Lake Ontario, does not touch New York (though it lies partly in New York State), and is confined entirely to the Eastern States.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having an elevated or moralistic tone; pompous."
      ],
      "id": "en-high-sounding-en-adj-3w24fc32",
      "links": [
        [
          "elevated",
          "elevated"
        ],
        [
          "moralistic",
          "moralistic"
        ],
        [
          "tone",
          "tone"
        ],
        [
          "pompous",
          "pompous"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Oratorial, sometimes to the point of sounding contrived."
      ],
      "id": "en-high-sounding-en-adj-JDv3UXgO",
      "links": [
        [
          "Oratorial",
          "oratorial"
        ],
        [
          "contrived",
          "contrived"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "high-sounding"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more high-sounding",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most high-sounding",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "high-sounding (comparative more high-sounding, superlative most high-sounding)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1940 December, “\"Rail Fan\" Trips in the U.S.A.”, in Railway Magazine, page 652",
          "text": "The fourth picture represents a trip over the New York, Ontario and Western Railway—one of the many relatively small independent lines which still operates in the United States, with a typically high-sounding title, for the system concerned, though it taps Lake Ontario, does not touch New York (though it lies partly in New York State), and is confined entirely to the Eastern States.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having an elevated or moralistic tone; pompous."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "elevated",
          "elevated"
        ],
        [
          "moralistic",
          "moralistic"
        ],
        [
          "tone",
          "tone"
        ],
        [
          "pompous",
          "pompous"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Oratorial, sometimes to the point of sounding contrived."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Oratorial",
          "oratorial"
        ],
        [
          "contrived",
          "contrived"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "high-sounding"
}