Word.ws English Dictionary

hifalutin

hifalutin is the alternative spelling of highfalutin.

Meaning of highfalutin

Adjective

highfalutin (comparative more highfalutin, superlative most highfalutin)

  1. (US, informal) Self-important, pompous; arrogant or egotistical.
    • It's only a matter of time before some highfalutin developer builds a huge hotel and ruins the scenery.

See all 2 meanings of highfalutin

Forms of hifalutin

comparativemore hifalutin
superlativemost hifalutin

Questions about hifalutin

What is hifalutin the alternative spelling of?
Hifalutin is the alternative spelling of highfalutin.

Words near hifalutin in the dictionary

  1. Hiester
  2. Hiesters
  3. Hiett
  4. Hietts
  5. HIF
  6. hifalutin
  7. hifalutin'
  8. hifaluting
  9. hiff
  10. hiffed
  11. hiffing

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hifalutin (page history and authors); highfalutin (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “hifalutin.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hifalutin. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.