high

high [-er, -est] adj

OE héah < Germanic, elevated.

1. Great; grand; important; of exalted rank.
2. Fancy; costly; eloquent; ostentatious.
3. Fine; excellent; super; top quality; upper class; [fig.] heavenly; exalted; dignified.
4. Hot; ardent; sultry; intense; extreme.
5. Loud; acute; sharp; accented; lofty in pitch; intense in musical tone.
6. Far above; upward in position; [fig.] elevated above mortal constraints.
7. Difficult; strenuous; inaccessible; out of reach.
8. Towering over; hovering above; elevated to a higher altitude than.
9. Phrase. “high up”: proud; haughty; arrogant; overbearing; presumptuous.

high [-er, -est] adv

see high, adj.

1. Greatly; eminently; powerfully.

high n

see high, adj.

1. Great; noble; honorable; exalted in status.
2. [Phrase] “on high”: aloft; [fig.] in heaven.