high
high [-er, -est] adj
OE héah < Germanic, elevated.
- Great; grand; important; of exalted rank.
- Fancy; costly; eloquent; ostentatious.
- Fine; excellent; super; top quality; upper class; [fig.] heavenly; exalted; dignified.
- Hot; ardent; sultry; intense; extreme.
- Loud; acute; sharp; accented; lofty in pitch; intense in musical tone.
- Far above; upward in position; [fig.] elevated above mortal constraints.
- Difficult; strenuous; inaccessible; out of reach.
- Towering over; hovering above; elevated to a higher altitude than.
- Phrase. “high up”: proud; haughty; arrogant; overbearing; presumptuous.
high [-er, -est] adv
see high, adj.
- Greatly; eminently; powerfully.
high n
see high, adj.
- Great; noble; honorable; exalted in status.
- [Phrase] “on high”: aloft; [fig.] in heaven.