Word Meanings - HIGH - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To hie. Men must high them apace, and make haste. Holland.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HIGH)
- Capital
- Chief
- excellent
- important
- cardinal
- principal
- consummate
- high
- Fine
- Thin
- minute
- slender
- delicate
- pure
- smooth
- filmy
- gauzy
- keen
- artistic
- choice
- finished
- Grand
- noble
- sensitive
- refined
- generous
- honorable
- superior
- pretty
- beautiful
- showy
- elegant
- ostentatious
- presumptuous
- nice
- casuistical
- subtle
- Finished
- Artistic
- perfect
- Lofty
- Elevated
- towering
- dignified
- eminent
- stately
- haughty
- majestic
- airy
- tall
- Sublime
- Raised
- exalted
- lofty
- elevated
- grand
- glorious
- magnificent
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of HIGH)
Related words: (words related to HIGH)
- MAGNIFICENTLY
In a Magnificent manner. - PRINCIPALNESS
The quality of being principal. - SMOOTHEN
To make smooth. - CHIEFLESS
Without a chief or leader. - CONSUMMATELY
In a consummate manner; completely. T. Warton. - CHOICE
1. Worthly of being chosen or preferred; select; superior; precious; valuable. My choicest hours of life are lost. Swift. 2. Preserving or using with care, as valuable; frugal; -- used with of; as, to be choice of time, or of money. 3. Selected - BEAUTIFUL
Having the qualities which constitute beauty; pleasing to the sight or the mind. A circle is more beautiful than a square; a square is more beautiful than a parallelogram. Lord Kames. Syn. -- Handsome; elegant; lovely; fair; charming; graceful; - GRANDEUR
The state or quality of being grand; vastness; greatness; splendor; magnificence; stateliness; sublimity; dignity; elevation of thought or expression; nobility of action. Nor doth this grandeur and majestic show Of luxury . . . allure mine eye. - SENSITIVE
1. Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul. 2. Having quick and acute sensibility, either to the action of external objects, or to impressions upon the - PRINCIPALITY
preëminence, excellence: cf. F. principalité, principauté. See 1. Sovereignty; supreme power; hence, superiority; predominance; high, or the highest, station. Sir P. Sidney. Your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory. - SMOOTHNESS
Quality or state of being smooth. - HONORABLE
1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an - BAFFLE
1. To practice deceit. Barrow. 2. To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds. - GRANDEESHIP
The rank or estate of a grandee; lordship. H. Swinburne. - FINISHER
1. One who finishes, puts an end to, completes, or perfects; esp. used in the trades, as in hatting, weaving, etc., for the workman who gives a finishing touch to the work, or any part of it, and brings it to perfection. O prophet of glad tidings, - PERFECT
Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; -- said of flower. Perfect cadence , a complete and satisfactory close in harmony, as upon the tonic preceded by the dominant. -- Perfect chord , a concord or union of sounds which is perfectly - GRANDMA; GRANDMAMMA
A grand mother. - SMOOTH
1. The act of making smooth; a stroke which smooths. Thackeray. 2. That which is smooth; the smooth part of anything. "The smooth of his neck." Gen. xxvii. 16. - CHOICELY
1. With care in choosing; with nice regard to preference. "A band of men collected choicely, from each county some." Shak. 2. In a preferable or excellent manner; excellently; eminently. "Choicely good." Walton. - RAISE
To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them. - APPRAISER
One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates. - LIVRAISON
A part of a book or literary composition printed and delivered by itself; a number; a part. - HEBRAIST
One versed in the Hebrew language and learning. - MISRAISE
To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall. - PRAISEWORTHINESS
The quality or state of being praiseworthy. - PREFINE
To limit beforehand. Knolles. - KERCHIEF
couvrechef, F. couvrechef, a head covering, fr. couvrir to cover + 1. A square of fine linen worn by women as a covering for the head; hence, anything similar in form or material, worn for ornament on other parts of the person; -- mostly used in - GREAT-GRANDFATHER
The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.