Word Meanings - HIGH-MINDED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Proud; arrogant. Be not high-minded, but fear. Rom. xi. 20. 2. Having, or characterized by, honorable pride; of or pertaining to elevated principles and feelings; magnanimous; -- opposed to mean. High-minded, manly recognition of those truths.

Additional info about word: HIGH-MINDED

1. Proud; arrogant. Be not high-minded, but fear. Rom. xi. 20. 2. Having, or characterized by, honorable pride; of or pertaining to elevated principles and feelings; magnanimous; -- opposed to mean. High-minded, manly recognition of those truths. A. Norton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HIGH-MINDED)

• Chivalrous
• Courageous
• generous
• knightly
• gallant
• heroic
• adventurous
• valiant
• spirited
• handsome
• high-minded

Related words: (words related to HIGH-MINDED)

• SPIRITUOUS
  1. Having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial; spiritual; pure. 2. Containing, or of the nature of, alcoholic spirit; consisting of refined spirit; alcoholic; ardent;
• HIGH-MINDEDNESS
  The quality of being highminded; nobleness; magnanimity.
• GALLANTLY
  In a polite or courtly manner; like a gallant or wooer.
• SPIRITUALIZE
  To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit. (more info) 1. To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize
• SPIRITUOSITY
  The quality or state of being spirituous; spirituousness.
• HANDSOMELY
  Carefully; in shipshape style. (more info) 1. In a handsome manner.
• SPIRITUAL-MINDED
  Having the mind set on spiritual things, or filled with holy desires and affections. -- Spir"it*u*al-mind`ed*ness, n.
• ADVENTUROUSNESS
  The quality or state of being adventurous; daring; venturesomeness.
• SPIRITISM
  Spiritualsm.
• SPIRIT
  Rum, whisky, brandy, gin, and other distilled liquors having much alcohol, in distinction from wine and malt liquors. (more info) 1. Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself. "All of spirit would deprive." Spenser.
• CHIVALROUSLY
  In a chivalrous manner; gallantly; magnanimously.
• SPIRITUALISTIC
  Relating to, or connected with, spiritualism.
• SPIRITUOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being spirituous. Boyle.
• COURAGEOUSLY
  In a courageous manner.
• HIGH-MINDED
  1. Proud; arrogant. Be not high-minded, but fear. Rom. xi. 20. 2. Having, or characterized by, honorable pride; of or pertaining to elevated principles and feelings; magnanimous; -- opposed to mean. High-minded, manly recognition of those truths.
• HANDSOMENESS
  The quality of being handsome. Handsomeness is the mere animal excellence, beauty the mere imaginative. Hare.
• SPIRITUAL
  1. Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal; as, a spiritual substance or being. It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. 1 Cor. xv.
• GALLANTNESS
  The quality of being gallant.
• SPIRITOUS
  1. Like spirit; refined; defecated; pure. More refined, more spirituous and pure. Milton. 2. Ardent; active.
• GENEROUS
  noble, excellent, magnanimous, fr. genus birth, race: cf. It. 1. Of honorable birth or origin; highborn. The generous and gravest citizens. Shak. 2. Exhibiting those qualities which are popularly reregarded as belonging to high birth;
• PUBLIC-SPIRITED
  1. Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men. 2. Dictated by a regard to public good; as, a public-spirited project or measure. Addison. -- Pub"lic-spir`it*ed*ly,
• DISPIRITED
  Depressed in spirits; disheartened; daunted. -- Dis*pir"it*ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*pir"it*ed, n.
• CONGENEROUS
  Allied in origin or cause; congeneric; as, congenerous diseases. Sir T. Browne. -- Con*gen"er*ous*ness, n. Hallywell.
• DISSPIRIT
  See DISPIRIT
• UNGENEROUSLY
  In an ungenerous manner.
• POT-VALIANT
  Having the courage given by drink. Smollett.
• DEGENEROUSLY
  Basely.