high | (adjective) (literal meaning) being at or having a relatively great or specific elevation or upward extension (sometimes used in combinations like `knee-high') | - |
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(adjective) greater than normal in quantity or amount | - |
(adjective) used of sounds and voices; high in pitch or frequency | Synonyms: high-pitched |
(adjective) happy and excited and energetic | Synonyms: in high spirits |
(adjective) slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug (especially marijuana) | Synonyms: mellow |
(adjective) (used of the smell of meat) smelling spoiled or tainted | Synonyms: gamey, gamy |
(adjective) standing above others in quality or position | Synonyms: eminent |
(noun) a forward gear with a gear ratio that gives the greatest vehicle velocity for a given engine speed | Synonyms: high gear |
(noun) a lofty level or position or degree | - |
(noun) a public secondary school usually including grades 9 through 12 | Synonyms: high school, highschool, senior high, senior high school |
(noun) a high place | Synonyms: heights |
(noun) an air mass of higher than normal pressure | - |
(noun) a state of altered consciousness induced by alcohol or narcotics | - |
(noun) a state of sustained elation | - |
(adverb) at a great altitude | Synonyms: high up |
(adverb) far up toward the source | - |
(adverb) in or to a high position, amount, or degree | - |
(adverb) in a rich manner | Synonyms: luxuriously, richly |
highball | (noun) a mixed drink made of alcoholic liquor mixed with water or a carbonated beverage and served in a tall glass | - |
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highbinder | (noun) a corrupt politician | - |
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highboard | (noun) a high diving board | - |
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highborn | (adjective) belonging to the peerage | Synonyms: coroneted, titled |
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highboy | (noun) a tall chest of drawers divided into two sections and supported on four legs | Synonyms: tallboy |
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highbrow | (adjective) highly cultured or educated | Synonyms: highbrowed |
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(noun) a person of intellectual or erudite tastes | - |
highbrowed | (adjective) highly cultured or educated | Synonyms: highbrow |
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highchair | (noun) a chair for feeding a very young child; has four long legs and a footrest and a detachable tray | Synonyms: feeding chair |
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higher | (adjective) of education beyond the secondary level | - |
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(adjective) advanced in complexity or elaboration | - |
highfalutin | (adjective) affectedly genteel; to carry an air of affected importance; to be snobbish and haughty | Synonyms: grandiose, hifalutin, highfaluting, hoity-toity, la-di-da |
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highfaluting | (adjective) affectedly genteel; to carry an air of affected importance; to be snobbish and haughty | Synonyms: grandiose, hifalutin, highfalutin, hoity-toity, la-di-da |
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highflier | (noun) a person of great ability and ambition | Synonyms: highflyer |
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highflyer | (noun) a person of great ability and ambition | Synonyms: highflier |
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highflying | (adjective) moving upward or along at a considerable height | - |
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(adjective) extravagant or ambitious or extreme in aims or opinions | - |
highjack | (noun) seizure of a vehicle in transit either to rob it or divert it to an alternate destination | Synonyms: hijack |
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(verb) take arbitrarily or by force | Synonyms: commandeer, hijack, pirate |
highjacker | (noun) a holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it | Synonyms: highwayman, hijacker, road agent |
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(noun) someone who uses force to take over a vehicle (especially an airplane) in order to reach an alternative destination | Synonyms: hijacker |
highjacking | (noun) robbery of a traveller or vehicle in transit or seizing control of a vehicle by the use of force | Synonyms: hijacking |
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highland | (adjective) used of high or hilly country | Synonyms: upland |
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(noun) elevated (e.g., mountainous) land | Synonyms: upland |
highlife | (noun) the activity of excessive spending | Synonyms: extravagance, high life, lavishness, prodigality |
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highlight | (noun) an area of lightness in a picture | Synonyms: highlighting |
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(noun) the most interesting or memorable part | Synonyms: high spot |
(verb) apply a highlighter to one's cheeks or eyebrows in order to make them more prominent | - |
(verb) move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent | Synonyms: foreground, play up, spotlight |
highlighter | (noun) a fluorescent marker used to mark important passages in a text | - |
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(noun) a cosmetic used to highlight the eyes or cheekbones | - |
highlighting | (noun) an area of lightness in a picture | Synonyms: highlight |
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highly | (adverb) in a high position or level or rank | - |
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(adverb) to a high degree or extent; favorably or with much respect | Synonyms: extremely |
(adverb) at a high rate or wage | - |
highness | (noun) the quality of being high or lofty | Synonyms: loftiness |
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(noun) a high degree (of amount or force etc.) | - |
highroad | (noun) a highway | Synonyms: trunk road |
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highschool | (noun) a public secondary school usually including grades 9 through 12 | Synonyms: high, high school, senior high, senior high school |
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hightail | (verb) retreat at full speed | Synonyms: high-tail |
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highwater | (noun) the tide when the water is highest | Synonyms: high tide, high water |
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highway | (noun) a major road for any form of motor transport | Synonyms: main road |
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highwayman | (noun) a holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it | Synonyms: highjacker, hijacker, road agent |
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