high
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kewk-
Proto-Indo-European *kówk-o-s
Proto-Germanic *hauhaz
Proto-West Germanic *hauh
Old English hēah
Middle English heigh
English high
From Middle English high, heigh, heih, from Old English hēah (“high, tall, lofty, high-class, exalted, sublime, illustrious, important, proud, haughty, deep, right”), from Proto-West Germanic *hauh (“high”), from Proto-Germanic *hauhaz (“high”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewk- (“to bend; crooked”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots heich (“high”), Yola heegh, heigh, heighe, hia, hie (“high”), North Frisian hoog, huuch (“high”), Saterland Frisian hooch, hoog (“high”), West Frisian heech (“high”), Alemannic German hooch (“high”), Central Franconian huh (“high”), Cimbrian hoach, hòach (“high”), Dutch hoog (“high”), German hoch (“high”), German Low German hooch (“high”), Limburgish hoeg (“high”), Luxembourgish héich (“high”), Mòcheno heach (“high”), Vilamovian huch (“high”), Yiddish הויך (hoykh, “high”), Danish høj (“high”), Faroese háur, høgur (“high”), Gutnish haugar (“high”), Icelandic hár (“high”), Norwegian Bokmål høg, høy (“high”), Norwegian Nynorsk høg, håg, hå (“high”), Swedish hög (“high”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐌷𐍃 (hauhs, “high”), Vandalic *oas (“high”), Old French haut (“high”) (from Old High German hoh (“high”)); also with Ancient Greek Καύκᾰσος (Kaúkăsos, “Caucasus”), Latvian koks (“tree”), Lithuanian kúoka (“stick with thick end, pounder, pestle”), Bulgarian ку́ка (kúka, “hook”), Albanian çukë (“peak, summit, top”).
Inflected forms:
form: higher
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: highest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: heigh
pos: adj
tags: alternative
dialectal
form: hi
pos: adj
tags: alternative
informal
form: higher
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: highest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: heigh
pos: adv
tags: alternative
dialectal
form: hi
pos: adv
tags: alternative
informal
Senses:
gloss: Physically elevated, extending above a base or average level:
pos: adj
examples: The balloon rose high in the sky. The wall was high. a high mountain
Upon the highest spray of every mounting pole,
Those Quirristers are pearcht with many a speckled breast.
The Chitistone River Valley offers a more direct route for travel from McCarthy to the White River and the Shushana gold placers than Skolai Creek, but it involves a high climb over the so-called “goat trail” to avoid the canyon above Chitistone[.]
Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.
gloss: Physically elevated, extending above a base or average level:
pos: adj
examples: She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry. His wooing had been brief but incisive.
A nightgown with a high neck and long sleeves may have the fullness set into a yoke.
The concrete floors of B2B sheds were already being built to an exacting degree of flatness, calibrated using lasers, so that forklifts would not teeter while lifting pallets to the highest shelves.
gloss: Physically elevated, extending above a base or average level:
pos: adj
examples: the pitch (or: the ball) was high
gloss: Physically elevated, extending above a base or average level:
pos: adj
gloss: Having a specified elevation or height; tall.
pos: adj
examples: three feet high three Mount Everests high
I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.
gloss: Elevated in status, esteem, or prestige, or in importance or development; exalted in rank, station, or character.
pos: adj
examples: The oldest of the elves' royal family still conversed in High Elvish.
The Barnacles were a very high family, and a very large family. They were dispersed all over the public offices, and held all sorts of public places.
Not a one of them was old enough to know what the high past of Liani separatism had really been like.
gloss: Elevated in status, esteem, or prestige, or in importance or development; exalted in rank, station, or character.
pos: adj
examples: the high priest, the high officials of the court, the high altar
gloss: Elevated in status, esteem, or prestige, or in importance or development; exalted in rank, station, or character.
pos: adj
examples: high crimes, the high festival of the sun
gloss: Elevated in status, esteem, or prestige, or in importance or development; exalted in rank, station, or character.
pos: adj
examples: high (i.e. intense) heat; high (i.e. full or quite) noon; high (i.e. rich or spicy) seasoning; high (i.e. complete) pleasure; high (i.e. deep or vivid) colour; high (i.e. extensive, thorough) scholarship; high tide; high [tourism] season; the High Middle Ages
High time it is this war now ended were.
1709-1710, Thomas Baker, Reflections on Learning
High sauces and rich spices are fetch'd from the Indies.
gloss: Elevated in status, esteem, or prestige, or in importance or development; exalted in rank, station, or character.
pos: adj
examples: to hear and answer such high things
Plain living and high thinking are no more.
gloss: Extreme, excessive; now specifically very traditionalist and conservative.
pos: adj
examples: high church High Tory
Furder, what wil you answeare for your keping a daye, cessation &c to St. Michael & al Angells? how wil you excuse your self of most high idolatrie, advancing your self in thinges you neuer sawe, rashlie puffed vp of your fleshlie minde, and not holding the heade, depriuing others of their Crowne?
The letter of a "Pioneer" was sent to the Chronicle office by a very respectable man, of a high conservative family, but whose interests have been injuriously affected by the constant fluctuations in the commercial policy of England.
His family was ardently royalist, and might be compared to a high Tory family on this side the water; with some change of conditions, their prejudices and disposition of the mind were the same.
My father was the youngest son of a High-Church and high Tory family, the politically leftwing and religiously Nonconformist rebel; and antiimperialist who nearly lost his position in the City by refusing to sign his firm's pro–Boer War petition.
gloss: Elevated in mood; marked by great merriment, excitement, etc.
pos: adj
examples: in high spirits
1970, Grateful Dead, High Time, on the album Workingman's Dead
I was having a high time, living the good life.
gloss: Keen, enthused.
pos: adj
examples: "Conversely, just because I am not high on positivity, it does not mean I am necessarily high on negativity."
I'm not that high about the relationship.
gloss: Intoxicated; under the influence of a mood-altering drug, formerly usually alcohol, but now (from the mid-20th century) usually not alcohol but rather marijuana, cocaine, heroin, etc.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: "Three extremely high people showing up at the animal shelter like WE FOUND A DOG would be really funny, but..."
Ooh! Remember when you got high at McDonald's and told Gangle to kill herself?
gloss: Luxurious; rich.
pos: adj
examples: high living, the high life
I was living the high lifestyle in famous sex clubs, relaxing on luxurious sofas, in the saunas and whirlpools, enjoying moments of excitement with my male and female companions while sipping champagne from crystal glasses.
gloss: Lofty, often to the point of arrogant, haughty, boastful, proud.
pos: adj
examples: a high tone
An high looke, and a proud heart, […] is sinne.
His forces, after all the high discourses, amounted really but to eighteen hundred foot.
gloss: With tall waves.
pos: adj
examples: The sea is as high as ever. I shouldn't think any boat could put out today.
gloss: Remote (to the north or south) from the equator; situated at (or constituting) a latitude which is expressed by a large number.
pos: adj
examples: high latitude, fish species in high arctic and antarctic areas
But other euphausiids, Euphausia crystallorophias, are found in the pack ice region of the high Antarctic as food of Blue and Minke Whales (Marr, 1956). E. vallentini is very important in the lower Antarctic region, around […]
We predict that L. arctica will coincide with the whole reindeer-caribou distribution, probably excepted Svalbard, South Georgia and other high-polar areas.
[…] petrels, which breed primarily in the high Antarctic, the Rauer Islands are fairly central in their breeding distribution. This study documents the breeding biology of these four species of fulmarine petrels on Hop Island, Rauer Islands during […]
Except for some lithodid crabs that have recently been found in the Antarctic Bellingshausen Sea (Klages et al., 1995; Arana and Retamal, 2000), reptants are not known from high polar areas, where water temperature at the seafloor drops permanently below about 0°C.
This study also analyzed the sources of variations over an environmental gradient extending from low (subtropical) to high (sub-Antarctic) latitudes.
gloss: Large, great (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).
pos: adj
examples: My bank charges me a high interest rate.
I was running a high temperature and had high cholesterol.
high voltage high prices high winds a high number
Can heavenly minds such high resentment show?
Ignition voltage needs to be high enough to overcome the high resistance created by the air gap.
The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.
Studies also show that absentee ballots cast by voters who are younger or from racial and ethnic minority groups are rejected at higher rates than other absentee ballots.
Anyone can determine for himself whether certain wire is high carbon or not. Heat a piece of the wire red hot and while red plunge into water till cold.
gloss: Large, great (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).
pos: adj
examples: Carrots are high in vitamin A. made from a high-copper alloy
gloss: Acute or shrill in pitch, due to being of greater frequency, i.e. produced by more rapid vibrations (wave oscillations).
pos: adj
examples: The note was too high for her to sing.
gloss: Made with some part of the tongue positioned high in the mouth, relatively close to the palate.
pos: adj
gloss: Greater in value than other cards, denominations, suits, etc.
pos: adj
examples: I have KT742 of the same suit. In other words, a K-high flush.
9-high straight = 98765 unsuited
Royal Flush = AKQJT suited = A-high straight flush
gloss: Greater in value than other cards, denominations, suits, etc.
pos: adj
examples: North's hand was high. East was in trouble.
Cutler pushed forward the two necessary white chips. No one's hand was high, and Loomis made a slight winning.
gloss: Strong-scented; slightly tainted/spoiled; beginning to decompose.
pos: adj
examples: Epicures do not cook game before it is high.
The tailor liked his meat high.
What he did know was this: something about the situation smelled wrong. Something about it smelled as high as dead fish that have spent three days in the hot sun.
gloss: Near, in its direction of travel, to the (direction of the) wind.
pos: adj
examples: NO NEARER! (arrive! Fr.) the command given by the pilot of quarter-master, to the helmsman, to steer the ship no higher to the direction of the wind than the sails will operate to advance the ship in her course.
gloss: Positioned up the field, towards the opposing team's goal.
pos: adj
examples: Our defensive line is too high.
gloss: In or to an elevated position.
pos: adv
examples: How high above land did you fly?
The desks were piled high with magazines.
gloss: In or at a great value.
pos: adv
examples: Costs have grown higher this year again.
gloss: At a pitch of great frequency.
pos: adv
examples: I certainly can't sing that high.
Synonyms: haute
hawt
tall
drunk
Antonyms: low
Related words: mighty
Derived words: ace-high
ahigh
aim high
ankle-high
ask how high when someone says jump
at the high port
blow sky high
Bowland Forest High
come hell or high water
come high
contact high
fly high
for the high jump
friends in higher places
friends in high places
on high
get high
get off one's high horse
happy as a clam at high water
have high hopes
headhigh
height
heighth
hell or high water
helper's high
High Abbotside
high-accuracy
high adventure
High Alemannic
high altar
high and dry
high and low
High and Low Bishopside
high and mighty
high and tight
high angel
high anion gap metabolic acidosis
high as a Georgia pine
high as a kite
high as giraffe pussy
highback
highbacked
high-backed
high bailiff
highball
high bar
High Barnet
High Beach
high-beam
high beam
high beams
High Beech
High Bentham
highbie
high-binder
highbishop
high bit
High Blantyre
high blood
high blood pressure
high-blown
high-boiling
highborn
high-born
highbred
High Bridge
High Brooms
highbrow
high-budget
Highbury
highbush
high button shoe
high C
high-calorie
high camp
High Camp
high card
high-card
high-center
high center
high centered
high-centered
high-centre
high centre
high centred
high-centred
high chair
highchair
high challenge
high-cheekboner
high-church
high churchman
high churchmanship
high-class
Highclere
high cockalorum
High Cogges
high color
high colour
high comedy
high comma
high command
high commissioner
high-concept
high concept
high context culture
high-context culture
high-cost
high cotton
high countertenor
high country
high court
high crawl
high crime
Highcroft
high cross
high cube
high culture
highcut
high-daddy
highday
high days and holidays
high-def
high-definition
high definition
high-definition television
high-density
high-density lipoprotein
high dependency unit
high dividend yield trap
high-dividend yield trap
high doh
high dot
high drama
high Earth orbit
High Easter
high end
high-end
high-endness
high-energy
high-entropy alloy
high entropy alloy
Higher Macdonald
Highett
high explosive
high-falutin
highfalutin
high falutin'
high-falutin'
high falutin
high-faluting
high faluting
high falution
high fantasy
high fashion
high-fat
highfather
high-fed
high-fiber
high fidelity
Highfields
high finance
high-finished
high-finned dragonet
high five
high-five
high flier
high-flier
high-flown
high-flyer
high flyer
high-flying
high Fowler's
high-frequency
high frequency
high-frequency gravitational wave
high frequency gravitational wave
high-frequency trading
high frontier
high-fructose corn syrup
high fructose corn syrup
high-fructose maize syrup
high-functioning autism
high functioning
high-functioning
highgate
Highgate
Highgate Hill
High German
high-gloss
high-go
high-grade
high grinding
high ground
Highgrove
high-grown
high-growth
High Halden
High Halstow
High Ham
high-handed
high-handedly
high-handedness
high-hanging fruit
High Harrington
high-hat
high hat
highhearted
high-hearted
high-heartedly
high-heartedness
high heel
high-heel
high-heeled
high heels
high-holder
high-hole
high hopes
high horse
high hundreds
high-impact
high-income
high-intensity
high-intensity interval training
high intensity training
high-IQ
highish
High Island
high island
high-jimmy-knacker
high jinks
High John root
high juice
high-jump
high jump
high jumper
high-jumper
high-key
High Kilburn
high-kilted
high-king
high king
high kingship
High Lake
highland
Highland
Highland Park
Highland Plains
highlands
Highlands
Highland Valley
highleg
High Legh
high-level
high-level language
high-level synthesis
high licence
high license
highlife
high life
high-lift device
highlight
high line
highline
highlining
High Littleton
high living
high-living
high lonesome sound
high-low
highlow
high-low split
highly
high-lying
high-maintenance
highman
high-marking
High Marnham
high-masking
high mass
High Mass
high-melting
high memory area
high milling
high-minded
high-mindedly
high-mindedness
high modernism
high modernity
highmost
high muckamuck
high-muck-a-muck
high muckety-muck
high-necked
high nellie
high-nelly
high nelly
Highness
highness
high noon
High North
high-nosed
high note
high occupancy vehicle
high-occupancy vehicle
high-occupancy vehicle lane
high-octane
high office
high off the hog
high old time
High Ongar
high on life
high on one's own supply
high on the hog
high on the totem pole
High Orchard
high order bit
highpad
high pad
high-paid
High Park
high-pass
highpass
High Peak
high-performance
high-performance liquid chromatography
high pillow
high-pitch
high-pitched
high place
High Plains
High Point
high point
highpoint
high politics
high-post
high-power
high-powered
high-precision
high-pressure
high-pressure liquid chromatography
high-priced
high priest
high priestess
high-priestly
high probability trade
high-profile
high profile
high-proof
High Prussian
high-quality
high quality rip
High Range
high-ranking
highreaching
high relief
high-rent
high-res
high-resolution
High Rhine
high-rise
high-riser
high-rise syndrome
high-risk
high road
high-roller
high roller
high scaler
high school
high schooler
high score
high-score table
high score table
high sea
high seas
high season
high-seeded
high shelf
high sheriff
high side
high-side
high-sighted
high sign
high society
high-sounding
high-spec
high speed
high-speed
high-speed rail
high speed steel
high-speed steel
high-spirited
high-spiritedness
high spirits
highspot
high-stakes
highstand
high-status
high steel
high-step
high-stepper
high-stepping
high-stick
high-sticking
high-stomached
high strangeness
high street
High Street
high striker
high strikes
high-strung
high summer
high-support
high surrogate
high-T
high table
high tackle
high-tail
hightail
high-tailed
high-tail it
high-taper
high taper
high tea
high tech
high-tech
high-techness
high technology
high-temperature superconductivity
high-temperature superconductor
high-tempo
high ten
high-tension
high tension
high-test
high-test peroxide
highth
high-ticket
high tide
hightide
high tider
high time
high-time
high toby
Highton
high-toned
high-top
high top
high touch
high-touch
High Town
Hightown
high treason
high tunnel
high undern
high up
high-up
high vacuum
Highvale
high-value
high-value target
Highveld
high-velocity
high-vis
high-visibility
high-voltage
high voltage
high-voltage transmission line
highwall
high-water
highwater
high water
high-water mark
high waters
highway
High Westwood
high-wheeler
high wine
high wire
highwire
high-wire
high-wire walker
Highworth
highwrought
high-wrought
High Wycombe
high yaller
high yellow
high-yield
high yo-yo
hit the high notes
hold one's head high
hot and high
I have high blood pressure
in high dudgeon
in high feather
in high gear
junior high school
Kilburn High and Low
knee high
knee-high blackberry
knee-high by the Fourth of July
knee-high to a grasshopper
leave someone high and dry
letter-high
logic high
Mile High City
Mile High Club
moral high ground
Most High
mount the high horse
nonhigh
Omaha high-low split
on one's high horse
on the high rope
on the high ropes
paleo-high
ride high
ride the high horse
rower's high
run high
runner's high
semihigh
senior high school
Siberian high
South Leigh and High Cogges
stink to high heaven
sugar high
superhigh
super high frequency
Thirkleby High and Low with Osgodby
three-high
to high heaven
type-high
ultrahigh
ultra high frequency
unhigh
union high school
very high frequency
white coat high blood pressure
with a high arm
with a high hand
with one's head held high
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: բարձր
roman: barjr
lang: Bulgarian
word: голя́м
roman: goljám
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 高
roman: gou¹
lang: Hakka Chinese
word: 高
roman: kô
lang: Chinese
word: 懸 /悬
roman: koân, koâiⁿ
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 高
roman: gāo
lang: Ngazidja Comorian
word: -huu
lang: Czech
word: vysoký
lang: Dutch
word: hoog
lang: Finnish
word: korkea
lang: French
word: élevé
lang: German
word: hoch
lang: Swabian
word: haoch
lang: White Hmong
word: siab
lang: Low German
word: haug
lang: Macedonian
word: висок
roman: visok
lang: Macedonian
word: голем
roman: golem
lang: Mizo
word: sang
lang: Mizo
word: to
lang: Polish
word: wysoki
lang: Portuguese
word: alto
lang: Portuguese
word: elevado
lang: Romanian
word: mare
lang: Russian
word: высо́кий
roman: vysókij
lang: Scots
word: heich
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: mòr
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: вѝсок
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: vìsok
lang: Swedish
word: hög
lang: Turkish
word: yüksek
lang: Turkish
word: aşırı