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High   /haɪ/   Listen
High

adjective
(compar. higher; superl. highest)
1.
Greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount.  "A high price" , "The high point of his career" , "High risks" , "Has high hopes" , "The river is high" , "He has a high opinion of himself"
2.
(literal meaning) being at or having a relatively great or specific elevation or upward extension (sometimes used in combinations like 'knee-high').  "High ceilings" , "High buildings" , "A high forehead" , "A high incline" , "A foot high"
3.
Standing above others in quality or position.  Synonym: eminent.  "The high priest" , "Eminent members of the community"
4.
Used of sounds and voices; high in pitch or frequency.  Synonym: high-pitched.
5.
Happy and excited and energetic.  Synonym: in high spirits.
6.
(used of the smell of meat) smelling spoiled or tainted.  Synonyms: gamey, gamy.
7.
Slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug (especially marijuana).  Synonym: mellow.
adverb
1.
At a great altitude.  Synonym: high up.
2.
In or to a high position, amount, or degree.
3.
In a rich manner.  Synonyms: luxuriously, richly.
4.
Far up toward the source.
noun
1.
A lofty level or position or degree.
2.
An air mass of higher than normal pressure.
3.
A state of sustained elation.
4.
A state of altered consciousness induced by alcohol or narcotics.
5.
A high place.  Synonym: heights.  "He doesn't like heights"
6.
A public secondary school usually including grades 9 through 12.  Synonyms: high school, highschool, senior high, senior high school.
7.
A forward gear with a gear ratio that gives the greatest vehicle velocity for a given engine speed.  Synonym: high gear.



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"High" Quotes from Famous Books



... which her love had drawn her, could he ever escape Mrs. Dawson's persecutions? Would she not, even if he won and married Harriet, pursue and taunt him with the girl's old love, as she had Clem Dill? And how could he stand that—he, whose ideal of woman and woman's constancy had always been so high? ...
— Westerfelt • Will N. Harben
... guests to the grim hill behind the town; he sat by Virginia as they were driven up the white, winding road; and when at last the convict coachman drew up the horses at a great door of black iron in the blank side of a high white wall, it was he who helped her ...
— The Castle Of The Shadows • Alice Muriel Williamson
... high-carbon tool steels are heated in a cyanide bath. With this bath, the heat can be controlled within 3 deg. The steel is evenly heated without exposure to the air, resulting in work which is not warped and ...
— The Working of Steel - Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel • Fred H. Colvin
... clouds, a welcome omen, and shone upon the curving beach where together we had dared the lords of the harem and slain the holluschickie. All Endeavour Island brightened under the sun. Even the grim south-western promontory showed less grim, and here and there, where the sea-spray wet its surface, high lights flashed and dazzled in ...
— The Sea-Wolf • Jack London
... to the exact conditions laid down by the censors as to the convenience of settling the business and freeing themselves from farther trouble. You also may do, what you have done splendidly and are still doing, namely, dwell on the high position of the publicani, and on your obligations to that order, in such a way as—putting out of the question all considerations of your imperium and the power of your official authority and dignity—to ...
— The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 - The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order • Marcus Tullius Cicero


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