Dictionary Definition
high adj
1 greater than normal in degree or intensity or
amount; "a high temperature"; "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" [ant: low]
2 (literal meanings) being at or having a
relatively great or specific elevation or upward extension
(sometimes used in combinations like `knee-high'); "a high
mountain"; "high ceilings"; "high buildings"; "a high forehead"; "a
high incline"; "a foot high" [ant: low]
3 standing above others in quality or position;
"people in high places"; "the high priest"; "eminent members of the
community" [syn: eminent]
4 used of sounds and voices; high in pitch or
frequency [syn: high-pitched]
[ant: low]
5 happy and excited and energetic [syn: in high
spirits]
7 slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from
alcohol or a drug (especially marijuana) [syn: mellow]
Noun
1 a lofty level or position or degree; "summer
temperatures reached an all-time high" [ant: low]
2 an air mass of higher than normal pressure;
"the east coast benefits from a Bermuda high" [syn: high
pressure]
3 a state of sustained elation; "I'm on a
permanent high these days" [ant: low
spirits]
4 a state of altered consciousness induced by
alcohol or narcotics; "they took drugs to get a high on"
5 a high place; "they stood on high and observed
the coutryside"; "he doesn't like heights" [syn: heights]
6 a public secondary school usually including
grades 9 through 12; "he goes to the neighborhood highschool" [syn:
senior
high school, senior high,
highschool, high
school]
7 a forward gear with a gear ratio giving high
vehicle velocity for a given engine speed [syn: high gear]
adv
1 at a great altitude; "he climbed high on the
ladder" [syn: high up]
2 in or to a high position, amount, or degree;
"prices have gone up far too high"
3 in a rich manner; "he lives high" [syn:
richly, luxuriously]
4 far up toward the source; "he lives high up the
river"
User Contributed Dictionary
Etymology
hēah < *hauhaz < *keu-k-, a suffixed form of *keu-. Cognate with Dutch hoog, German hoch; and with Lithuanian kaukas, Russian куча.Adjective
Translations
elevated
- Aramaic:
- Bulgarian: приповдигнат, извисен
- Catalan: alt
- Chinese: 高 (gāo)
- Croatian: visok
- Dutch: hoog
- Finnish: korkea
- French: haut
- German: hoch
- Hungarian: magas
- Interlingua: alte
- Italian: alto, elevato, illustre
- Japanese: 高い (たかい, takai)
- Korean: 높다 (nopda)
- Kurdish: بهرز
- Malay: tinggi
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Portuguese: alto, alta
- Russian: высокий
- Spanish: alto
- Swedish: hög
tall, lofty
- Aramaic:
- Bulgarian: висок
- Catalan: alt
- Croatian: visok
- Czech: vysoký
- Dutch: hoog
- Finnish: korkea
- French: haut
- German: hoch
- Greek: ψηλός (psilós)
- Hungarian: magas
- Interlingua: alte
- Italian: alto, elevato
- Japanese: 高い (たかい, takai)
- Korean: 높다 (nopda)
- Portuguese: alto, alta
- Russian: высокий
- Spanish: alto
- Swedish: hög
slang: stoned
- Catalan: drogat
- Croatian: napušen, nadrogiran
- Dutch: high
- Finnish: pilvessä
- French: planer
- German: berauscht
- Greek: μαστουρωμένος (mastouroménos)
- Interlingua: drogate
- Italian: fatto, eccitato, su di giri, schizzato, scoppiato, flippato, fuso, gasato
- Portuguese: alto, alta
- Spanish: colocado
- Swedish: hög
great or large quantity
- Croatian: visok
- Dutch: hoog
- Russian: высокий
- Swedish: hög
- ttbc Albanian: lartë
- ttbc Basque: gora
- ttbc Esperanto: alta
- Guaraní: yvategua (1,2)
- ttbc Ido: alta
- ttbc Irish: ard
- ttbc Pitjantjatjara: katu
- ttbc Sardinian: artu
- ttbc Scottish Gaelic: aird
- ttbc Slovene: visok , visoka , visoko (1,2)
- ttbc Telugu: ఉన్నతమైన (unnatamaina) (1), ఎత్తైన (ettaina) (2)
- Tupinambá: ybatesûara (1,2)
Derived terms
- get high
- high as a kite
- high and dry
- high and low
- high-end
- high five
- high-minded
- high-strung
- high tea
Noun
Extensive Definition
High may refer to:
- Height
- High (atmospheric), a high pressure area
- High (computability), a quality of a Turing degree, in computability theory
- High (technical analysis), or top, an event in market-price fluctuations of a security
- High (1967 film), a Canadian film
- Experiencing intoxication from drugs
- High (Blue Nile album)
- High (Flotsam and Jetsam album)
- "High" (James Blunt song)
- "High" (The Cure song)
- "High" (Feeder song)
- "High" (Lighthouse Family song)
- "High" (Eurovision song), a song by Knut Anders Sørum, the Norwegian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004
high in Dutch: High
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Dutch courage, Gymnasium, Hydromatic, Latin school,
Olympian, Realgymnasium, Realschule, a bit much, a
high, abandoned,
above, abovestairs, academy, accented, acme, acute, aerial, afflicted, aged, aggrandized, agog, air mass, airward, airy, aloft, aloof, altitudinous, alto, alveolar, anticyclone, apex, apical, apico-alveolar,
apico-dental, apotheosized, aquiver, aristocratic, arousal, aroused, articulated, ascending, asking price,
aspiring, assimilated, atingle, atwitter, august, automatic transmission,
awesome, back, bad, bad-smelling, barfy, barytone, beaming, bearish prices,
beatified, befuddlement, bent, besottedness, beyond all
bounds, bid price, big,
bighearted, bilabial, blithe, blithesome, blown, boiled, boisterous, bombed, book value, boozy, boundless, brackish, bright, bright and sunny,
broad, bullish prices,
bursting, bursting with
happiness, cacuminal,
call price, canned,
canonized, capital, carried away, catalepsy, central, cerebral, checked, cheerful, cheery, chief, chivalrous, close, closing price, cloying, cockeyed, cockeyed drunk,
cogwheel, cold front,
cold sector, colossal,
coma, consequential, considerable, consonant, consonantal, continuant, costly, crocked, crocko, cyclone, dear, dear-bought, decline, dental, differential, differential
gear, dissimilated,
distinguished,
dominating, dorsal, drugged, drunk, drunkenness, ducal, ear-splitting, ebullient, ecstatic, effervescent, egregious, elaborate, elate, elated, elevated, eminent, emotion, encephalitis
lethargica, enchanted,
ennobled, enormous, enraptured, enravished, enshrined, enthroned, entranced, erect, ethereal, eupeptic, euphoric, exaggerated, exalted, excellent, excessive, excessively, excited, excitedness, excitement, exhilarated, exhilaration, exorbitant, expensive, extraordinary, extravagant, extreme, exuberant, exultant, fabulous, face value, falsetto, famous, fancy, favorable, fecal, fetid, fired, fixed price, flash price,
flat, flurry, flushed, flutter, foremost, foul, freaked out, freewheel, fried, front, frowsty, frowy, frowzy, fuddle, fuddled, fuddledness, fuddlement, fulsome, funky, fusty, gamy, gear, gear train, gearbox, gearing, gearshift, gearwheel, generous, genial, genteel, gentle, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly, gigantic, glad, gladsome, glide, glorified, glorious, glossal, glottal, glowing, gluttonous, godlike, grammar school,
grand, grave, graveolent, great, great of heart, greathearted, guttural, half-seas over,
handsome, hangover, happy, hard, haughty, heavy, height, heinous, held in awe, heroic, high and mighty, high
school, high up, high-class, high-flown, high-frequency,
high-headed, high-minded, high-nosed, high-pitched, high-pressure
area, high-priced, high-reaching, high-set, high-sounding,
high-tasted, high-toned, high-up, highfalutin, highfaluting, hilarious, hopeful, hopped up, huge, hyperbolic, hypertrophied, icky, idealistic, ill-smelling,
illuminated,
immoderate, immoderately, immortal, immortalized, imparadised, impassioned, important, in ecstasies, in
good spirits, in heaven, in high spirits, in paradise, in raptures,
in seventh heaven, in the air, in the clouds, incontinent, inebriated, inebriation, inebriety, inflamed, inordinate, inordinately, insobriety, intemperate, intemperately, intermediate, intermediate
school, intonated,
intoxicated,
intoxication,
irrepressible,
isobar, isometric, isometric line,
isopiestic line, isotherm, isothermal line,
issue par, issue price, jubilant, junior high, junior
high school, katzenjammer, keyed up,
kinglike, kingly, knightly, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, ladylike, large, largehearted, lateral, lathered up, lauded, laughing, lavish, lax, leading, lethargy, liberal, lifted, light, lingual, liquid, lit, lit up, loaded, lofty, low, low-pressure area, lubricated, lushy, luxurious, maggoty, magnanimous, magnificent, magnified, majestic, malodorous, manic, manic state, market price,
market value, mawkish,
maximum, mephitic, merry, mezzo-soprano, miasmal, miasmic, mid, middle school, mighty, mildewed, mildewy, moldy, momentous, monophthongal, monstrous, monumental, morning after,
mounting, moved, musty, muted, muzzy, narcohypnosis, narcolepsy, narcoma, narcosis, narcotic stupor,
narcotization,
narrow, nasal, nasalized, nasty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, neutral, nidorous, noble, noble-minded, nod, noisome, nominal value, not
affordable, noxious,
occluded front, occlusive, odorous, of gentle blood, of
good cheer, of great cost, of rank, off, offensive, offering price,
oiled, olid, on cloud nine, on high, on
stilts, on the peak, on tiptoe, open, openhanded, opening price,
optimistic, organized, out of bounds, out
of sight, outrageous,
outtopping, over, overbig, overdeveloped, overdrive, overgreat, overgrown, overhead, overjoyed, overjoyful, overlarge, overlooking, overmuch, overripe, overtopping, overweening, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, par, par value, parity, patrician, peak, penetrating, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pickled, pie-eyed, piercing, pissed, pissy-eyed, pitch, pitched, plastered, pleasant, poisonous, polar front,
polluted, possessed, posttonic, pot-valiance,
pot-valor, potted,
premium, prep school,
preparatory school, price,
pricey, princelike, princely, principal, prodigal, prodigally, prominent, public school, put
price, putrid, queenlike, queenly, quite the lady,
quotation, quoted
price, rack, raddled, radiant, raised, rally, rampant, rancid, rank, rapt, raptured, rapturous, ravished, ready to burst,
reasty, reasy, rebarbative, record, reechy, reeking, reeky, renowned, repulsive, retroflex, reverse, rhapsodic, riant, rich, ripe, rosy, rotten, rounded, roused, sainted, sanctified, sanguine, sanguineous, secondary
school, sedation,
seminary, semivowel, senior high, senior
high school, sent, serious, settling price,
sharp, shellacked, shock, shrill, shrined, sickening, skunk-drunk,
skyward, sleeping
sickness, smashed,
smellful, smelling, smelly, smiling, soaked, soaring, soft, sonant, sopor, soprano, sottedness, sour, soured, soused, spaced out, spacy, sparkling, spiring, spoiled, squall line, squeaky, squiffy, stale, standard transmission,
stated value, stationary front, steamed up, steep, stenchy, stewed, stick shift, stiff, stilted, stimulated, stimulation, stinking, stinko, stirred, stirred up, stoned, stopped, straight up, stressed, strident, strong, strong-flavored,
strong-tasting, stuffy,
stupor, sublime, sulfurous, sumptuous, sunny, superb, supereminent, superior, superlative, supernal, surd, swacked, swings, swoon, sybaritic, syllabic, synchromesh, tainted, tall, tanked, tenor, tense, thanatosis, thick, thrilled, throaty, throned, tight, tingling, tingly, tipsiness, tipsy, tiptoe, titled, to excess, to extremes,
to the zenith, tonal,
tonic, too much, top, topless, toplofty, topping, towering, towery, trance, transmission, transported, treble, turbulent, turned, turned on, turned-on,
twangy, unaccented, unbridled, unconscionable, undue, unpayable, unreasonable, unrestrained, unrounded, unstressed, up, upcast, upflung, uplifted, upraised, upreared, upright, upstairs, upthrown, upward, upwards, velar, vile, violent, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vomity, vowel, vowellike, warm front,
weak, weather map, weevily, weighty, whipped up, wide, wind-shift line, winsome, without restraint,
worked up, wrought up, yeasty, yucky, zonked