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(adj)
Very tall or high and dwarfing anything around it.
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(humorous) Lofty; very high.
At a higher level, rank or position.
High, tall, having great height or stature.
Going up, physically or in quantity, rate, etc.
(n)
overflow
The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period.
Alternative form of high-up. [High; elevated or tall.]
Characterised by peaks.
(of any physical thing) Having great weight.
Of, pertaining to, or constituting a climax; reaching a decisive moment or point of greatest excitement.
The act of proceeding forward; an advance.
(informal) Very good; excellent; wonderful; fantastic.
Of great size, large.
(of a person) Distinguished, important, noteworthy.
The most extreme; greatest, ultimate.
Higher in rank, status, or quality.
(adv)
In a manner that involves luxury; in an expensive or indulgent manner.
Final, ultimate, coming after all others of its kind.
Praised, honored.
At or close to the state of the art.
Expressing or indicating favour or goodwill; approving, encouraging.
In a luxurious manner; full of majesty or expression:
Extremely happy and excited; delighted; pleased, euphoric.
(of a person or the face) Tense and pale from cold, worry, or hunger.
Joyous elation, joyfulness, joyousness.
US standard spelling of favourable. [Apt to win favour; pleasing.]
(also figuratively, of food or drink, or its flavour) Matured and smooth, and not acidic, harsh, or sharp.
Impressively dominant; very good and impressive.
Next in order to the first or primary; of second place in origin, rank, etc.
Appearing to look deeply into; penetrating.
Protuberant or abnormally distended (as by injury or disease).
Terminating in a point or edge, especially one that can cut or pierce easily; not dull, obtuse, or rounded.
creaky; squeaky
A sound that squeaks.
Tending to produce a high-pitched sound or squeak.
Of a sound, having a high pitch.
High-pitched and piercing.
The sound of one who squeals; a squeal.
Given to screeching.
(sometimes figurative) assurgent, ascending
(proscribed) Alternative form of high school. [(education) An institution which provides all or part of secondary education.]
An act of flooding; a flood or gush.
Of studies which take place after having successfully completed a degree course.
Of a near-vertical gradient; of a slope, surface, curve, etc. that proceeds upward at an angle near vertical.
(US) An institution which provides secondary education, typically in grades 10, 11, and 12, and often also in grade 9.
(Canada, US, Australia, Scotland) A secondary school.
A neighborhood or other development built on a hill or mountain.
A kind of sports shoe that extends significantly over the wearer's ankle.
Having the smell, taste and texture of game meat.
Having a bad odor.
climactic
An overflow of a large amount of water (usually disastrous) from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.
Behaving as though affected by alcohol including exhilaration, and a dumbed or stupefied manner.
Intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.
Stupefied by alcohol, drunk.
An adult male singer who uses head tone or falsetto to sing far higher than the typical male vocal range.
A person or instrument that performs the soprano part.
Alternative spelling of gamey. [Having the smell, taste and texture of game meat.]
(music) Pertaining to the highest singing voice or part in harmonized music.
A person or musical instrument that performs the alto part.
Of or pertaining to the tenor part or range.
(music) The highest register of a woodwind instrument, or a specific note in this register
(music) a musical instrument, especially a saxophone or recorder, that is a pitch higher than the soprano instrument of its class
Having one or more spikes; spiny.
(of a voice) Sounding as if the speaker has swollen adenoids.
(anatomy, relational) Of or pertaining to the nose or to the nasion.
High-pitched.
used of a height or viewpoint
having or moving with a high step
Of a horse, that walks or trots lifting its legs very high off the ground.
(of shoes or boots) having relatively high uppers
a forward gear with a gear ratio giving high vehicle velocity for a given engine speed
happy and excited and energetic
Containing the maximum possible amount that can fit in the space available.
Wide in extent or scope.
A sound that shrills.
holding an academic degree
Raised, usually above ground level.
excessive, exorbitant
At or nearest to the top; uppermost; being the very highest.
Increased in intensity or concentration; elevated.
(v)
(intransitive) (of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater, to greaten.
On the increase.
(obsolete) Elevated, raised aloft.
Situated on the top of something.
The distance from the base to the top of something.
Directed toward a higher place.
(by ellipsis) Being located higher on the same page or on a preceding page.
(Internet) Applied to domains at the highest level, such as .uk covering all sites for the United Kingdom.
(intransitive) To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
A large quantity or number; a great deal.
Having a large physical extent from side to side.