Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for High (-er, -est)
high (-er, -est), adj. [OE héah < Germanic.] (webplay: color, court, dear, deep, divine, excellence, feelings, hour, low, mighty, mind, nature, proud, rank, rich, rising, rock, soul, sound, sun, tower, wind).
- Great; grand; important; of exalted rank.
- Fancy; costly; eloquent; ostentatious.
- Fine; excellent; super; top quality; upper class; [fig.] heavenly; exalted; dignified.
- Hot; ardent; sultry; intense; extreme.
- Loud; acute; sharp; accented; lofty in pitch; intense in musical tone.
- Far above; upward in position; [fig.] elevated above mortal constraints.
- Difficult; strenuous; inaccessible; out of reach.
- Towering over; hovering above; elevated to a higher altitude than.
- Phrase. “high up”: proud; haughty; arrogant; overbearing; presumptuous.
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