Synonyms of the word lofty


LOFTYEMINENT - EXALTED - GALLANT - GRAND - HIGH - HIGH-FLOWN - HIGH-MINDED - IDEALISTIC - IMPRESSIVE - MAJESTIC - NOBLE - PROUD - RAREFIED - RARIFIED - SOARING - SUBLIME - TOWERING

lofty

  • adj. high, tall, having great height or stature.
  • adj. idealistic, implying over-optimism.
  • adj. extremely proud; arrogant; haughty.

eminent

  • adj. (archaic) high, lofty; towering; prominent.
  • adj. noteworthy, remarkable, great.
  • adj. (of a person) distinguished, important, noteworthy.

exalted

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of exalt.
  • adj. Praised, or honored.
  • adj. Noble, sublime; heavenly.
  • adj. Elated; blissful.

gallant

  • adj. Brave, valiant.
  • adj. Honorable.
  • adj. Grand, noble.
  • adj. (obsolete) Showy; splendid; magnificent; gay; well-dressed.
  • adj. Polite and attentive to ladies; courteous to women; chivalrous.
  • n. (dated) Fashionable young man, who is polite and attentive to women.
  • n. One who woos, a lover, a suitor, a seducer.
  • n. An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon.
  • n. (nautical) topgallant.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To attend or wait on (a lady).
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To handle with grace or in a modish manner.

grand

  • adj. Of a large size or extent; great.
  • adj. Great in size, and fine or imposing in appearance or impression; illustrious, dignified, magnificent.
  • adj. Having higher rank or more dignity, size, or importance than other persons or things of the same name.
  • adj. (usually in compound forms) Standing in the second or some more remote degree of parentage or descent.
  • adj. (Ireland, Northern England, colloquial, otherwise dated) Fine; lovely.
  • n. A thousand of some unit of currency, such as dollars or pounds. (Compare G.).
  • n. (music) A grand piano.

high

  • adj. Very elevated; extending or being far above a base; tall; lofty.
  • adj. Relatively elevated; rising or raised above the average or normal level from which elevation is measured.
  • adj. Having a specified elevation or height; tall.
  • adj. Elevated in status, esteem, prestige; exalted in rank, station, or character.
  • adj. Of great importance and consequence: grave (if negative) or solemn (if positive).
  • adj. Consummate; advanced (e.g. in development) to the utmost extent or culmination, or possessing a quality…
  • adj. (in several set phrases) Remote in distance or time.
  • adj. (in several set phrases) Very traditionalist and conservative, especially in favoring older ways of doing…
  • adj. Elevated in mood; marked by great merriment, excitement, etc.
  • adj. (of a lifestyle) Luxurious; rich.
  • adj. Lofty, often to the point of arrogant, haugty, boastful, proud.
  • adj. (of a body of water) With tall waves.
  • adj. Large, great (in quantity, value, force, energy, etc).
  • adj. (acoustics) Acute or shrill in pitch, due to being of greater frequency, i.e. produced by more rapid vibrations…
  • adj. (phonetics) Made with some part of the tongue positioned high in the mouth, relatively close to the palate.
  • adj. (card games) Greater in value than other cards, denominations, suits, etc.
  • adj. (of meat, especially venison) Strong-scented; slightly tainted/spoiled; beginning to decompose.
  • adj. (slang) Intoxicated; under the influence of a mood-altering drug, formerly (until the early 20th century)…
  • adj. (nautical, of a sailing ship) Near, in its direction of travel, to the (direction of the) wind.
  • adv. In or to an elevated position.
  • adv. In or at a great value.
  • adv. In a pitch of great frequency.
  • n. A period of euphoria, from excitement or from an intake of drugs.
  • n. A drug that gives such a high.
  • n. (informal) A large area of elevated atmospheric pressure; an anticyclone.
  • n. The maximum atmospheric temperature recorded at a particular location, especially during one 24-hour period.
  • n. An elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven.
  • n. (card games) The highest card dealt or drawn.
  • v. (obsolete) To rise.
  • n. (obsolete) Thought; intention; determination; purpose.
  • v. To hie; to hasten.

high-flown

  • adj. pretentiously eloquent; highly figurative.
  • adj. lofty, extravagant, refined.

high-minded

  • adj. Given to idealism.
  • adj. Refined, cultured, particularly civilized.

idealistic

  • adj. Of or pertaining to an idealist or to idealism.

impressive

  • adj. Making, or tending to make, a positive impression; having power to impress.
  • adj. Capable of being impressed.
  • adj. Appealing.

majestic

  • adj. Having qualities of splendor or royalty.

noble

  • n. An aristocrat; one of aristocratic blood.
  • n. (now historical) A medieval gold coin of England in the 14th and 15th centuries, usually valued at 6s…
  • adj. Having honorable qualities; having moral eminence and freedom from anything petty, mean or dubious in…
  • adj. Grand; stately; magnificent; splendid.
  • adj. Of exalted rank; of or relating to the nobility; distinguished from the masses by birth, station, or title;…
  • adj. (geometry, of a polyhedron) Both isohedral and isogonal.

proud

  • adj. Gratified; feeling honoured (by something); feeling satisfied or happy about a fact or event.
  • adj. Possessed of a due sense of what one is worth or deserves.
  • adj. (chiefly biblical) Having too high an opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious.
  • adj. Generating a sense of pride; being a cause for pride.
  • adj. (obsolete) Brave, valiant; gallant.
  • adj. Standing out or raised; swollen.
  • adj. (obsolete) Excited by sexual desire; (of female animals) in heat.
  • adj. Happy, usually used with a sense of honour, as in "I'm so proud to have you in our town." But occasionally…

rarefied

  • adj. Distant from the lives and everyday concerns of ordinary people; esoteric, exclusive, select.
  • adj. Elevated in style or nature, sublime; of high intellectual or moral value.
  • adj. (of a gas etc.) Less dense than usual; thin.
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of rarefy.

rarified

  • adj. Alternative spelling of rarefied.
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of rarify.

soaring

  • v. present participle of soar Mounting on the wing; rising aloft; towering in thought or mind.
  • n. The act of mounting on the wing, or of towering in thought or mind; intellectual flight.
  • adj. assurgent, ascending.

sublime

  • v. (chemistry, physics) To sublimate.
  • v. To raise on high.
  • v. To exalt; to heighten; to improve; to purify.
  • v. To dignify; to ennoble.
  • adj. Noble and majestic.
  • adj. Impressive and awe-inspiring, yet simple.
  • adj. (obsolete) Lifted up; high in place; exalted aloft; uplifted; lofty.
  • adj. (obsolete) Elevated by joy; elated.
  • adj. Lofty of mien; haughty; proud.
  • n. Something sublime.

towering

  • v. present participle of tower.
  • adj. Very tall or high, particularly used to denote something that is taller than anything around it.
  • n. The act or condition of being high above others.

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