high

Etymology 1
From, , , from , from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬

Adjective

 * 1) Physically elevated, extending above a base or average level:
 * 2) Very elevated; extending or being far above a base; tall; lofty.
 * 3) Relatively elevated; rising or raised above the average or normal level from which elevation is measured.
 * 4)  Above the batter's shoulders.
 * 5) Pertaining to (or, especially of a language: spoken in) in an area which is at a greater elevation, for example more mountainous, than other regions.
 * 6) Having a specified elevation or height; tall.
 * 7) Elevated in status, esteem, or prestige, or in importance or development; exalted in rank, station, or character.
 * 8) Most exalted; foremost.
 * 9) Of great importance and consequence: grave (if negative) or solemn (if positive).
 * 10) Consummate; advanced (e.g. in development) to the utmost extent or culmination, or possessing a quality in its supreme degree, at its zenith.
 * 11) * 1709-1710,, Reflections on Learning
 * High sauces and rich spices are fetch'd from the Indies.
 * 1) Advanced in complexity (and hence potentially abstract and/or difficult to comprehend).
 * 2)  Extreme, excessive;  very traditionalist and conservative.
 * 3) Elevated in mood; marked by great merriment, excitement, etc.
 * 4) * 1970,, High Time, on the album Workingman's Dead
 * I was having a high time, living the good life.
 * 1)  Luxurious; rich.
 * 2) Lofty, often to the point of arrogant, haughty, boastful, proud.
 * 3)  Keen, enthused.
 * 4) * 2010, Lena, quoted by S. Rosenbloom, The Multiracial Urban High School: Fearing Peers and Trusting Friends (ISBN 0230114733), chapter four:
 * I'm not that high about the relationship.
 * 1)  With tall waves.
 * 2)  (to the north or south) from the equator; situated at (or constituting) a latitude which is expressed by a large number.
 * 3) * 2007, Zoological Studies, volume 46, iissues 1-3, page 371:
 * This study also analyzed the sources of variations over an environmental gradient extending from low (subtropical) to high (sub-Antarctic) latitudes.
 * , great (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).
 * 1) Having a large or comparatively larger concentration of (a substance, ).
 * 2)  Acute or shrill in pitch, due to being of greater frequency, i.e. produced by more rapid vibrations (wave oscillations).
 * 3)  Made with some part of the tongue positioned high in the mouth, relatively close to the palate.
 * 4)  Greater in value than other cards, denominations, suits, etc.
 * 5)  Having the highest rank in a straight, flush or straight flush.
 * 6)  Winning; able to take a trick, win a round, etc.
 * 7)  Strong-scented; slightly tainted/spoiled; beginning to decompose.
 * 8)  ; under the influence of a mood-altering drug, formerly usually alcohol, but now (from the mid-20th century) usually not alcohol but rather marijuana, cocaine, heroin, etc.
 * 9)  Near, in its direction of travel, to the (direction of the) wind.
 * 10)  Positioned up the field, towards the opposing team's goal.
 * 1) * 1970,, High Time, on the album Workingman's Dead
 * I was having a high time, living the good life.
 * 1)  Luxurious; rich.
 * 2) Lofty, often to the point of arrogant, haughty, boastful, proud.
 * 3)  Keen, enthused.
 * 4) * 2010, Lena, quoted by S. Rosenbloom, The Multiracial Urban High School: Fearing Peers and Trusting Friends (ISBN 0230114733), chapter four:
 * I'm not that high about the relationship.
 * 1)  With tall waves.
 * 2)  (to the north or south) from the equator; situated at (or constituting) a latitude which is expressed by a large number.
 * 3) * 2007, Zoological Studies, volume 46, iissues 1-3, page 371:
 * This study also analyzed the sources of variations over an environmental gradient extending from low (subtropical) to high (sub-Antarctic) latitudes.
 * , great (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).
 * 1) Having a large or comparatively larger concentration of (a substance, ).
 * 2)  Acute or shrill in pitch, due to being of greater frequency, i.e. produced by more rapid vibrations (wave oscillations).
 * 3)  Made with some part of the tongue positioned high in the mouth, relatively close to the palate.
 * 4)  Greater in value than other cards, denominations, suits, etc.
 * 5)  Having the highest rank in a straight, flush or straight flush.
 * 6)  Winning; able to take a trick, win a round, etc.
 * 7)  Strong-scented; slightly tainted/spoiled; beginning to decompose.
 * 8)  ; under the influence of a mood-altering drug, formerly usually alcohol, but now (from the mid-20th century) usually not alcohol but rather marijuana, cocaine, heroin, etc.
 * 9)  Near, in its direction of travel, to the (direction of the) wind.
 * 10)  Positioned up the field, towards the opposing team's goal.
 * 1) * 2007, Zoological Studies, volume 46, iissues 1-3, page 371:
 * This study also analyzed the sources of variations over an environmental gradient extending from low (subtropical) to high (sub-Antarctic) latitudes.
 * , great (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).
 * 1) Having a large or comparatively larger concentration of (a substance, ).
 * 2)  Acute or shrill in pitch, due to being of greater frequency, i.e. produced by more rapid vibrations (wave oscillations).
 * 3)  Made with some part of the tongue positioned high in the mouth, relatively close to the palate.
 * 4)  Greater in value than other cards, denominations, suits, etc.
 * 5)  Having the highest rank in a straight, flush or straight flush.
 * 6)  Winning; able to take a trick, win a round, etc.
 * 7)  Strong-scented; slightly tainted/spoiled; beginning to decompose.
 * 8)  ; under the influence of a mood-altering drug, formerly usually alcohol, but now (from the mid-20th century) usually not alcohol but rather marijuana, cocaine, heroin, etc.
 * 9)  Near, in its direction of travel, to the (direction of the) wind.
 * 10)  Positioned up the field, towards the opposing team's goal.
 * 1)  Made with some part of the tongue positioned high in the mouth, relatively close to the palate.
 * 2)  Greater in value than other cards, denominations, suits, etc.
 * 3)  Having the highest rank in a straight, flush or straight flush.
 * 4)  Winning; able to take a trick, win a round, etc.
 * 5)  Strong-scented; slightly tainted/spoiled; beginning to decompose.
 * 6)  ; under the influence of a mood-altering drug, formerly usually alcohol, but now (from the mid-20th century) usually not alcohol but rather marijuana, cocaine, heroin, etc.
 * 7)  Near, in its direction of travel, to the (direction of the) wind.
 * 8)  Positioned up the field, towards the opposing team's goal.
 * 1)  Strong-scented; slightly tainted/spoiled; beginning to decompose.
 * 2)  ; under the influence of a mood-altering drug, formerly usually alcohol, but now (from the mid-20th century) usually not alcohol but rather marijuana, cocaine, heroin, etc.
 * 3)  Near, in its direction of travel, to the (direction of the) wind.
 * 4)  Positioned up the field, towards the opposing team's goal.
 * 1)  ; under the influence of a mood-altering drug, formerly usually alcohol, but now (from the mid-20th century) usually not alcohol but rather marijuana, cocaine, heroin, etc.
 * 2)  Near, in its direction of travel, to the (direction of the) wind.
 * 3)  Positioned up the field, towards the opposing team's goal.
 * 1)  Near, in its direction of travel, to the (direction of the) wind.
 * 2)  Positioned up the field, towards the opposing team's goal.
 * 1)  Positioned up the field, towards the opposing team's goal.
 * 1)  Positioned up the field, towards the opposing team's goal.

Synonyms

 * See Thesaurus:tall
 * See Thesaurus:stoned or Thesaurus:drunk
 * See Thesaurus:stoned or Thesaurus:drunk

Antonyms

 * low

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Basque:
 * Guaraní:
 * Ido:
 * Pitjantjatjara:
 * Sardinian:
 * Slovene:
 * Telugu: (1),  (2)
 * Tupinambá:

Adverb

 * 1) In or to an elevated position.
 * How high above land did you fly?
 * The desks were piled high with magazines.
 * 1) In or at a great value.
 * Costs have grown higher this year again.
 * 1) At a pitch of great frequency.
 * I certainly can't sing that high.

Usage notes

 * The adverb high and the adverb highly should not be confused.
 * He hung the picture high on the wall.
 * As a politician, he isn't esteemed too highly.

Noun

 * 1) A high point or position, literally (as, an elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven).or figuratively (as, a point of success or achievement; a time when things are at their best, greatest, most numerous, maximum, etc).
 * 2) * 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
 * South Korea has reached a new high in a kind of air pollution measured in fine dust.
 * 1) The maximum atmospheric temperature recorded at a particular location, especially during one 24-hour period.
 * 2) A period of euphoria, from excitement or from an intake of drugs.
 * 3) A drug that gives such a high.
 * 4)  A large area of elevated atmospheric pressure; an anticyclone.
 * A large high is centred on the Azores.
 * 1)  The highest card dealt or drawn.
 * 1) A drug that gives such a high.
 * 2)  A large area of elevated atmospheric pressure; an anticyclone.
 * A large high is centred on the Azores.
 * 1)  The highest card dealt or drawn.
 * 1)  A large area of elevated atmospheric pressure; an anticyclone.
 * A large high is centred on the Azores.
 * 1)  The highest card dealt or drawn.
 * 1)  The highest card dealt or drawn.

Verb

 * 1)   To rise.
 * The sun higheth.

Etymology 2
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Etymology
From. .

Adjective

 * 1) high
 * 2)  excited

Verb

 * 1) to be high
 * 2)  to be excited
 * 3) to use drugs

Etymology
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Adjective

 * 1)   intoxicated with a drug other than alcohol

Etymology
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Adjective

 * 1) high