'igh

Adjective

high (comparative higher, superlative highest)

1. Very elevated; extending or being far above a base; tall; lofty.
   • The balloon rose high in the sky. The wall was high. a high mountain
2. Relatively elevated; rising or raised above the average or normal level from which elevation is measured.
   • She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry. His wooing had been brief but incisive.1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC
3. Of a ball, above the batter's shoulders.
   • the pitch (or: the ball) was high
4. Pertaining to (or, especially of a language: spoken in) an area which is at a greater elevation, for example more mountainous, than other regions.
5. Having a specified elevation or height; tall.
   • three feet high three Mount Everests high
6. Elevated in status, esteem, or prestige, or in importance or development; exalted in rank, station, or character.
   • The oldest of the elves' royal family still conversed in High Elvish.

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