high-flying
high-flying adjective: characteristic of a highflier; extravagant in conduct or opinion.
Adjective
high-flying (comparative more high-flying, superlative most high-flying)
- Characteristic of a highflier; extravagant in conduct or opinion.
- As a bright young engineering graduate in the early 2000s she worked for a year as a "high-flying" analyst at Merrill Lynch, before she quit in disgust to write a novel based on the experience.2013 June 23, Katy Guest, “Polly Courtney interview: The voice of the recession generation”, in The Independent
Forms of high-flying
| comparative | more high-flying |
|---|---|
| superlative | most high-flying |
| alternative form | highflying |
Origin of high-flying
From high + flying.
Words that rhyme with high-flying
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- bespying
- buying
- clying
- complying
- decrying
- defying
- denying
- descrying
- dyeing
- espying
- forbuying
- frying
- goodbyeing
- highing
- implying
- lyeing
- lying
- mistrying
- nighing
- outvying
- pieing
- plying
- prying
- rebuying
- redyeing
- refrying
- relying
- replying
- retrying
- retying
- scrying
- shanghaiing
- shying
- sighing
- skying
- speed flying
- spying
- stying
- supplying
- thighing
- unbuying
- uncrying
- undrying
- undyeing
- undying
- unflying
- unfrying
- unlying
Questions about high-flying
- What does high-flying mean?
- High-flying means characteristic of a highflier; extravagant in conduct or opinion.
- What part of speech is high-flying?
- High-flying is an adjective.
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