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high-heeled

high-heeled adjective: having tall heels. Also the simple past and past participle of high-heel.

high-heeled: having tall heels
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Adjective

high-heeled (not comparable)

  1. (footwear) Having tall heels.
    • For instance, impressions in the earth, of a certain size, shape, and pattern, would normally be sufficient evidence for a confident belief that a woman had walked over the ground wearing high-heeled shoes.1987, Robert Merrihew Adams, “Berkeley and Epistemology”, in Ernest Sosa, editor, Essays on the Philosophy of George Berkeley, page 145
    • I preferred to think about school and a government job and how I would one day put on high-heeled shoes and wear a long skirt like other girls.2011, Elizabeth Ngozi Okpalaenwe, The Power to Succeed, page 7
    Synonyms:
    high-heel
  2. Wearing high heels.
    • Within moments the high-heeled workers of Data Air are ensconced in the air conditioned hum of their "open office."2000, Carla Freeman, High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy: Women, Work, and Pink-Collar Identities in the Caribbean, page 1
    • By all logic, high-heeled women should not constitute a threat: but they do.2002, Paula Rabinowitz, Black & White & Noir: America's Pulp Modernism, page 174

Also used as

high-heeled is also the simple past and past participle of high-heel.

Examples of high-heeled in a sentence

  • They wore designer clothes, white, tight, hip-huggers, and low neck blouses, high-heeled shoes, especially in the winters when they wore those sexy high-heeled boots, and tight jeans.2011, Mickey Demos, Life in Mani Today: The Road to Freedom, page 229:
  • High-heeled shoes are not typically constructed to accommodate the average male's heft, foot size, or gait.2015, Eve Shapiro, Gender Circuits: Bodies and Identities in a Technological Age, page 55:

Synonyms of high-heeled

Questions about high-heeled

What does high-heeled mean?
High-heeled means having tall heels.
How do you use high-heeled in a sentence?
They wore designer clothes, white, tight, hip-huggers, and low neck blouses, high-heeled shoes, especially in the winters when they wore those sexy high-heeled boots, and tight jeans.
What part of speech is high-heeled?
High-heeled is an adjective.

Words near high-heeled in the dictionary

  1. high-hatting
  2. high-hearted
  3. high-heartedly
  4. high-heartedness
  5. high-heel
  6. high-heeled
  7. high-heeling
  8. high-heels
  9. high-holder
  10. high-holders
  11. high-hole

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