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high-stepping

high-stepping is the present participle and gerund of high-step.

Adjective

high-stepping (not comparable)

  1. Of a horse, that walks or trots lifting its legs very high off the ground.
  2. (broadly) Moving proudly.
    • On a journey across the flat Fenlands from Spalding to Nottingham my train was made up of six modern ex-L.M.S.R. corridor coaches behind a high-stepping 0-6-0 of Class "J1", a Doncaster mixed-traffic design of 1908.1950 October, R. S. McNaught, “Joys of the Unexpected”, in Railway Magazine, page 690

Meaning of high-step

Verb

high-step (third-person singular simple present high-steps, present participle high-stepping, simple past and past participle high-stepped)

  1. (transitive) To raise the knees so as to approach or step over.
  2. (intransitive) To raise the knees higher than normal.

Questions about high-stepping

What does high-stepping mean?
High-stepping means of a horse, that walks or trots lifting its legs very high off the ground.
What is high-stepping the present participle and gerund of?
High-stepping is the present participle and gerund of high-step.
What part of speech is high-stepping?
High-stepping is an adjective.

Words near high-stepping in the dictionary

  1. high-status
  2. high-step
  3. high-stepped
  4. high-stepper
  5. high-steppers
  6. high-stepping
  7. high-steps
  8. high-stick
  9. high-sticked
  10. high-sticking
  11. high-sticks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: high-stepping (page history and authors); high-step (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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