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high key

high key is the alternative form of high-key.

Meaning of high-key

Adjective

high-key (comparative more high-key, superlative most high-key)

  1. Characterized by light tones and the absence of a shadow.
    • Details are tremendously important in composing an outstanding high-key photograph.1942 November, Victor Keppler, “Key to Good Pictures”, in Popular Photography, →ISSN, page 29

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Forms of high key

comparativemore high key
superlativemost high key

Questions about high key

What is high key the alternative form of?
High key is the alternative form of high-key.

Words near high key in the dictionary

  1. high juices
  2. high jump
  3. high jumper
  4. high jumpers
  5. High Katu
  6. high key
  7. High Kilburn
  8. high king
  9. high kings
  10. high kingship
  11. high kingships

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