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highest-lying

highest-lying is the superlative form of high-lying.

Meaning of high-lying

Adjective

high-lying (comparative higher-lying, superlative highest-lying)

  1. Higher than nearby areas.
    Antonyms:
    low-lying

Questions about highest-lying

What is highest-lying the superlative form of?
Highest-lying is the superlative form of high-lying.

Words near highest-lying in the dictionary

  1. highest-growth
  2. highest-income
  3. highest-intensity
  4. highest-IQ
  5. highest-level
  6. highest-lying
  7. highest-octane
  8. highest-paid
  9. highest-paying
  10. highest-performance
  11. highest-pitched

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Adapted from Wiktionary: highest-lying (page history and authors); high-lying (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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