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highish

highish adjective: somewhat high.

Adjective

highish (comparative more highish, superlative most highish)

  1. Somewhat high.
    • Reading Barron, though, I realized that part of the reason his stories leave me cold is that they assume, as too much genre fiction does, a highish level of reader credulity, and I resent it.2008 January 27, Terrence Rafferty, “Doesn’t Scare Easily”, in New York Times

Forms of highish

comparativemore highish
superlativemost highish

Origin of highish

From high + -ish.

Questions about highish

What does highish mean?
Highish means somewhat high.
What part of speech is highish?
Highish is an adjective.

Words near highish in the dictionary

  1. highhandedness
  2. highhearted
  3. highheartedly
  4. highheartedness
  5. highing
  6. highish
  7. highjack
  8. highjacked
  9. highjacker
  10. highjackers
  11. highjacking

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