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highminded

highminded is the alternative form of high-minded.

Meaning of high-minded

Adjective

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

  1. Given to idealism.
    • Walter was the ideal—generous, high-minded, clear in perception; but sensitive, even weak, in action; or, rather, too apt to imagine a world full of lofty aims and noble impulses, and then fancying that was the world in which he had to live.1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Author and the Actress”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 106
  2. Refined, cultured, particularly civilized.
    • After the pause for much more self-deprecating laughter and with everyone listening, Salmond rounded off his story on a high-minded note. The hospital near that village is also powered by the same hydro project, he told them.2014 September 8, Michael White, “Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe”, in The Guardian
  3. Proud or arrogant.
  4. Magnanimous.

Forms of highminded

comparativemore highminded
superlativemost highminded

Questions about highminded

What is highminded the alternative form of?
Highminded is the alternative form of high-minded.

Words near highminded in the dictionary

  1. highly superior autobiographical memory
  2. highly-enriched uranium
  3. highly-strung
  4. highman
  5. highmen
  6. highminded
  7. highmindedly
  8. highmindedness
  9. Highmore
  10. highmost
  11. Highnam

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