Synonyms Dictionary
3. expensive, exorbitant, costly, dear, high-priced, of great price, Inf stiff, Inf. steep.
4. exalted, eminent, prominent, significant, important, influential, distinguished, notable; conspicuous, preeminent, august, ranking, rank-bearing, noble, ruling, powerful.
5. chief, dominant, leading, main, major; prime, primary, principal, cardinal, first; uppermost, foremost, capital.
6. grave, serious, earnest, weighty, heavy, deep, momentous, telling, far-reaching; urgent, pressing, crucial, essential, vital, critical, crying, desperate.
7. haughty, lofty, arrogant. See high-and-mighty.
8. elated, ecstatic, transported, rhapsodic, enraptured, merry, jolly, gay, happy, in high spirits, exultant, gleeful, mirthful; hilarious, joyous, jovial, jocose, playful, light-hearted; happy as a king, happy as a goat in a can factory, happy as a clam at high tide, happy as a lark, happy as can be, in high feather, happy as a child on Christmas morning, overjoyed; Inf. intoxicated, Inf. drug-affected, SI. turned on, SI. tripping, SI. grooving.
9. rich, grand, extravagant, luxurious, lavish; sybaritic, intemperate, prodigal, wasteful, marked by conspicuous consumption. high-and-mighty, adj. 1. haughty, arrogant, excessively proud, self-important, presumptuous, fastuous, proud, vainglorious, overconfident, overweening; conceited, snobbish, Inf. stuck-up, Inf. uppish, Inf. uppity, on one's high horse; pompous, egotistic, lofty, Inf. toplofty; condescending, disdainful, supercilious, cavalier, contemptuous, scornful.
2. affected, showy, flashy, ostentatious, Inf. hoity-toity, peacockish, foppish, dandified.
3. imperious, overbearing, domineering, highhanded; dictatorial, despotic, authoritative, dogmatic, magisterial.
4. brazen, impudent, insolent, defiant, rude, audacious, impertinent; swaggering, blustering, Inf. pushy, bumptious, self-assertive, self-assured, self-assuming.
5. excessive, exaggerated, immoderate, intemperate, extravagant; high-flown, Inf. highfalutin, preposterous, unconscionable, disproportionate; unreasonable, undue, unfounded, uncalled-for, unwarranted. highbinder, n. 1. swindler, sharper, sharpie, bilker, shark, diddler, chiseler, cheat, cheater; confidence man, SI. con man, SI. flimflam man; crook, bandit, desperado, outlaw, bad guy; badman, criminal, felon.
2. malfeasant, bribe-taker, Law. misfeasor; corruptionist, corrupt official or politician, abuser; malefactor, wrongdoer, offender, Brit. SI. bad hat. highborn, adj. aristocratic, patrician, blue-blooded, silk-stocking; noble, well-born, gentle, genteel; royal, princely, kingly, titled; (all of animals) thoroughbred, pedigreed, purebred, highbred. high-class, adj. superior, top-flight, A-one, first-rate, tiptop, tops, Inf. super; above-average, upper-class, above-the-milling-throng; luxurious, deluxe, elegant, sumptuous, posh. high-flown, adj. grandiloquent, grandiose, magniloquent, extravagant, lofty, vaulting, high-sounding, Johnsonian, Ossianic, sonorous, sesquipedalian; bombastic, bombastical, inflated, swollen, bloated, flatulent, turgid, plethoric; overdrawn, overdone, exaggerated, hyperbolic, Inf too-too; pretentious, affected, pompous, condescending, Inf. highfalutin, Inf. la-di-da, Inf. high-hat; euphuistic, flowery, florid, ornate, ostentatious, showy, flashy, flamboyant, high-handed, adj. arbitrary, despotic, tyrannical, autocratic, dictatorial; peremptory, imperious, lordly, ironhanded; demanding, severe, oppressive; inexorable, unbending, implacable, pitiless, not giving a whit; capricious, whimsical, unreasonable; overbearing, arrogant, haughty, disdainful, contemptuous.
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