variants or less commonly high quality
higher-quality also higher quality; highest-quality also highest quality
: very good of its kind : being of high quality
a very high-quality product
uses high-quality materials/ingredients
received a high-quality education
When people do need health services, those services must be accessible, affordable and high-quality.—Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
The best noise-canceling headphones deliver high-quality sound and filter out all the external noise and distractions.—Jeffrey Harper
You will be able to remain calm under pressure and produce consistently high quality work.—paralleldesk.com

Examples of high-quality in a Sentence

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The improvement demonstrates how low-noise lasers and high-quality optical resonators can increase rotation sensitivity on a photonic chip. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2026 The Developmental Psychology findings suggest that higher-quality friendships are associated with less overt victimization and greater comfort-seeking over time. — Ashley Lynch, Charlotte Observer, 15 Oct. 2026 But until recently, most automatic speech recognition (ASR) services with high-quality transcription only worked for a small number of them. — Richard Eisenberg, Time, 15 Oct. 2026 To put it simply, this was a high-quality company that needed to prove itself again, not a company that was lucky to be successful and was now seeing its luck run out. — Zev Fima, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for high-quality

Word History

First Known Use

1881, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of high-quality was in 1881

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“High-quality.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/high-quality. Accessed 17 Oct. 2026.

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