high-grade

adjective

ˈhī-ˈgrād 

1

: of superior grade or quality

high-grade bonds

2

a

: being near the upper or most favorable extreme of a specified range

b

: medically serious or life-threatening

a high-grade tumor

Examples of high-grade in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The high-grade market typically has a deeper pool of investors and offers cheaper financing, and would be more easily able to absorb a large financing of this size. —Natalie Harrison, Fortune, 8 Dec. 2025

Large reserves of high-grade potash are more than a mile and a half underground in north-central Michigan. —Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 8 Dec. 2025

Meta, for instance, recently sold $30 billion of bonds in the largest public high-grade corporate debt deal of the year and arranged a roughly $30 billion private financing package. —Bloomberg, Mercury News, 2 Dec. 2025

Several projects in the region have already reported high-grade drill results in recent years. —Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 26 Nov. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1826, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for high-grade

• afraid
• allayed
• arcade
• arrayed
• assayed
• barmaid
• betrayed
• blockade
• bridesmaid
• brigade
• brocade
• buffeted

Kids Definition

high-grade

adjective

ˈhī-ˈgrād

: of a better grade or quality

Medical Definition

high-grade

adjective

ˈhī-ˈgrād 

: being near the upper, most serious, or most life-threatening extreme of a specified range

high-grade gliomas

high-grade cervical dysplasia

compare low-grade