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high
Synonyms and Antonyms of high
- as the highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest is mountaineering's holy grail
- gasoline prices are high right now
- a high fever
- people with high incomes
- an eagle's nest high on the cliff
- an old house with high ceilings
depressed, descendant (also descendent), descending, down, dropped, fallen, grounded, lowered, sunken
- a cabal of self-proclaimed Luddites who argued that the evils of high technology far outweighed its virtues
full-blown, full-fledged, full-scale
aged, grown, mature, matured, perfected, ripe, ripened
civilized, educated, enhanced, enlightened
contemporary, current, cutting-edge, latest, leading-edge, mod, modern, new, newest, newfangled, new-fashioned, novel, now, present-day, recent, space-age, supermodern, ultramodern, up-to-date
green, immature, underdeveloped, undersized (also undersize), underweight, unripe, unripened
savage, uncivilized, uneducated
early, embryonic, germinal, primeval, primordial
antediluvian, antiquated, antique, dated, fusty, hoary, musty, Neanderthal (or Neandertal), obsolete, old, oldfangled, old-fashioned, old-time, out-of-date, outworn, passé, past
- not only has he never been high, he has never even tasted alcohol
besotted, blasted [slang], blind, blitzed [slang], blotto [slang], bombed, boozy, canned [slang], cockeyed, crocked, drunk, drunken, fried, gassed, hammered [slang], impaired, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, juiced [slang], lit, lit up, loaded [slang], looped, oiled [slang], pickled, pie-eyed, plastered, potted [slang], ripped [slang], sloshed [slang], smashed [slang], sottish, soused, sozzled, squiffed (or squiffy), stewed, stiff, stinking [slang], stoned, tanked [slang], tiddly [chiefly British], tight, tipsy, wasted [slang], wet, wiped out [slang]
- the concert tickets weren't cheap—you don't even want to know how high they were
big-ticket, costly, dear, expensive, extravagant, high-end, high-ticket, precious, premium, priceless, pricey (also pricy), spendy [chiefly Northwest], ultraexpensive, valuable
- she had the highest intentions, but her "help" turned out to be a disaster
- high government officials
- lord high executioner
controlling, directing, managing, officiating, overseeing, regnant, reigning, ruling, supervisory
main, major, paramount, predominant, predominate, sovereign (also sovran)
ascendant (also ascendent), dominant, grand, superior, topmost, upmost, upper, uppermost
- he's clean now, but when he was younger he used to get high every day
blasted [slang], blitzed [slang], bombed, hopped-up, loaded [slang], ripped [slang], spaced-out (or spaced), stoned, strung out, wasted [slang], wiped out [slang], zonked, zonked-out
Synonym Discussion of high
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- a high hill
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- a high ceiling
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- a tall thin man
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- lofty mountain peaks
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Synonyms and Antonyms of high
- after he had won the lottery Philip lived pretty high—until all the money was gone
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Synonyms and Antonyms of high
- it took days for the high of the World Series win to wear off
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