HIGH AND LOW Synonyms: 15 Similar and Opposite Words

high and low

adverb

Definition of high and low

as in everywhere

in every place or in all places I've been looking high and low for my glasses

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nowhere

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Recent Examples of high and low The district also has a recess policy for days with high and low temperatures. — Arkansas Online, 11 Aug. 2026 Culture was being democratized and flattened by the internet, where high and low culture existed in exactly the same space. — Steven Johnson, Washington Post, 14 July 2026 Clampdown’s founder has looked high and low for something other than PVC, or at least a better way of using it. — Kyle Devine, Longreads, 14 July 2026 The phenomenon occurs when there is unstable air created by high and low-pressure systems coming together, and moisture forms high above the ground while the air near the ground remains dry. — Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 9 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for high and low

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Adverb

But in his first flush of success in the late 1960s and early 1970s, his murallike tableaus of flowers, the cosmos and cartoonish figures -- all in vivid colors like turquoise, orange and neon green -- seemed to be everywhere.

— BETH J. HARPAZ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Arkansas Online, 18 Sep. 2026
Temperatures peak at 90 degrees in Orlando and Leesburg, while being in the high 80s everywhere else.

— Garfield Hylton, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of everywhere

Adverb

Its tale of a Zainichi assassin (an ethnic Korean in Japan), as well as fraying political tensions between the North and South, take its characters far and wide, in a follow-the-money treasure hunt dangerously close to the halls of power.

— Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 20 Sep. 2026
Onshoring hasn’t taken off as a runaway trend even as the current political administration exacts punishing duties on offshore production markets far and wide.

— Kate Nishimura, Footwear News, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of far and wide

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