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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Of imposing height.
  2. adj. Elevated in character; exalted.
  3. adj. Affecting grandness; pompous.
  4. adj. Arrogant; haughty.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Raised in space or dimensions; lifted high up; elevated; very high.
  2. Elevated in condition, character, or quality; raised above the common level; characterized by eminence, dignity, sublimity, etc.; exalted; impressive.
  3. Elevated in conceit; manifesting pride or arrogance; haughty; ostentatious.
  4. Synonyms High, etc. See tall.
  5. Sublime, exalted, stately, majestic. See grand.
  6. Arrogant, magisterial.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. high, tall, having great height or stature
  2. adj. idealistic, implying over-optimism
  3. adj. extremely proud

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Lifted high up; having great height; towering; high.
  2. adj. Fig.: Elevated in character, rank, dignity, spirit, bearing, language, etc.; exalted; noble; stately; characterized by pride; haughty.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. of imposing height; especially standing out above others
  2. adj. of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style
  3. adj. having or displaying great dignity or nobility

Etymologies

  1. Middle English, noble, from loft ("upstairs room, sky"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, noble, from loft, upstairs room, sky; see loft. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Now, now, you needn't hesitate at taking what I call a lofty salary, for it always was my way to pay down handsome.”

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  • “She had not shown any astonishment at what she called my lofty intellect; she had always believed in it; she had praised it unreasonably.”

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  • “Politics has always been about “I am privileged, you are not” as seen in lofty chambers of Parliament.”

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  • “You will never find such as these on your path, if your thoughts remain lofty, if a fine emotion touches your spirit and your body.”

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  • “These are brown shirts, egomaniacs who mask their lust for total domination and the dismantling of democracy in lofty patriotic rhetoric, which has no meaning to them except as a tool to numb the masses, or to manipulate them emotionally.”

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  • “Republicans have packaged their bullshit in lofty sounding names for years … about time the Democrats start relabeling it.”

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  • “In what ways was World War I an attempt to clothe base instincts in lofty purposes?”

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  • “You will never find such as these on your path if your thoughts remain lofty, if a fine emotion touches your spirit and your body.”

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  • “His father, who might have taught him some adult alternatives, preferred to spend his family time in lofty, disapproving silence.”

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  • “Tejada's distinction hitting a grand slam as part of the cycle puts him in lofty statistical company.”

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synonyms (14)

Words with the same meaning

  1. haughty
  2. dignified
  1. majestic
  2. stately
  1. sublime
  2. proud
  1. high
  2. tall
  1. exalted
  2. towering
  1. noble
  2. elevated
  1. generous
  2. bombastic

equivalents (3)

Other words for ‘lofty’

  1. high
  1. noble
  1. impressive

same context (8)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. grand
  1. majestic
  1. sublime
  1. broad
  1. sacred
  1. solemn
  1. rocky
  1. gloomy

reverse dictionary (198)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. tall
  2. sublime
  3. hautein
  4. brave
  5. low
  6. jet
  7. majestic
  8. hand tree
  9. magnanimous
  10. excelsior
  11. eyrie
  12. west indian mastic
  13. exalted
  14. lowly
  15. high-built
  16. eminence
  17. eminent
  18. dryobalanops
  19. loft
  20. loftily
  21. loftiness
  22. humble
  23. great
  24. haughty
  25. hault
  26. high
  27. high art
  28. high-embowed
  29. high-stomached
  30. hilly
  31. Khaya
  32. kite
  33. cockhorse
  34. grandiloquence
  35. grandiloquent
  36. juvia
  37. jolly-jumper
  38. paho
  39. peneplain
  1. topless
  2. towery
  3. wingy
  4. blowhole
  5. bridle
  6. magniloquence
  7. magniloquent
  8. majestically
  9. procere
  10. proudly
  11. reachless
  12. superconscious
  13. supralunar
  14. balloon
  15. reBlog
  16. rarefied
  17. arduous
  18. gaydiang
  19. aery
  20. altiloquence
  21. altisonant
  22. bombastic
  23. cloud-capped
  24. cloud-kissing
  25. Dantesque
  26. eardrop-tree
  27. grandly
  28. haut
  29. heroicomic
  30. highflying
  31. high-palmed
  32. low-minded
  33. enthrone
  34. elevated
  35. stately
  36. high-flown
  37. rapture
  38. largess
  39. aerial
  1. almendron
  2. alp
  3. Alpine
  4. altitudinarian
  5. flight
  6. flourish
  7. acrocephaly
  8. tittup
  9. tumid
  10. turgid
  11. ivory tower
  12. nuts and bolts
  13. sweep
  14. orotund
  15. pseudotsuga menziesii
  16. sequoia gigantea
  17. sequoia sempervirens
  18. sequoia wellingtonia
  19. sequoiadendron giganteum
  20. shoot for
  21. sierra redwood
  22. strut
  23. sublimely
  24. swagger
  25. airy
  26. grand
  27. pursue
  28. palisade
  29. topful
  30. declamatory
  31. douglas hemlock
  32. douglas pine
  33. douglas spruce
  34. draw a bead on
  35. eyry
  36. giant fir
  37. giant sequoia
  38. grand fir
  39. green douglas fir
  1. large
  2. lowland fir
  3. lowland white fir
  4. Oregon fir
  5. Oregon pine
  6. pinnacle
  7. prance
  8. ruffle
  9. sashay
  10. abies grandis
  11. aerie
  12. aim
  13. altitudinous
  14. aspire
  15. big tree
  16. california redwood
  17. coast redwood
  18. cock
  19. highness
  20. minaret
  21. miter
  22. monkey's puzzle
  23. ounce
  24. pride
  25. round tower
  26. Australian sassafras
  27. scorn
  28. sell
  29. shot tower
  30. silky oak
  31. skyish
  32. snow pheasant
  33. steep
  34. steep-up
  35. supercilious
  36. tamarind
  37. tower
  38. white cedar
  39. winged
  1. yakin
  2. ziggurat
  3. zikkurat
  4. air
  5. anger
  6. arrogance
  7. attribute
  8. babel
  9. behavior
  10. big
  11. butternut
  12. caryocar
  13. deep
  14. dignified
  15. dillenia
  16. eagerness
  17. farallon
  18. Greek
  19. high-minded
  20. lift
  21. lordly
  22. magisterial
  23. noble
  24. occupation
  25. pompous
  26. proud
  27. quality
  28. rambutan
  29. reason
  30. sentiment
  31. sounding
  32. stalk
  33. steeple
  34. superb
  35. supereminent
  36. mainsail
  37. Maire
  38. teocote
  39. topping
  1. towering
  2. upstart
  3. venerable

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  • pradyumnaojha Kimsuk has an extremely lofty opinion oh himself. Feb 15, 2013

  • pikachu Trees, trees, millions of trees, massive, immense, running up high; and at their foot, hugging the bank against the stream, crept the little begrimed steamboat, like a sluggish beetle crawling on the floor of a lofty portico.

    --Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad Mar 9, 2011

  • Prolagus Lovesick, it came back upon yourself
    You are the one left on the shelf
    You are incapable of playing the fool
    Longing so what's different today?
    You sent the boy and girl away
    You are concerned with matters lofty.

    (Mayfly, by Belle and Sebastian) Aug 24, 2008

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