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HIGH-MINDED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does high-minded mean?
• HIGH-MINDED (adjective)
The adjective HIGH-MINDED has 1 sense:
1. of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style
Familiarity information: HIGH-MINDED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style
Synonyms:
elevated; exalted; grand; high-flown; high-minded; idealistic; lofty; noble-minded; rarefied; rarified; sublime
Context example:
a grand purpose
Similar:
noble (having or showing or indicative of high or elevated character)
Derivation:
high-mindedness (elevated ideals or conduct; the quality of believing that ideals should be pursued)
Context examples
The Press and the Public are but vague personifications for me, and I must thank them in vague terms; but my Publishers are definite: so are certain generous critics who have encouraged me as only large-hearted and high-minded men know how to encourage a struggling stranger; to them, i.e., to my Publishers and the select Reviewers, I say cordially, Gentlemen, I thank you from my heart.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Her exertions did not stop here; for she soon afterwards felt herself so heroically disposed as to determine, under pretence of fetching Marianne, to leave the others by themselves; and she really did it, and THAT in the handsomest manner, for she loitered away several minutes on the landing-place, with the most high-minded fortitude, before she went to her sister.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
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