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HIGHFLYING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does highflying mean?
• HIGHFLYING (adjective)
The adjective HIGHFLYING has 2 senses:
1. moving upward or along at a considerable height
2. extravagant or ambitious or extreme in aims or opinions
Familiarity information: HIGHFLYING used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Moving upward or along at a considerable height
Context example:
some highflying fighter pilot fired a cannon shell into it
Similar:
ascending (moving or going or growing upward)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Extravagant or ambitious or extreme in aims or opinions
Context example:
they did not understand what had happend at the once highflying company
Similar:
unrestrained (not subject to restraint)
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