ENGLISH DICTIONARY

High-minded

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: High-minded is an adjective meaning Given to idealism.

Meaning

Given to idealism.

More Meanings

  1. Refined, cultured, particularly civilized.
  2. Proud or arrogant.
  3. Magnanimous.

Example Sentences

After the pause for much more self-deprecating laughter and with everyone listening, Salmond rounded off his story on a high-minded note. The hospital near that village is also powered by the same hydro project, he told them.
Walter was the ideal—generous, high-minded, clear in perception; but sensitive, even weak, in action; or, rather, too apt to imagine a world full of lofty aims and noble impulses, and then fancying that was the world in which he had to live.

Synonyms for high-minded

Depending on context, synonyms include noble, lofty, exalted, rarefied, rarified, idealistic.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include exalted, rarefied, high-flown, idealistic, lofty, noble.

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