Word Meanings - LOFTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Lifted high up; having great height; towering; high. See lofty Lebanon his head advance. Pope. 2. Fig.: Elevated in character, rank, dignity, spirit, bearing, language, etc.; exalted; noble; stately; characterized by pride; haughty. The high

Additional info about word: LOFTY

1. Lifted high up; having great height; towering; high. See lofty Lebanon his head advance. Pope. 2. Fig.: Elevated in character, rank, dignity, spirit, bearing, language, etc.; exalted; noble; stately; characterized by pride; haughty. The high and lofty One, that inhabiteth eternity. Is. lvii. 15. Lofty and sour to them that loved him not. Shak. Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. Milton. Syn. -- Tall; high; exalted; dignified; stately; majestic; sublime; proud; haughty. See Tall.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LOFTY)

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• Difficult
• hard
• lofty
• onerous
• laborious
• steep
• precipitous
• Giddy
• Whirling
• vertiginous
• thoughtless
• inconstant
• unsteady
• beetling
• dizzy
• hare-brained
• flighty
• Grand
• Large
• dignified
• imposing
• important
• eventful
• magnificent
• grandly
• majestic
• august
• exalted
• stately
• splendid
• elevated
• pompous
• gorgeous
• sublime
• superb
• High
• Elevated
• tall
• eminent
• excellent
• noble
• haughty
• violent
• proud
• Lordly
• Lofty
• imperious

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of LOFTY)

• Air
• dry
• ventilate
• fan
• sun
• aridity
• exsiccate

Related words: (words related to LOFTY)

• MAGNIFICENTLY
  In a Magnificent manner.
• ONEROUS
  Burdensome; oppressive. "Too onerous a solicitude." I. Taylor. Onerous cause , a good and legal consideration; -- opposed to gratuitous.
• SPLENDIDIOUS
  Splendid.
• IMPOSABLE
  Capable of being imposed or laid on. Hammond.
• WHIRLBONE
  The huckle bone. The patella, or kneepan. Ainsworth.
• ARIDITY
  1. The state or quality of being arid or without moisture; dryness. 2. Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought. Norris.
• GRANDEUR
  The state or quality of being grand; vastness; greatness; splendor; magnificence; stateliness; sublimity; dignity; elevation of thought or expression; nobility of action. Nor doth this grandeur and majestic show Of luxury . . . allure mine eye.
• GORGEOUS
  Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent. Cloud-land, gorgeous land. Coleridge. Gogeous as the sun at midsummer. Shak. -- Gor"geous*ly, adv. -- Gor"geous*ness, n. (more info) luxurious; cf. OF. gorgias ruff,
• PROUDLING
  A proud or haughty person. Sylvester.
• LABORIOUS
  1. Requiring labor, perseverance, or sacrifices; toilsome; tiresome. Dost thou love watchings, abstinence, or toil, Laborious virtues all Learn these from Cato. Addison. 2. Devoted to labor; diligent; industrious; as, a laborious mechanic.
• VENTILATE
  brandish in the air, to fan, to winnow, from ventus wind; akin to E. 1. To open and expose to the free passage of air; to supply with fresh air, and remove impure air from; to air; as, to ventilate a room; to ventilate a cellar; to ventilate a
• IMPOSSIBLE
  An impossibility. "Madam," quoth he, "this were an impossible!" Chaucer.
• GIDDY
  silly, AS. gidig, of unknown origin, cf. Norw. gidda to shake, 1. Having in the head a sensation of whirling or reeling about; having lost the power of preserving the balance of the body, and therefore wavering and inclined to fall; lightheaded;
• GRANDEESHIP
  The rank or estate of a grandee; lordship. H. Swinburne.
• WHIRLWIND
  1. A violent windstorm of limited extent, as the tornado, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air. It usually has a rapid progressive motion. The swift dark whirlwind that uproots
• PROUD
  prout, prud, prut, AS. prut; akin to Icel. pruedhr stately, handsome, 1. Feeling or manifesting pride, in a good or bad sense; as: Possessing or showing too great self-esteem; overrating one's excellences; hence, arrogant; haughty; lordly;
• GRANDMA; GRANDMAMMA
  A grand mother.
• IMPOSE
  A command; injunction. Shak.
• BEETLESTOCK
  The handle of a beetle.
• GRANDUNCLE
  father's or mother's uncle.
• BARK BEETLE
  A small beetle of many species , which in the larval state bores under or in the bark of trees, often doing great damage.
• CLICK BEETLE
  See ELATER
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an