| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adjective | 1. Moving upward or along at a considerable height; "some highflying fighter pilot fired a cannon shell into it".[Wordnet] 2. Extravagant or ambitious or extreme in aims or opinions; "they did not understand what had happend at the once highflying company".[Wordnet] 3. Extravagant in opinions or ambition.[Websters] 4. Being fabulous. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being extravagant. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being enthusiastic. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Being egregious. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Being mobile. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. Being mettlesome or spirited. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Rarely used base adjective of the adverb highflyingly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Form (highflyingly) |
1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective highflying.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Sources: compiled from various sources, (under license) copyright 2008. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, WordNet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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"Highflying" is a common misspelling or typo for: high-flying. |
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Date "Highflying" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1708. (references) |
Topics by Level of Interest: HIGHFLYING | ||||
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| Iranian Highflying Tumbler | 4 | Iranian Highflying Tumbler | 4 | |
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Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
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"highflying" is a common misspelling or typo for: high-flying. |
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| Position | Synonyms (sorted by strength) | |
Adjective |
enthusiastic, lively, mettlesome, mobile, spirited, vivacious, expressive, wild, ambitious, energetic, strong. Consider also: jolly, intense, sprightly, able, agile, keen, stable, steady, active, animated, boisterous, busy, cogent, forcible, gay, influential, lusty, robust. | |
Other |
egregious, extravagant, fabulous, outre, preposterous, rantipole, enthusiastical, inspired. | |
Expression |
tremblingly alive. | |
| Source: Eve, based on meta analysis. | Top | |
Computed Synonyms: highflying
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Synonyms within Context: highflying | ||
| Context | Synonyms within Context | |
Exaggeration |
Highflying, bombastic, egregious, exaggerated, extravagant, fabulous, grandiloquent, hyperbolical, on stilts, outre, overwrought, preposterous. | |
Inattention |
Highflying, bird-witted, blind, brainsick, careless, cursory, deaf, dizzy, ecervele, giddy, giddy as a goose, giddy-brained, hand over head, hare-brained, harum-scarum, heedless, inadvertent, inattentive, indifferent, listless, mindless, muzzy, neglectful, offhand, percursory, rantipole, regardless, respectless, scatter-brained, undiscerning, unheeding, unmindful, unobservant, unreflecting, unreflective, unthinking, wild. | |
Sensibility |
Highflying, alive to, enthusiastic, excitable, expressive, fastidious, gushing, impassionable, impressible, impressionable, lively, mettlesome, mobile, oversensitive, romantic, sensible, sensitive, sentimental, soft, soft hearted, spirited, susceptible, susceptive, tender as a chicken, tender hearted, thin-skinned, tremblingly alive, vivacious, warm hearted, without skin. | |
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| Language | Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses) | |||
| Bohemian | vysoko létající (highflying). Additional references: Bohemian, Czech Republic, highflying. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Brazilian Portuguese | ambicioso (ambitious, aspiring, greedy, ambitious person, covetous). Additional references: Brazilian Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, highflying. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Cestina | vysoko létající (highflying). Additional references: Cestina, Czech Republic, highflying. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Corse | ambiziosu (ambitious, big, comprehensive, conceited, flying high), imbizziusu (ambitious, big, comprehensive, conceited, flying high). Additional references: Corse, France, Italy, highflying. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Corsi | ambiziosu (ambitious, big, comprehensive, conceited, flying high), imbizziusu (ambitious, big, comprehensive, conceited, flying high). Additional references: Corsi, France, Italy, highflying. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Corsican | ambiziosu (ambitious, big, comprehensive, conceited, flying high), imbizziusu (ambitious, big, comprehensive, conceited, flying high). Additional references: Corsican, France, Italy, highflying. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Corso | ambiziosu (ambitious, big, comprehensive, conceited, flying high), imbizziusu (ambitious, big, comprehensive, conceited, flying high). Additional references: Corso, France, Italy, highflying. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Corsu | ambiziosu (ambitious, big, comprehensive, conceited, flying high), imbizziusu (ambitious, big, comprehensive, conceited, flying high). Additional references: Corsu, France, Italy, highflying. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Czech | vysoko létající (highflying). Additional references: Czech, Czech Republic, highflying. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Français | ambitieux (ambitious, ambitiously, big, careerist, challenging). Additional references: Français, France, Algeria, highflying. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| French | ambitieux (ambitious, ambitiously, big, careerist, challenging). Additional references: French, France, Algeria, highflying. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Hanguk Mal | 포부가 큰 (high-flown, high-flying, highflying), 야심적인 (ambitious, high-flown, high-flying, highflying), 높이 나는 (soaring, high-flying, highflying), 고공 비행의 (high-flying, highflying). Additional references: Hanguk Mal, Korea, South, Korea, highflying. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Hanguohua | 포부가 큰 (high-flown, high-flying, highflying), 야심적인 (ambitious, high-flown, high-flying, highflying), 높이 나는 (soaring, high-flying, highflying), 고공 비행의 (high-flying, highflying). Additional references: Hanguohua, Korea, South, Korea, highflying. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Italian | che mira in alto (highflying), ambizioso (ambitious, ambitiously, aspiring, grand, high-flier). Additional references: Italian, Italy, Croatia, highflying. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Korean | 포부가 큰 (high-flown, high-flying, highflying), 야심적인 (ambitious, high-flown, high-flying, highflying), 높이 나는 (soaring, high-flying, highflying), 고공 비행의 (high-flying, highflying). Additional references: Korean, Korea, South, Korea, highflying. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Portuguese | ambicioso (ambitious, aspiring, greedy, ambitious person, covetous). Additional references: Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, highflying. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Source: Eve, based on a combination of meta analysis and graph theory (for near and back translations). | Top | |||
| Language | Translations for “highflying” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses. | |||
| Athag | hathagighflyathagathaging (highflying). Additional references: Athag, highflying. (volunteer) | |||
| Double Dutch | hagighflyagaging (highflying). Additional references: Double Dutch, highflying. (volunteer) | |||
| Leet | }{!6}{|##y![\]6 (highflying). Additional references: Leet, highflying. (volunteer) | |||
| Oppish | hopighflyopoping (highflying). Additional references: Oppish, highflying. (volunteer) | |||
| Pig Latin | ighflyinghay (highflying). Additional references: Pig Latin, highflying. (volunteer) | |||
| Terran B | ambiziosu (highflying). Additional references: Terran B, highflying. (volunteer) | |||
| Ubbi Dubbi | hubighflyububing (highflying). Additional references: Ubbi Dubbi, highflying. (volunteer) | |||
| Source: compiled by the editor. | Top | |||
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