Lofty
['lɒftɪ] or ['lɔfti]
Definition
(superl.) Lifted high up; having great height; towering; high.
(superl.) Fig.: Elevated in character, rank, dignity, spirit, bearing, language, etc.; exalted; noble; stately; characterized by pride; haughty.
Typed by Essie
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. High, elevated.[2]. Proud, haughty, arrogant, magisterial.[3]. Sublime, dignified.
Typist: Shelby
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Elevated, towering, high, dignified, eminent, stately, haughty, majestic, airy,tall
ANT:Depressed, low, stunted, undignified, ordinary, unstately, mean, unimposing,unassuming, affable
Inputed by Cole
Examples
- The lofty gateways are graced with statues, and the broad floors are all laid in polished flags of marble. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I replied it was not the stature, but the intellect was too lofty. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Little white villages surrounded by trees, nestle in the valleys or roost upon the lofty perpendicular sea-walls. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Being lofty about the passing fad and the ephemeral outcry is all very well in the biographies of dead men, but rank nonsense in the rulers of real ones. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Becky admired him smiling sumptuously, easy, lofty, and stately. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- You sneer, perhaps; and you take a lofty air upon yourself perhaps! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- From my infancy I was imbued with high hopes and a lofty ambition; but how am I sunk! Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I was upon the highest peak of a lofty range. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- I AWOKE in the morning, just as the higher windows of the lofty houses received the first beams of the rising sun. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- And with that she raised her head, lofty in look and statue-like in hue, as Louis had described it. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- A list of the genera of plants collected on the loftier peaks of Java, raises a picture of a collection made on a hillock in Europe. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- It will help in the consummation of man’s loftiest dreams of world friendship and world peace. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This bossy projection of earth above its natural level occupied the loftiest ground of the loneliest height that the heath contained. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- They were all three of the loftiest stature of women. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
Typist: Willie