lofty
elevated in style, tone, or sentiment, as writings or speech.
arrogantly or condescendingly superior in manner; haughty: to treat someone in a lofty manner.
Nautical. noting a rig of a sailing ship having extraordinarily high masts.
(of fabric or yarn) thick and resilient.
Origin of lofty
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Other words for lofty
Opposites for lofty
Other words from lofty
- loft·i·ly, adverb
- loft·i·ness, noun
- o·ver·loft·i·ness, noun
- o·ver·loft·y, adjective
- un·loft·y, adjective
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How to use lofty in a sentence
Seeing things like bitcoin through the stratosphere, I think we’re definitely seeing some lofty parts of the market and investors should be doing their due diligence.
Dow soars more than 400 points amid Capitol turmoil | Hannah Denham | January 6, 2021 | Washington PostIt was a lofty goal, and as a result, a terribly difficult one.
Why J.P. Morgan, Berkshire Hathaway, and Amazon’s plan to shake up healthcare fell apart | Lucinda Shen | January 5, 2021 | FortuneNow, newer startups are zeroing in on different opportunities — and making loftier claims.
A massive tower of smoke generated by Australian wildfires in late 2019 set a new record for the loftiest and largest fire-spawned thunderstorms ever measured.
Towering fire-fueled thunderclouds can spew as many aerosols as volcanic eruptions | Carolyn Gramling | December 15, 2020 | Science NewsDeepMind’s lofty goal, Hassabis once said, was “to solve intelligence, and then use it to solve everything else.”
Know when to fold ’em: How a company best known for playing games used A.I. to solve one of biology’s greatest mysteries | Jeremy Kahn | November 30, 2020 | Fortune
Basically any quality of weed will do, since the extraction of THC is the point and not the flavor or loftiness of effect.
If inferior to Pindar in passion and loftiness, it glows with a more genial humanity and with purer wit.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume I | John LordIn loftiness of head-dress these ladies stoop to the daughters of the North; in richness of dress surpass them.
The Old Furniture Book | N. Hudson MooreThe first in loftiness of thought surpass'd, The next in majesty, in both the last.
The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 | Ministry of EducationIts strength, its power, its loftiness, is lodged in an almost divine attribute—indifference.
The conquest of Rome | Matilde SeraoIf Horace refused the pains of numbers, and the loftiness of figures, are they bound to follow so ill a precedent?
Dryden's Works (13 of 18): Translations; Pastorals | John Dryden
British Dictionary definitions for lofty
/ (ˈlɒftɪ) /
of majestic or imposing height
exalted or noble in character or nature
haughty or supercilious
elevated, eminent, or superior
Derived forms of lofty
- loftily, adverb
- loftiness, noun
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