* enPR: hī, IPA(key): /haɪ/ * Rhymes: -aɪ * Homophones: hi, hie

From Middle English _hiȝe_, _huȝe_, _huiȝe_, _huie_, _hige_, from Old English _hyġe_ (“thought, mind, heart, disposition, intention, courage, pride”), from Proto-Germanic _*hugiz_ (“mind, sense”), of unknown origin. Cognate with North Frisian _huwggje_ (“mind, sense”), Middle Low German _höge_, _hoge_ (“thought, meaning, mood, happiness”), Middle High German _hüge_, _huge_, _hoge_ (“mind, spirit, memory”), Danish _hu_ (“mind”), Swedish _håg_ (“mind, inclination”), Icelandic _hugur_ (“mind”). Related to Hugh. NOUN HIGH (_plural_ HIGHS) * (obsolete) Thought; intention; determination; purpose.

From Middle English _high_, _heigh_, _heih_, from Old English _hēah_ (“high, tall, lofty, high-class, exalted, sublime, illustrious, important, proud, haughty, deep, right”), from Proto-Germanic _*hauhaz_ (“high”), from Proto-Indo-European _*kewk-_ (“to bend, curve, arch, vault”), a suffixed form of _*kew-_. Cognate with Scots _heich_ (“high”), Eastern Frisian _hag_ (“high”), West Frisian _heech_ (“high”), Dutch _hoog_ (“high”), Low German _hog_ (“high”), German _hoch_ (“high”), Swedish _hög_ (“high”), Icelandic _hár_ (“high”), Lithuanian _kaukas_ (“bump, boil, sore”), Russian _куча_ (kúcha, “pile, heap, stack, lump”). ALTERNATIVE FORMS * hi (informal) ADJECTIVE HIGH (_comparative_ HIGHER, _superlative_ HIGHEST) * Elevated in position or status; above many things. _The balloon rose HIGH in the sky._ * Tall, lofty, at a great distance above the ground (at high altitude). * (figuratively) Noble, especially of motives, intentions, etc. * (slang) Under the psychological effects of a mood-affecting drug, especially marijuana, or (less common) alcohol. * Of a quantity or value, great or large. _My bank charges me a HIGH interest rate._ * (acoustics) Of greater frequency, i.e. with more rapid wave oscillations. _The note was too HIGH for her to sing._ * (of a body of water) With tall waves. * (of meat, especially venison) Strong-scented; slightly tainted/spoiled; beginning to decompose. _Epicures do not cook game before it is HIGH._ _The tailor liked his meat HIGH._ * Of great strength, force, importance, etc.; mighty; powerful; sometimes, triumphant; victorious; majestic, etc. _a HIGH wind; HIGH passions_ * Bible, Psalms lxxxix. 13 Strong is thy hand, and HIGH is thy right hand. * Dryden Can heavenly minds such HIGH resentment show? * Thackeray with rather a HIGH manner * Arrogant; lofty; boastful; proud. * Bible, Proverbs xxi. 4 An HIGH look and a proud heart […] is sin. * Clarendon His forces, after all the HIGH discourses, amounted really but to eighteen hundred foot. * Very abstract; difficult to comprehend or surmount. * Shakespeare to hear and answer such HIGH things * Wordsworth Plain living and HIGH thinking are no more. * (phonetics) Made with a high position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate. * Possessing a characteristic quality in a supreme or superior degree. _HIGH (i.e. intense) heat; HIGH (i.e. full or quite) noon; HIGH (i.e. rich or spicy) seasoning; HIGH (i.e. complete) pleasure; HIGH (i.e. deep or vivid) colour; HIGH (i.e. extensive, thorough) scholarship_ * Spenser HIGH time it is this war now ended were. * Baker HIGH sauces and spices are fetched from the Indies. ANTONYMS * low DERIVED TERMS Look at pages starting with high. TRANSLATIONS SEE ALSO * mighty ADVERB HIGH (_comparative_ HIGHER, _superlative_ HIGHEST) * In or to an elevated position. _How HIGH above land did you fly?_ * In or at a great value. _Costs have grown HIGHER this year again._ * In a pitch of great frequency. _I certainly can't sing that HIGH._ USAGE NOTES * The adverb HIGH and the adverb HIGHLY shouldn't be confused. _He hung the picture HIGH on the wall._ _As a politician, he isn't esteemed too HIGHLY._ TRANSLATIONS NOUN HIGH (_plural_ HIGHS) * A period of euphoria, from excitement or from an intake of drugs. * 2013, Daniel Taylor, _Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic climbs highest to sink Benfica_ (in _The Guardian_, 15 May 2013)[2] They will have to reflect on a seventh successive defeat in a European final while Chelsea try to make sense of an eccentric season rife with controversy and bad feeling but once again one finishing on an exhilarating HIGH. _That pill gave me a HIGH for a few hours, before I had a comedown._ * A drug

See _hie_. VERB HIGH (_third-person singular simple present_ HIGHS, _present participle_ HIGHING, _simple past and past participle_ HIGHED) * To hie; to hasten. * Holland Men must HIGH them apace, and make haste.