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If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.
Helen Clark

Meaning of "heightened" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HEIGHTENED

heightened  [ˈhaɪtnd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HEIGHTENED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Heightened is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES HEIGHTENED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of heightened in the English dictionary

The definition of heightened in the dictionary is increased and intensified; greater. Other definition of heightened is raised to a higher level.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HEIGHTENED


straitened
ˈstreɪtnd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HEIGHTENED

heifer
Heifetz
heigh-ho
height
height gauge
height of land
height-to-paper
heighten
heightener
heightism
heights
Heilbronn
Heilong Jiang
Heilongjiang
Heiltsuk
Heilungkiang
Heimdal
Heimdall
Heimdallr
heimish

WORDS THAT END LIKE HEIGHTENED

chastened
darkened
disheartened
enlightened
frightened
hardened
mittened
presweetened
threatened
unchastened
unchristened
unenlightened
unfrightened
unlightened
unlistened
unmoistened
unopened
unsoftened
unsweetened
unthreatened

Synonyms and antonyms of heightened in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «HEIGHTENED»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «heightened» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of heightened

Translation of «heightened» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HEIGHTENED

Find out the translation of heightened to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of heightened from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «heightened» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

提高
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

mayor
570 millions of speakers

English

heightened
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बढ़
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تزايد
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

повышенная
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

intensificada
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অতিরিক্ত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

accrue
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Meningkat
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

verschärft
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

高められた
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

고조
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tambah dhuwur
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cao
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உச்சபட்சமான
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वाढीस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

artan
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

accresciuta
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

podwyższone
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

підвищена
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

sporită
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αυξημένη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verhoogde
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

förhöjd
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

økt
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of heightened

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HEIGHTENED»

The term «heightened» is quite widely used and occupies the 27.276 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about heightened

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10 QUOTES WITH «HEIGHTENED»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word heightened.
1
Aberjhani
Classic romantic love is an emotional attraction between two individuals in which they may share a heightened awareness of mutual adoration. Erotic love, traditionally, has been described as shared sexual attraction.
2
Mustafa Akyol
The Arab Spring has heightened the ideological tension between Ankara and Tehran, and Turkey's model seems to be winning.
3
Marcus Allen
It really lasted the whole game, because I was really untouchable, unstoppable that game. But it was heightened on one particular play, and that was the longest run where everything completely slowed down. My awareness was so keen, it was so heightened, it was really amazing.
4
R. W. Apple, Jr.
The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it.
5
Jim Bolger
So I think that we're in a very heightened and somewhat unusual period of politics and polling around the countries that New Zealanders take close interest in.
6
Bat for Lashes
I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or become someone's child. Maybe my dad disappearing was his way of giving me material with which to work, or a predisposition to feel heightened emotions.
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Helen Clark
If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.
8
Tom C. Clark
The heightened public clamor resulting from radio and television coverage will inevitably result in prejudice. Trial by television is, therefore, foreign to our system.
9
Cyril Cusack
One's performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors.
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Caleb Deschanel
You tend to compose things more in the middle of frame in 3-D than you would in a conventional frame. You can really see composition in 2-D but in 3-D your composition is much more complex. Everything has to be artificially enhanced. But you do gain something else with 3-D: you have a sense of space and heightened reality.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HEIGHTENED»

Discover the use of heightened in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to heightened and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Futures Markets: Heightened Audit Trail Standards Not Met ...
Reports on the status of compliance by the Chicago Board of Trade & the Chicago Mercantile Exchange with the existing & heightened standards as well as the Commodity Futures Trading Commission actions to enforce the Futures Trading ...
DIANE Publishing Company, 1996
2
Sheer Inspiration: 40 Daily Devotionals for Living a Life of ...
After all, the steps of a righteous man are ordered by the Lord. This book is designed to help you seek daily time with God, meditating on His word, and improving your life one day at a time. Each day has a theme and pivotal key.
Glacia Robinson, 2010
3
Decoding Speech Prosody: Do Musicians Have Heightened ...
Musical involvement is often thought of as beneficial in its own right, but recent research suggests that musicians may also benefit in other domains (e.g., linguistic, mathematical, and spatial).
Christopher Gordon Trimmer, 2006
4
Listening to Theatre: The Aural Dimension of Beijing Opera
Because heightened speech is used primarily for portraying characters of high social status and/or intrinsic dignity, it is spoken most often by older sheng, martial sheng, young sheng, blue cloth dan, martial dan, older dan, andjing. However ...
Elizabeth Wichmann, 1991
5
PR 2.0 Is Here: Combine Traditional PR with Social Media for ...
This Element nis an excerpt from PR 2.0: New Media, New Tools, New Audiences (ISBN: 9780321510075) by Deirdre Breakenridge.
Deirdre K. Breakenridge, 2009
6
Sexual Orientation and the Law
Because sexual orientation classifications meet the traditional criteria for heightened equal protection scrutiny, and because discrimination based on sexual orientation implicates precisely the kinds of concerns that the equal protection clause ...
Harvard Law Review, 1990
7
Banking Reform: Report, Together with Formal Minutes, Oral ...
It is not only the possibility that a financial firm will enter the Special Resolution Regime that would cause the Bank of England to require further information on those institutions subject to heightened supervision. There are tools available to the ...
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Treasury Committee, House of Commons, 2008
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150 Masterpieces of Drawing
58 RUBENS. Lady-m-waitmg m the Infama Isahella. Cmynn and red chalk, heightened with white, n^ s 13^. 59 RGBENS. Niclas, snn nf the arrisL Smdy f0r the denhle pnrtmit nf his snns, m Vienna. Cmynn. 7^s 8|. 60 RUBENS. Shepherdess.
Anthony Toney, 1963
9
Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Race, Gender, and Sexual ...
Heightened Perceptual Wisdom Because of their experiences with racism, sexism, and heterosexism, many marginalized groups have developed a heightened perceptual wisdom (Sue, 2003) that allows them to more accurately discern the ...
Derald Wing Sue, 2010
10
Constitutional Interpretation: Illusion and Reality
Nothing less than a genuine factual basis for governmental action would seem to be acceptable under heightened scrutiny." Nevertheless, this principle is one that the Court has been willing to ignore when to do so suits its purposes.
Jeffrey M. Shaman, 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HEIGHTENED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term heightened is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Middle East Allies See Heightened Peril in Newly Empowered Tehran
WASHINGTON — Even in the final months of talks to peacefully resolve the conflict over Iran's nuclear program, events across the Middle East ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
2
French Celebrate Bastille Day Amid Heightened Security
Another, Katy-Pauli Giraud, 58, led a group of spectators from Calais to the festivities, and called it "great'' that there was heightened protection ... «Voice of America, Jul 15»
3
Tennessee's expectations heightened with Josh Dobbs at quarterback
Now Dobbs is considered one of the biggest reasons for the heightened expectations surrounding the Vols as they approach the 2015 season. «USA TODAY, Jul 15»
4
Campus security heightened after assault allegations
In light of recent sexual assault allegations that occurred on Kennesaw State University grounds, the KSU Department of Public Safety ... «KSU | The Sentinel Newspaper, Jul 15»
5
Namibian police bans staff leave amid heightened fears over land …
The Namibian Police's top brass has banned all the police officers from taking leave as the law enforcement squaring up for the anticipated ... «StarAfrica.com, Jul 15»
6
West Antarctic Ice Sheet Experiencing Heightened Geothermal …
Researchers concluded that there is a rapid geothermal heat influx affecting the bottom of the West Antarctic. However, this heat flow is not the ... «Lid Time - Weird News, Entertainment, News Headlines, Jul 15»
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Public Release: 13-Jul-2015 Funeral directors may be at heightened
Funeral directors, who prepare bodies for burial, may be at heightened risk of the neurodegenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, ... «EurekAlert, Jul 15»
8
OSCE monitors observe heightened security measures in …
"On its way to Mukacheve, the SMM observed heightened security measures, including several police checkpoints. At one such checkpoint, ... «Interfax, Jul 15»
9
FCA Does Not Address Trial Judge's Finding That There Is No …
In short, he looked at whether a "heightened disclosure requirement" for sound prediction cases was mandated by the Patent Act, and at the ... «Mondaq News Alerts, Jul 15»
10
Heightened imagination for smell may drive food cravings
Close your eyes and imagine the smell of baking bread, of a pungent curry dish, of popcorn at the movies or a bouquet of freshly cut tea roses. «Detroit Free Press, Jul 15»

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