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I feel that there's a lot of would-be guardians of the culture who think that high-minded literary purpose and the life that gets chronicled in the gossip columns, that these two things are incompatible.
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Meaning of "high-minded" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HIGH-MINDED

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HIGH-MINDED

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

WHAT DOES HIGH-MINDED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of high-minded in the English dictionary

The definition of high-minded in the dictionary is having or characterized by high moral principles. Other definition of high-minded is arrogant; haughty.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HIGH-MINDED

high-impact
high-income
high-interest
high-jump
high-key
high-keyed
high-level
high-level language
high-level waste
high-maintenance
high-mindedly
high-mindedness
high-muck-a-muck
high-necked
high-octane
high-pass filter
high-performance
high-pitched
high-powered
high-pressure

WORDS THAT END LIKE HIGH-MINDED

absent-minded
bloody-minded
dirty-minded
double-minded
evil-minded
extended
liberal-minded
like-minded
long-winded
minded
narrow-minded
open-minded
right-minded
simple-minded
single-minded
small-minded
sober-minded
strong-minded
tough-minded
weak-minded
winded

Synonyms and antonyms of high-minded in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «HIGH-MINDED»

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

Translation of «high-minded» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HIGH-MINDED

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

Translator English - Chinese

高尚
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

magnánima
570 millions of speakers

English

high-minded
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

महामना
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

عالية في التفكير
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

возвышенный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

altivos
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

উদারহৃদয়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

de caractère noble
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Berfikiran tinggi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

edelmütig
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

気高い
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

고상한
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Dhuwur-minded
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cao thượng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நல்ல சிந்தனையுடைய
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

उच्च मनाचा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

alicenap
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

magnanimo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

high- minded
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

піднесений
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

de mare minte
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

υψηλόφρονες
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

hoogmoedig
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

högsint
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

high- minded
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of high-minded

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HIGH-MINDED»

The term «high-minded» is normally little used and occupies the 117.575 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HIGH-MINDED» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about high-minded

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6 QUOTES WITH «HIGH-MINDED»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word high-minded.
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Cathy Marie Buchanan
Edgar Degas's famous sculpture, 'Little Dancer Aged Fourteen,' served as my muse for 'The Painted Girls.' I came upon a television documentary on the work, and as someone who held the sculpture in high esteem and who largely considered ballet to be the high-minded pursuit of privileged young girls, I was struck by what I would learn.
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Jennifer Grey
I had intelligent, high-minded, liberal parents who wanted to make sure my values were just like theirs.
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Hugh Jackman
The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it.
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Jay McInerney
I feel that there's a lot of would-be guardians of the culture who think that high-minded literary purpose and the life that gets chronicled in the gossip columns, that these two things are incompatible.
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Charles Sumner
I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.
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Wendell Willkie
A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HIGH-MINDED»

Discover the use of high-minded in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to high-minded and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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High-minded and low-down: music in the lives of Americans, ...
Examines the musical culture of antebellum Americans, focusing on how music enriched their everyday lives and helped to establish a national identity for a citizenry struggling to define their government and the nature of their society.
Nicholas E. Tawa, 2000
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The Grateful Dead and Philosophy: Getting High Minded about ...
This book is another one of those late-night Grateful Dead inspired dorm room conversations with friends . . . only this time it’s your professors sitting cross-legged on the floor asking if anyone else wants to order a pizza.
Steve Gimbel, 2013
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Aristotle's Theory of Moral Insight
But then the question arises of why it is that Aristotle construes the high-minded man as a person who places so little value on natural goods. Why, in other words , does Aristotle construe the high-minded man as a moral saint, as a person for ...
Troels Engberg-Pedersen, 1983
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Emotive Language in Argumentation
For instance, he provided the example of Paris, who was called 'high-minded' because (Rhetoric, 1401b 20–22): Case 3 [...] in the Alexander [the claim] that [ Paris] was “high-minded”; for looking down on the society of the multitude he passed ...
Fabrizio Macagno, Douglas Walton, 2014
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The Christian's dictionary; or, Sure guide to divine ...
HIGH.MINDED, Such as think themselves in any respect or qualifications superior to o. thers. To be High•minded, is the character of a proud domineering wietch, who looks down with contempt on his fellow creatures, because he imagines that ...
John Fleetwood, 1775
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The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of ...
He, on the other hand, who holds himself worthy of less than his merits is little- minded, no matter whether the merits which he thus underrates be great, or moderate, or small. The merits, then, of the high-minded man are extreme, but in his ...
Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, 1912
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Aristotle's Biopsychosocial Model of Psychology and ...
According to Aristotle (1962), this virtue involves having a right attitude toward getting what one justly deserves, "A man is regarded as high- minded when he thinks he deserves great things and actually deserves them. . ." (p. 93). Aristotle is  ...
Daniel Elliot Lee, 2008
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Politics, Values, and the National Socialism
Stirner's 'individualist', who would no longer go on comparing himself with others on the basis of alien value-criteria, is certainly more high-minded than the Pharisee whose moral pride takes the typical form of high-mindedness. It seems to be ...
Aurel Kolnai, Graham McAleer, 2013
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Loveknots to Lariats
Some people might call him a high-minded dreamer. Each spring he packs up and leaves. His horses stand tied side by side in the trailer, Down the highway he's pullin' his dreams. He's up at the first crack of dawn in the morning, Feeding and ...
Ramona Cugnini, 2014
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Bible English, Chapters on Old and Disused Expressions in ...
High-minded — Heady. 207 Humour (II. 1), ' I speak it not gloriously or out of affectation.' A 'high-minded' person is, according to our present usage, one of lofty principle, above any petty feeling or mean action ; but in our translation the word ...
T. Lewis Davies, 1875

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HIGH-MINDED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term high-minded is used in the context of the following news items.
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Saskatchewan preem stands up for oil, gas industries - Edmonton Sun
Maybe then high-minded “green” politicians in central Canada will finally understand the real cost to them of their environmentalist policies. «Edmonton Sun, Jul 15»
2
The case against the case for earmarks - Vox
... contrarian to treat the failure of American politics as the unintended consequences of past efforts to improve things: High-minded reforms that ... «Vox, Jul 15»
3
Trumpism would be the perfect ideology for a third party - Vox
Before that they were the politics of No Labels and Unity '08, two brainchildren of graybeard politicians and semi-high-minded political ... «Vox, Jul 15»
4
Faraday Future, Tesla Competitor, Launching in 2017 - Hollywood …
... an innovator in electromagnetism - Faraday Future could arguably be dismissed as another high-minded concept with little practical future. «Hollywood Reporter, Jul 15»
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Why the Asian-American Lawsuit Against Harvard Is Doomed to Fail …
There is nothing high-minded about this campaign of invidious discrimination. It is "illegitimate racial prejudice or stereotype." The challenge ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
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British-Jewish Publisher Funds Rescue of 2,000 Christians in Syria …
It was very high-minded operation and we Jews should also be thankful and do something for the endangered Christians.” Yet some countries ... «Jspace News, Jul 15»
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Kaizena raises $900,000 in seed funding to bring “good change” to …
While the Kaizena's mission statement of “continuous improvement” may seem high-minded, the company's approach is firmly grounded in the ... «BetaKit, Jul 15»
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'Go Set a Watchman' is a novel we can love - Opinion - The Boston …
... lot of knee-jerk reactions to the racist rhetoric that comes out of Atticus, sharply contrasting with the high-minded monologues in “Mockingbird. «Boston Globe, Jul 15»
9
Naked people on Newcastle quayside ten years ago for …
That was the high-minded bit. Down on the ground the nudes were shivering and giggling, some bashfully and some a touch hysterically. «ChronicleLive, Jul 15»
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Ranking July's Free PlayStation Plus Games :: Games :: Galleries …
It's a high-minded Tempest, but kind of dull. ps-plus-july-2015 ps-plus-geometry-wars-3 5. Geometry Wars 3 (Vita): As you twirl your thumbs ... «Paste Magazine, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. High-Minded [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/high-minded>. May 2024 ».
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