Lofty \Loft"y\, a. [Compar. Loftier; superl. Loftiest.]
[From Loft.]
1. Lifted high up; having great height; towering; high.
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See lofty Lebanon his head advance. --Pope.
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2. Fig.: Elevated in character, rank, dignity, spirit,
bearing, language, etc.; exalted; noble; stately;
characterized by pride; haughty.
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The high and lofty One, that inhabiteth eternity.
--Is. lvii.
15.
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Lofty and sour to them that loved him not. --Shak.
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Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.
--Milton.
Syn: Tall; high; exalted; dignified; stately; majestic;
sublime; proud; haughty. See Tall.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
lofty
adj 1: of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or
style; "an exalted ideal"; "argue in terms of
high-flown ideals"- Oliver Franks; "a noble and lofty
concept" [syn: exalted, high-flown, high-minded,
rarefied, rarified, idealistic, noble-minded]
2: of imposing height; especially standing out above others;
"an eminent peak"; "lofty mountains"; "the soaring spires
of the cathedral"; "towering iceburgs" [syn: eminent, soaring,
towering]
3: having or displaying great dignity or nobility; "a gallant
pageant"; "lofty ships"; "majestic cities"; "proud alpine
peaks" [syn: gallant, majestic, proud]
[also: loftiest, loftier]
WordNet (r) 2.0
248 Moby Thesaurus words for "lofty":
Gongoresque, Johnsonian, Olympian, aerial, affected, aggrandized,
airy, altitudinous, ambitious, analytic, analytical, apotheosized,
aristocratic, arrogant, ascending, aspiring, august, awesome,
beatified, bedizened, benevolent, big, big-sounding, bighearted,
blue-blooded, brand, candid, canonized, cavalier, celebrated,
chivalrous, classy, clear, cogent, colossal, compelling,
condescending, consequent, considerate, contemptuous, contumelious,
convincing, convoluted, declamatory, deified, detached, dignified,
discriminating, disdainful, disinterested, dispassionate,
distinguished, dominating, domineering, elevated, eloquent,
eminent, ennobled, enshrined, enthroned, erect, ethereal,
euphuistic, exalted, excellent, famous, fancy, flamboyant, flaming,
flashy, flaunting, flossy, fulsome, garish, gaudy, generous,
glorified, glorious, godlike, grand, grandiloquent, grandiose,
grandisonant, grave, great, great of heart, greathearted, handsome,
haughty, held in awe, heroic, high, high and mighty,
high-and-mighty, high-faluting, high-flowing, high-flown,
high-flying, high-headed, high-minded, high-nosed, high-pitched,
high-reaching, high-set, high-sounding, high-toned, high-up,
highfalutin, highfaluting, hoity-toity, honorable, honored,
idealistic, illustrious, immortal, immortalized, impartial,
imperial, impersonal, imposing, inkhorn, insolent, inspiring,
intelligent, knightly, labyrinthine, largehearted, lauded, leading,
lexiphanic, liberal, lifted, logical, logo, logotype, lucid, lurid,
magisterial, magnanimous, magnificent, magnified, magniloquent,
majestic, meretricious, mighty, monumental, mounting, moving,
neutral, noble, noble-minded, notable, on stilts, openhanded,
orotund, ostentatious, outtopping, overbearing, overdone,
overelaborate, overinvolved, overlooking, overtopping, overweening,
overwrought, patronizing, pedantic, perspicuous, pompous,
pretentious, princely, prominent, proud, purse-proud, raised,
rampant, ratiocinative, rational, reasonable, regal, renowned,
respected, rhetorical, sainted, sanctified, scornful, selfless,
sensational, sensationalistic, sensible, sententious, serious,
showy, shrined, skyscraping, snobbish, snooty, snotty, soaring,
solemn, sonorous, sound, spiring, stately, steep, stilted,
stuck-up, sublime, subtle, superb, supercilious, supereminent,
superior, superlative, supernal, tall, telling, thoroughbred,
throned, tony, topless, toplofty, topping, tortuous, towering,
towery, trademark, unbiased, uninfluenced, unselfish, unswayed,
upcast, upflung, uplifted, uppish, uppity, upraised, upreared,
upright, upstage, upthrown, utopian, vainglorious, valid, vaunting,
venerable, visionary, weighty
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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