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Highflying   Listen
adjective
Highflying  adj.  
1.
Extravagant in opinions or ambition. "Highflying, arbitrary kings."
2.
Flying at a high altitude; of airplanes.
3.
Having an excessively high cost or perceived value; temporarily very successful; of objects with respect to a market and people in their occupations; as, highflying internet stocks; highflying executives moving between companies.





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"Highflying" Quotes from Famous Books



... human power of contrivance in its degree. The beaver intellect, so long as it steadfastly refuses to be vulpine, and answers the tempter pointing out short routes to it with an honest "No, no," is truly respectable to me; and many a highflying speaker and singer whom I have known, has appeared to me much less of a developed man than certain of my mill-owning, agricultural, commercial, mechanical, or otherwise industrial friends, who have held their peace all their days and gone on in the silent state. If a man can keep ...
— Latter-Day Pamphlets • Thomas Carlyle


Words linked to "Highflying" :   ascending, unrestrained


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