high-minded
See also: highminded
English
Adjective
high-minded (comparative more high-minded, superlative most high-minded)
- Given to idealism.
- 1837, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Ethel Churchill, volume 3, page 106:
- Walter was the ideal—generous, high-minded, clear in perception; but sensitive, even weak, in action; or, rather, too apt to imagine a world full of lofty aims and noble impulses, and then fancying that was the world in which he had to live.
- Refined, cultured, particularly civilized.
- 2014, Michael White, "Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe", The Guardian, 8 September 2014:
- After the pause for much more self-deprecating laughter and with everyone listening, Salmond rounded off his story on a high-minded note. The hospital near that village is also powered by the same hydro project, he told them.
- 2014, Michael White, "Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe", The Guardian, 8 September 2014:
- Proud or arrogant.
- Magnanimous.
Derived terms
Translations
given to idealism
refined, cultured, particularly civilized
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