high-minded

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English

Adjective

high-minded (comparative more high-minded, superlative most high-minded)

  1. 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.
  2. Refined, cultured, particularly civilized.
  3. Proud or arrogant.
  4. Magnanimous.

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