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English
Adjective
high-minded (comparative more high-minded, superlative most high-minded)
- Given to idealism.
1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Author and the Actress”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. , volume III, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC, 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.
- Proud or arrogant.
- Magnanimous.
Derived terms
Translations
refined, cultured, particularly civilized