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[ skahy-hahy ] / ˈskaɪˈhaɪ / SEE SYNONYMS FOR sky-high ON THESAURUS.COM
adverb, adjectivevery high: Costs have gone sky-high since the war. Origin of sky-highFirst recorded in 1810–20 Words nearby sky-highskydiving, Skye, Skye terrier, skyey, skyf, sky-high, skyhome, skyhook, skyjack, skyjacking, Skylab Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for sky-highAlong this sky-high route, nearly every 19th-century saloon or historic hotel has a ghost story to tell. The U.S. Road Trips You Should Really Take|Lonely Planet|April 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST Unless some kind of sky-high musical chairs ensues, anything more than a cursory pre-potty hello could become a little tricky. Wingman, an App for Hookups at 30,000 Feet, Wants To Be the Tinder of Airline Travel|Charlotte Lytton|February 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST The popular storage service is the latest young tech firm to coin a sky-high valuation. Is Dropbox Worth $8 Billion?|William O’Connor|November 19, 2013|DAILY BEAST But after the painful shocks of 2008, the world got used to sky-high oil prices and eventually absorbed the impact. The End of Iran’s Oil Shield|Christopher Dickey|November 12, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The sky-high value for Priceline is also part of a recent trend by companies chasing ever higher stock prices. Priceline Stock Breaks Through $1,000 Barrier|William O’Connor|September 19, 2013|DAILY BEAST Sky-High's heart fluttered, not at what he hoped to see, but at the thought of the presents that he hoped to make. Little Sky-High|Hezekiah Butterworth Even the summits of the peaks are visited by this sky-high dweller. Your National Parks|Enos A. Mills When Sky-High found that he was serving to amuse his mistress's household, he turned silent. Little Sky-High|Hezekiah Butterworth Like the pride-maddened men of Babel, they were building a sky-high thing of stone. The Sky Is Falling|Lester del Rey "We never use plain language to mandarins in China," said Sky-High. Little Sky-High|Hezekiah Butterworth
British Dictionary definitions for sky-high
adjective, adverbat or to an unprecedented or excessive levelprices rocketed sky-high adverbhigh into the air blow sky-high to destroy completely Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to sky-highskyward, aerial, airy, raised, soaring, tall, towering, high-rise, lifted, skyscraping, spiring, dizzying, excessive, exorbitant, extortionate, extreme, high, immoderate, inordinate, stiff |