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Definition of lofty in English: loftyadjectiveloftier, loftiest ˈlɒftiˈlɔfti 1Of imposing height. the elegant square was shaded by lofty palms Example sentencesExamples - From his lofty perch atop the tallest pine at the highest point of Drangle pass, Forlon surveyed the peaceful terrain with satisfaction.
- The great hall at Union Station is lofty and magnificent - simply walking through it lifts the spirits.
- The Berkeley Court Hotel's opulent ballroom with its lofty ceiling, tall mirrors and huge chandeliers offers the perfect backdrop for a glamorous night.
- The autumn sky is so lofty that I feel like roaming around the heavens.
- She put a hand on her hip, looking down at me from her lofty height.
- ‘It's creepy,’ whispered Taffle, looking upwards to the halls' lofty heights.
- There are magnificent views of the whole island from this lofty perch.
- The 12 girls took to the lofty heights of Lugnaquilla to participate in a sponsored walk in aid of the Special Olympics.
- I believe that this is because their view of society is as indistinct as the view of the street below from the lofty heights of a high-rise building.
- Yet the ballroom's lofty wood-panelled ceiling and tall seaward windows, along with an adjoining dining hall and arcaded veranda, do evoke another more gracious age.
- From the lofty heights of Neiphin Mountain, you can view the landscape from Keenagh all the way to Easkey.
- Ah, to be with those who first gazed on those lofty heights - that was golden mountaineering.
- Our lights barely reached the top of this dramatically sculpted abyss, and we sat in awe for a good ten minutes just peering up into its lofty heights.
- The island boasted a cluster of lofty mountains, the tallest of which the locals named Ice Peak.
- Daredevil can't shoot industrial strength spider webs or soar between lofty towers.
- Barely anyone valued the river, preferring instead to live at lofty heights that kissed the clouds, so I had been able to rent a small apartment overlooking the Effenlie.
- It is a city rather than a town, that lofty, majestic cathedral ensuring its status.
- You still enter a lofty domed hall by a small door set in an imposing gate.
- Finally, Ms Earle says human rights lawyers must come down from their lofty perches.
- Giant yellow-poplars are remarkable for their lofty heights and barely tapering columnar shapes.
Synonyms tall, high, giant, towering, soaring, sky-high, sky-scraping imposing, magnificent, majestic - 1.1 Of a noble or elevated nature.
an extraordinary mixture of harsh reality and lofty ideals Example sentencesExamples - The cottage, rebuilt in 1997 in line with the description in the poems, reminds visitors of Du's simple life and lofty ideals.
- Do they have the same lofty goals and aspirations as able-bodied individuals?
- Our religion is too lofty, noble and humane to have such thugs and killers.
- On the one hand it proclaims lofty ideals, and on the other it prevents disclosure.
- The GGA failed to live up to its lofty and noble ideals due largely to the self-serving nature of some of its less progressive members.
- Just as every drop makes an ocean, one young man, who feels that it is his duty to strive for world peace, is spreading the lofty ideals of peace and harmony among the common folk.
- Generation after generation of Americans has understood the lofty ideals that underlie our great Republic.
- His actions have distressed the great many journalists who go to pains every day to uphold the lofty ideals of their chosen craft.
- To accomplish that lofty goal, Fulham must finish among the top five clubs in the much more competitive league.
- The lofty ideal found many spontaneous takers.
- Some will smirk at such lofty aspirations, calling them silly, if not impossible.
- A noble and lofty goal, the setup is an interesting one but the actual action is brutally difficult.
- It's a lofty ideal and one which will probably remain in the ivory tower of newspaper journalism, but I would add one caveat.
- I hoped that lofty ambition alone might sneak me through to the finals.
- Over the years he admits he has at times strayed from that lofty ideal.
- Gibson's film seems to have less lofty ambitions.
- It is a world where nobody aspires to anything lofty, noble, or daring, and where nobody must love another when such love is fragile, mysterious, and hard.
- However, considerable friction arose from the beginning between lofty republican ideals and the lure of distant lands.
- Hopefully, my fortune will assist him in achieving that lofty goal.
Synonyms noble, exalted, high, high-minded, grand, fine, sublime, elevated, worthy - 1.2 Haughty and aloof.
lofty intellectual disdain Example sentencesExamples - On no account is he an aloof, lofty person, but instead he eats and drinks with the Minjung, sometimes asking favours from them or vice versa, granting their requests.
- What is occurring in this affair is a soft but highly effective form of modern ‘censorship’, that by lofty disdain and complete disregard.
- A passionate nativism marched in lock step with a sense of a lofty imperial mission.
- In particular, we should aim to follow their example and not let anything stand in the way of lofty intellectual pursuit.
- Indeed, the whole of the French governing elite maintained a lofty disdain for the episode.
- In the years after the Second World War, American history, which had been viewed with lofty condescension in most British universities, became an increasingly popular subject.
- Will the Irish media engage, or will it maintain its lofty disdain for the president and his people?
- Unlike some of his predecessors, he never seems lofty or arrogant.
- Given that organisation's lofty disdain for those of us working in the popular press, it is also very tempting to do so.
- This is her favourite pastime as it escalates her already lofty notions of self-importance.
- There is little indication that their parents begrudged them their cultivated and hunting ways provided they evinced lofty intellectual interests.
- What you need to cultivate here, as a composer, is an air of lofty disdain for us poor sweat-shop craftspeople down here.
- As Kant remarked, this is said in a lofty, disdainful tone, full of the presumption of wanting to reform reason by experience.
- However, the ITA took a rather lofty and somewhat patronizing view of the abilities of independent producers.
- It has inspired essays by France's lofty intellectuals.
- The conversational performance bar was high - not to any ridiculously lofty intellectual setting, but higher than I am generally used to in the general course of things.
- Tabloid journalism is a tricky subject: it tends to invite lofty condescension.
- Unlike their British and American counterparts, French politicians have generally exhibited a lofty disdain for the concept of crafting an image.
Synonyms haughty, proud, aloof, arrogant, disdainful, supercilious, condescending, patronizing, scornful, contemptuous, self-important, conceited, snobbish lordly, grandiose, imperious, pompous, magisterial, overweening, overbearing informal high and mighty, stuck-up, snooty, snotty, toffee-nosed, uppity, uppish, hoity-toity literary vainglorious archaic contumelious
2(of wool and other textiles) thick and resilient. Example sentencesExamples - Because fleece is such a lofty, stretchy fabric, use a 3 mm or 3.5 mm stitch length.
Derivatives adverb ˈlɒftɪli Begging ought to be banned, they proclaimed loftily. Example sentencesExamples - In the previous national elections it poured scorn on the idea of coalitions and alignments, going loftily alone, and came home with the worst electoral performance in its history.
- Thirty students, including 13 girls, took part in the three-hour session, conducted in the serene atmosphere of the Gandhi Museum, which stands loftily for peace and non-violence.
- These loftily general values, in other words, hide some deep conflicts - conflicts that new technologies may not help us to overcome.
- It commissions exit polls, carries them, goads some politician into deriding them and then spends half an hour discussing loftily why exit polls serve a purpose.
noun ˈlɒftɪnəsˈlɔftinəs Such childhood enthusiasm ensured that the novelist later on would have to be punished with our indulgent contempt, before we eventually realized that our loftiness was more contemptible than his confusions. Example sentencesExamples - Always a promising singer, in the past he has seemed to hide something of his personality behind a certain emotional loftiness.
- The problem here is that while the joke is very clever and to be lauded for its loftiness in ambition, it doesn't make you laugh.
- Anyone who believes that the loftiness of art is above politics, war and religious differences doesn't understand that artists live in the real world and don't hide behind their creativity.
- The loftiness, the breeze, the view, the sense of privileged isolation - I spent many hours up there, with friends or alone.
Origin Middle English: from loft, influenced by aloft. Definition of lofty in US English: loftyadjectiveˈlôftēˈlɔfti 1Of imposing height. the elegant square was shaded by lofty palms Example sentencesExamples - There are magnificent views of the whole island from this lofty perch.
- The great hall at Union Station is lofty and magnificent - simply walking through it lifts the spirits.
- Ah, to be with those who first gazed on those lofty heights - that was golden mountaineering.
- You still enter a lofty domed hall by a small door set in an imposing gate.
- Yet the ballroom's lofty wood-panelled ceiling and tall seaward windows, along with an adjoining dining hall and arcaded veranda, do evoke another more gracious age.
- The autumn sky is so lofty that I feel like roaming around the heavens.
- From his lofty perch atop the tallest pine at the highest point of Drangle pass, Forlon surveyed the peaceful terrain with satisfaction.
- Barely anyone valued the river, preferring instead to live at lofty heights that kissed the clouds, so I had been able to rent a small apartment overlooking the Effenlie.
- I believe that this is because their view of society is as indistinct as the view of the street below from the lofty heights of a high-rise building.
- It is a city rather than a town, that lofty, majestic cathedral ensuring its status.
- Giant yellow-poplars are remarkable for their lofty heights and barely tapering columnar shapes.
- The 12 girls took to the lofty heights of Lugnaquilla to participate in a sponsored walk in aid of the Special Olympics.
- She put a hand on her hip, looking down at me from her lofty height.
- The island boasted a cluster of lofty mountains, the tallest of which the locals named Ice Peak.
- The Berkeley Court Hotel's opulent ballroom with its lofty ceiling, tall mirrors and huge chandeliers offers the perfect backdrop for a glamorous night.
- From the lofty heights of Neiphin Mountain, you can view the landscape from Keenagh all the way to Easkey.
- ‘It's creepy,’ whispered Taffle, looking upwards to the halls' lofty heights.
- Our lights barely reached the top of this dramatically sculpted abyss, and we sat in awe for a good ten minutes just peering up into its lofty heights.
- Daredevil can't shoot industrial strength spider webs or soar between lofty towers.
- Finally, Ms Earle says human rights lawyers must come down from their lofty perches.
Synonyms tall, high, giant, towering, soaring, sky-high, sky-scraping - 1.1 Of a noble or exalted nature.
an extraordinary mixture of harsh reality and lofty ideals Example sentencesExamples - His actions have distressed the great many journalists who go to pains every day to uphold the lofty ideals of their chosen craft.
- It is a world where nobody aspires to anything lofty, noble, or daring, and where nobody must love another when such love is fragile, mysterious, and hard.
- To accomplish that lofty goal, Fulham must finish among the top five clubs in the much more competitive league.
- On the one hand it proclaims lofty ideals, and on the other it prevents disclosure.
- Gibson's film seems to have less lofty ambitions.
- It's a lofty ideal and one which will probably remain in the ivory tower of newspaper journalism, but I would add one caveat.
- The lofty ideal found many spontaneous takers.
- The cottage, rebuilt in 1997 in line with the description in the poems, reminds visitors of Du's simple life and lofty ideals.
- I hoped that lofty ambition alone might sneak me through to the finals.
- However, considerable friction arose from the beginning between lofty republican ideals and the lure of distant lands.
- Just as every drop makes an ocean, one young man, who feels that it is his duty to strive for world peace, is spreading the lofty ideals of peace and harmony among the common folk.
- A noble and lofty goal, the setup is an interesting one but the actual action is brutally difficult.
- Over the years he admits he has at times strayed from that lofty ideal.
- Do they have the same lofty goals and aspirations as able-bodied individuals?
- Hopefully, my fortune will assist him in achieving that lofty goal.
- Some will smirk at such lofty aspirations, calling them silly, if not impossible.
- Generation after generation of Americans has understood the lofty ideals that underlie our great Republic.
- The GGA failed to live up to its lofty and noble ideals due largely to the self-serving nature of some of its less progressive members.
- Our religion is too lofty, noble and humane to have such thugs and killers.
Synonyms noble, exalted, high, high-minded, grand, fine, sublime, elevated, worthy - 1.2 Proud, aloof, or self-important.
lofty intellectual disdain Example sentencesExamples - The conversational performance bar was high - not to any ridiculously lofty intellectual setting, but higher than I am generally used to in the general course of things.
- As Kant remarked, this is said in a lofty, disdainful tone, full of the presumption of wanting to reform reason by experience.
- On no account is he an aloof, lofty person, but instead he eats and drinks with the Minjung, sometimes asking favours from them or vice versa, granting their requests.
- A passionate nativism marched in lock step with a sense of a lofty imperial mission.
- Indeed, the whole of the French governing elite maintained a lofty disdain for the episode.
- Will the Irish media engage, or will it maintain its lofty disdain for the president and his people?
- Unlike some of his predecessors, he never seems lofty or arrogant.
- What you need to cultivate here, as a composer, is an air of lofty disdain for us poor sweat-shop craftspeople down here.
- Tabloid journalism is a tricky subject: it tends to invite lofty condescension.
- However, the ITA took a rather lofty and somewhat patronizing view of the abilities of independent producers.
- In particular, we should aim to follow their example and not let anything stand in the way of lofty intellectual pursuit.
- This is her favourite pastime as it escalates her already lofty notions of self-importance.
- What is occurring in this affair is a soft but highly effective form of modern ‘censorship’, that by lofty disdain and complete disregard.
- Unlike their British and American counterparts, French politicians have generally exhibited a lofty disdain for the concept of crafting an image.
- Given that organisation's lofty disdain for those of us working in the popular press, it is also very tempting to do so.
- In the years after the Second World War, American history, which had been viewed with lofty condescension in most British universities, became an increasingly popular subject.
- There is little indication that their parents begrudged them their cultivated and hunting ways provided they evinced lofty intellectual interests.
- It has inspired essays by France's lofty intellectuals.
Synonyms haughty, proud, aloof, arrogant, disdainful, supercilious, condescending, patronizing, scornful, contemptuous, self-important, conceited, snobbish
2(of wool and other textiles) thick and resilient. Example sentencesExamples - Because fleece is such a lofty, stretchy fabric, use a 3 mm or 3.5 mm stitch length.
Origin Middle English: from loft, influenced by aloft. |