单词 | exalted |
释义 | exalted (once / 491 pages) adj Use the adjective exalted to describe something (or someone) that is raised in rank, value, or power. Which group has the most exalted status at your high school depends on who you ask. If you ask music kids, they may say marching band. If you ask a football player... Exalted goes back to Latin exaltare, combining ex "up" and altus "high." You may not have an exalted position at school — maybe you're even one of the peons who isn't going to have a full-page spread dedicated to their achievements in the yearbook — but you'll always have an exalted role in your family, where your quiet humor and up-for-everything attitude brings your siblings together. WORD FAMILYexalted: exalteder, exaltedly+/exalt: exaltation, exalted, exalting, exalts/exaltation: exaltations/exalting: exaltingly USAGE EXAMPLESNow is the time to embrace that exalted status. Time(Dec 22, 2016) The intention was surely to enjoy nights on such an exalted stage more than this but instead the impression persists of accelerating poor form. The Guardian(Dec 07, 2016) At fairly routine intervals, fashion lifts fat people, prepubescent children, sexual outliers and now, with increasing frequency, old people to an exalted chic. New York Times(Nov 30, 2016) adj of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style an exalted ideal Syn elevated, grand, high-flown, high-minded, idealistic, lofty, noble-minded, rarefied, rarified, sublime noble having or showing or indicative of high or elevated character |
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