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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: highflying (0.00983 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to highflying.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: highflying
highflying
adj 1: moving upward or along at a considerable height;
“some
highflying fighter pilot fired a cannon shell into it”
[syn:
highflying(a)]
2: extravagant or ambitious or extreme in aims or opinions;
“they did not understand what had happend at the once
highflying company” [syn:
highflying(a)]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Highflying
Highflying
\High"fly`ing\, a.
1. Extravagant in opinions or ambition.
“Highflying,
arbitrary kings.” --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
2. Flying at a high altitude; -- of airplanes.
[PJC]
3. Having an excessively high cost or perceived value;
temporarily very successful; -- of objects with respect to
a market and people in their occupations; as, highflying
internet stocks; highflying executives moving between
companies.
[PJC]
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