Meaning of high-minded | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Given to idealism.
2. Refined, cultured, particularly civilized.
3. Proud or arrogant.
4. Magnanimous.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“After the pause for much more self-deprecating laughter and with everyone listening, Salmond rounded off his story on a high-minded note. The hospital near that village is also powered by the same hydro project, he told them.”

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