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Meaning of high-minded | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

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

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.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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