"high-flying" meaning in English

See high-flying in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more high-flying [comparative], most high-flying [superlative]
Rhymes: -aɪɪŋ Etymology: From high + flying. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|high|flying}} high + flying Head templates: {{en-adj}} high-flying (comparative more high-flying, superlative most high-flying)
  1. Characteristic of a highflier; extravagant in conduct or opinion. Synonyms: highflying Translations (extravagant in conduct or opinion): korkealentoinen (Finnish), ambitny (Polish), zawrotny (Polish)

Alternative forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "high",
        "3": "flying"
      },
      "expansion": "high + flying",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From high + flying.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more high-flying",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most high-flying",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "high-flying (comparative more high-flying, superlative most high-flying)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Polish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2013 June 23, Katy Guest, “Polly Courtney interview: The voice of the recession generation”, in The Independent",
          "text": "As a bright young engineering graduate in the early 2000s she worked for a year as a \"high-flying\" analyst at Merrill Lynch, before she quit in disgust to write a novel based on the experience.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Characteristic of a highflier; extravagant in conduct or opinion."
      ],
      "id": "en-high-flying-en-adj-zbGA6EMK",
      "links": [
        [
          "highflier",
          "highflier"
        ],
        [
          "extravagant",
          "extravagant"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "highflying"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "extravagant in conduct or opinion",
          "word": "korkealentoinen"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "extravagant in conduct or opinion",
          "word": "ambitny"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "extravagant in conduct or opinion",
          "word": "zawrotny"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-aɪɪŋ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "high-flying"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "high",
        "3": "flying"
      },
      "expansion": "high + flying",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From high + flying.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more high-flying",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most high-flying",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "high-flying (comparative more high-flying, superlative most high-flying)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English compound terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Rhymes:English/aɪɪŋ",
        "Rhymes:English/aɪɪŋ/3 syllables",
        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with Polish translations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2013 June 23, Katy Guest, “Polly Courtney interview: The voice of the recession generation”, in The Independent",
          "text": "As a bright young engineering graduate in the early 2000s she worked for a year as a \"high-flying\" analyst at Merrill Lynch, before she quit in disgust to write a novel based on the experience.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Characteristic of a highflier; extravagant in conduct or opinion."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "highflier",
          "highflier"
        ],
        [
          "extravagant",
          "extravagant"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-aɪɪŋ"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "highflying"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "extravagant in conduct or opinion",
      "word": "korkealentoinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "extravagant in conduct or opinion",
      "word": "ambitny"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "extravagant in conduct or opinion",
      "word": "zawrotny"
    }
  ],
  "word": "high-flying"
}

Download raw JSONL data for high-flying meaning in English (1.7kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-09-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-08-20 using wiktextract (8e41825 and f99c758). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.