highnesses [hahy-nis]
Main Entry:
highness [hahy-nis]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: quality of being high
Synonyms: height, length, loftiness, tallness
Main Entry: eminence
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: high ground
Synonyms: altitude, elevation, height, highland, highness, hill, hillock, knoll, loftiness, peak, project, prominence, promontory, raise, ridge, rise, summit, upland
Antonyms: flat, low ground
Main Entry: height
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: altitude, top part
Synonyms: acme, apex, apogee, brow, ceiling, crest, crown, cusp, elevation, extent, highness, hill, loftiness, mountain, peak, pinnacle, pitch, prominence, rise, solstice, stature, summit, tallness, tip, tiptop, vertex, zenith
Antonyms: bottom, depth, lowness
Main Entry: size
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: extent or bulk of some dimension
Synonyms: admeasurement, amount, amplitude, area, bigness, body, breadth, caliber, capaciousness, capacity, content, diameter, dimensions, enormity, extension, extent, greatness, height, highness, hugeness, immensity, intensity, largeness, length, magnitude, mass, measurement, proportion, proportions, range, scope, spread, stature, stretch, substance, substantiality, tonnage, vastness, volume, voluminosity, width
Main Entry: majesty/Majesty
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: a form of address
Synonyms: Eminence, Emperor, Highness, King, Lord, Prince, Queen, Royal Highness, Sire
Main Entry: sizableness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: size
Synonyms: admeasurement, amount, amplitude, area, bigness, body, breadth, caliber, capaciousness, capacity, content, diameter, dimensions, enormity, extension, extent, greatness, height, highness, hugeness, immensity, intensity, largeness, length, magnitude, mass, measurement, proportion, proportions, range, scope, spread, stature, stretch, substance, substantiality, tonnage, vastness, volume, voluminosity, width
Related Words
Main Entry: height
Part of Speech: noun
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Adjectives:
heaven, aerial, alpine, altitudinarian, altitudinous, altivolant, attolent, beetling, bird's, cloud, elevated, eminent, exalted, gigantic, hanging, highest, hilly, incumbent, lanky, lofty, moorland, mountainous, overhanging, overlying, patagonian, prominent, rampant, soaring, stilted, sub, superincumbent, superior, supernatant, tall, tall as a Maypole, tall as a poplar, tall as a steeple, terraced, towering, upland, upper
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Size.
Category: 1. GENERAL DIMENSIONS
Synonyms:
-nouns
size, magnitude, dimension, bulk, volume; largeness; greatness (of quantity); expanse (space); amplitude, mass; proportions., capacity, tonnage, tunnage; cordage; caliber, scantling., turgidity (expansion); corpulence, obesity; plumpness; embonpoint, corporation, flesh and blood, lustihood., hugeness; enormity, immensity, monstrosity., giant, Brobdingnagian, Antaeus, Goliath, Gog and Magog, Gargantua, monster, mammoth, Cyclops; cachalot, whale, porpoise, behemoth, leviathan, elephant, hippopotamus; colossus; tun, cord, lump, bulk, block, loaf, mass, swad, clod, nugget, bushel, thumper, whooper, spanker, strapper; "Triton among the minnows" [Coriolanus]., mountain, mound; heap (assemblage)., largest portion; full size, life size.
-verbs
-adjectives
large, big; great (in quantity); considerable, bulky, voluminous, ample, massive, massy; capacious, comprehensive; spacious; mighty, towering, fine, magnificent., corpulent, stout, fat, plump, squab, full, lusty, strapping, bouncing; portly, burly, well-fed, full-grown; corn fed, gram fed; stalwart, brawny, fleshy; goodly; in good case, in good condition; in condition; chopping, jolly; chub faced, chubby faced., lubberly, hulky, unwieldly, lumpish, gaunt, spanking, whacking, whopping, thumping, thundering, hulking; overgrown; puffy (swollen)., huge, immense, enormous, mighty; vast, vasty; amplitudinous, stupendous; monster, monstrous, jumbo, mammoth, gigantean; prodigious, colossal, Cyclopean, Brobdingnagian, Gargantuan; infinite., large as life; plump as a dumpling, plump as a partridge; fat as a pig, fat as a quail, fat as butter, fat as brawn, fat as bacon.
Antonyms: littleness
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Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Height.
Category: 2. LINEAR DIMENSIONS
Synonyms:
-nouns
height, altitude, elevation; eminence, pitch; loftiness; sublimity., tallness; stature, procerity; prominence., colussus (size); giant, grenadier, giraffe, camelopard., mount, mountain; hill alto, butte [U.S.], monticle, fell, knap; cape; headland, foreland; promontory; ridge, hog's back, dune; rising ground, vantage ground; down; moor, moorland; Alp; uplands, highlands; heights (summit), [more]; knob, loma, pena [U.S.], picacho, tump; knoll, hummock, hillock, barrow, mound, mole; steeps, bluff, cliff, craig, tor, peak, pike, clough; escarpment, edge, ledge, brae; dizzy height, dizzying height., tower, pillar, column, obelisk, monument, steeple, spire, minaret, campanile, turret, dome, cupola., pole, pikstaff, maypole, flagstaff; top mast, topgallant mast., ceiling (covering)., high water; high tide, flood tide, spring tide., altimetry (angel); batophobia.
-verbs
be high; tower, soar, command; hover; cap, culminate; overhang, hang over, impend, beetle, bestride, ride, mount; perch, surmount; cover; overtop (be superior); stand on tiptoe., become high; grow higher, grow taller; upgrow; rise (ascend)., render high; heighten (elevate).
-adjectives
high, elevated, eminent, exalted, lofty, tall; gigantic (big); Patagonian; towering, beetling, soaring, hanging [gardens]; elevated; upper; highest (topmost); high reaching, insessorial, perching., upland, moorland; hilly, knobby [U.S.]; mountainous, alpine, subalpine, heaven kissing; cloudtopt, cloudcapt, cloudtouching; aerial., overhanging ; incumbent, overlying, superincumbent, supernatant, superimposed; prominent., tall as a maypole, tall as a poplar, tall as a steeple; lanky (thin).
-adverbs
on high, high up, aloft, up, above, aloof, overhead; airwind; upstairs, abovestairs; in the clouds; on tiptoe, on stilts, on the shoulders of; over head and ears; breast high., over, upwards; from top to bottom (completely).
-phrases
e meglio cader dalle finistre che dal tetto ["It is better to fall from the window than from the roof" (Italian)].
Antonyms: lowness
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