high-minded

high-minded
    adj 1: of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature
           or style; "an exalted ideal"; "argue in terms of high-
           flown ideals"- Oliver Franks; "a noble and lofty
           concept"; "a grand purpose" [syn: {exalted}, {elevated},
           {sublime}, {grand}, {high-flown}, {high-minded}, {lofty},
           {rarefied}, {rarified}, {idealistic}, {noble-minded}]
    

High-minded \High"-mind"ed\, a.
   1. Proud; arrogant. [Obs.]
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            Be not high-minded, but fear.         --Rom. xi. 20.
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   2. Having, or characterized by, honorable pride; of or
      pertaining to elevated principles and feelings;
      magnanimous; -- opposed to mean.
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            High-minded, manly recognition of those truths. --A.
                                                  Norton.
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84 Moby Thesaurus words for "high-minded":
      Christian, big, bighearted, blameless, chivalrous, clean,
      creditable, decent, elevated, erect, estimable, ethical, exalted,
      fair, full of integrity, generous, good, great, great of heart,
      greathearted, handsome, heroic, high, high-flown, high-headed,
      high-nosed, high-principled, high-toned, highfalutin, highfaluting,
      highly respectable, honest, honorable, idealistic, immaculate,
      inviolate, irreproachable, just, knightly, largehearted,
      law-abiding, law-loving, law-revering, liberal, lofty, magnanimous,
      manly, moral, noble, noble-minded, openhanded, princely,
      principled, pure, reputable, respectable, right, right-minded,
      righteous, spotless, stainless, sterling, sublime, true-dealing,
      true-devoted, true-disposing, true-souled, true-spirited,
      truehearted, unblemished, uncorrupt, uncorrupted, undefiled,
      unimpeachable, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untarnished,
      upright, uprighteous, upstanding, virtuous, worthy, yeomanly