lofty

lofty
    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}]
    2: of imposing height; especially standing out above others; "an
       eminent peak"; "lofty mountains"; "the soaring spires of the
       cathedral"; "towering icebergs" [syn: {eminent}, {lofty},
       {soaring}, {towering}]
    3: having or displaying great dignity or nobility; "a gallant
       pageant"; "lofty ships"; "majestic cities"; "proud alpine
       peaks" [syn: {gallant}, {lofty}, {majestic}, {proud}]
    

Lofty \Loft"y\, a. [Compar. {Loftier}; superl. {Loftiest}.]
   [From {Loft}.]
   1. Lifted high up; having great height; towering; high.
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            See lofty Lebanon his head advance.   --Pope.
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   2. Fig.: Elevated in character, rank, dignity, spirit,
      bearing, language, etc.; exalted; noble; stately;
      characterized by pride; haughty.
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            The high and lofty One, that inhabiteth eternity.
                                                  --Is. lvii.
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            Lofty and sour to them that loved him not. --Shak.
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            Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.
                                                  --Milton.

   Syn: Tall; high; exalted; dignified; stately; majestic;
        sublime; proud; haughty. See {Tall}.
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248 Moby Thesaurus words for "lofty":
      Gongoresque, Johnsonian, Olympian, aerial, affected, aggrandized,
      airy, altitudinous, ambitious, analytic, analytical, apotheosized,
      aristocratic, arrogant, ascending, aspiring, august, awesome,
      beatified, bedizened, benevolent, big, big-sounding, bighearted,
      blue-blooded, brand, candid, canonized, cavalier, celebrated,
      chivalrous, classy, clear, cogent, colossal, compelling,
      condescending, consequent, considerate, contemptuous, contumelious,
      convincing, convoluted, declamatory, deified, detached, dignified,
      discriminating, disdainful, disinterested, dispassionate,
      distinguished, dominating, domineering, elevated, eloquent,
      eminent, ennobled, enshrined, enthroned, erect, ethereal,
      euphuistic, exalted, excellent, famous, fancy, flamboyant, flaming,
      flashy, flaunting, flossy, fulsome, garish, gaudy, generous,
      glorified, glorious, godlike, grand, grandiloquent, grandiose,
      grandisonant, grave, great, great of heart, greathearted, handsome,
      haughty, held in awe, heroic, high, high and mighty,
      high-and-mighty, high-faluting, high-flowing, high-flown,
      high-flying, high-headed, high-minded, high-nosed, high-pitched,
      high-reaching, high-set, high-sounding, high-toned, high-up,
      highfalutin, highfaluting, hoity-toity, honorable, honored,
      idealistic, illustrious, immortal, immortalized, impartial,
      imperial, impersonal, imposing, inkhorn, insolent, inspiring,
      intelligent, knightly, labyrinthine, largehearted, lauded, leading,
      lexiphanic, liberal, lifted, logical, logo, logotype, lucid, lurid,
      magisterial, magnanimous, magnificent, magnified, magniloquent,
      majestic, meretricious, mighty, monumental, mounting, moving,
      neutral, noble, noble-minded, notable, on stilts, openhanded,
      orotund, ostentatious, outtopping, overbearing, overdone,
      overelaborate, overinvolved, overlooking, overtopping, overweening,
      overwrought, patronizing, pedantic, perspicuous, pompous,
      pretentious, princely, prominent, proud, purse-proud, raised,
      rampant, ratiocinative, rational, reasonable, regal, renowned,
      respected, rhetorical, sainted, sanctified, scornful, selfless,
      sensational, sensationalistic, sensible, sententious, serious,
      showy, shrined, skyscraping, snobbish, snooty, snotty, soaring,
      solemn, sonorous, sound, spiring, stately, steep, stilted,
      stuck-up, sublime, subtle, superb, supercilious, supereminent,
      superior, superlative, supernal, tall, telling, thoroughbred,
      throned, tony, topless, toplofty, topping, tortuous, towering,
      towery, trademark, unbiased, uninfluenced, unselfish, unswayed,
      upcast, upflung, uplifted, uppish, uppity, upraised, upreared,
      upright, upstage, upthrown, utopian, vainglorious, valid, vaunting,
      venerable, visionary, weighty