Dictionary Definition
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"
[syn: exalted, high-flown,
high-minded,
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 iceburgs" [syn: eminent, soaring, towering]
3 having or displaying great dignity or nobility;
"a gallant pageant"; "lofty ships"; "majestic cities"; "proud
alpine peaks" [syn: gallant, majestic, proud] [also: loftiest, loftier]
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English
Etymology
, noble, from loft, upstairs room, sky.Adjective
Translations
high (1)
idealistic (2)
Extensive Definition
Lofty may refer to:
- Lofty ideal
- Mount Lofty (disambiguation)
- Lofty's Roach Souffle, a 1990 instrumental music album by Harry Connick Jr.
- Lofty Storm Records, a music record label
People
- Lofty, a fictional character on the 1986 animated television series My Little Pony
- Frank "Lofty" England, Jaguar Cars' motorsport manager, and later CEO
- George "Lofty" Holloway, a fictional character in the television series EastEnders
- Gunner "Lofty" Sugden, a fictional character on the 1970s British sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum
Loftie
See also
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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