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vital
English
Etymology
From Middle English vital, from Old French vital, from Latin v?t?lis (“of life, life-giving”), from v?ta (“life”), from v?v? (“I live”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: v?'t?l, IPA(key): /?va?t?l/
- (US) IPA(key): /?va?t??l/
- Rhymes: -a?t?l
Adjective
vital (comparative more vital, superlative most vital)
- Relating to, or characteristic of life.
- Synonym: lifely
- Necessary to the continuation of life; being the seat of life; being that on which life depends.
- Invigorating or life-giving.
- Necessary to continued existence.
- Relating to the recording of life events.
- Very important.
- Synonyms: crucial, necessary, significant; see also Thesaurus:important
- Containing life; living.
- Synonyms: extant, live, kicking; see also Thesaurus:alive
- Capable of living; in a state to live; viable.
Derived terms
Related terms
Antonyms
- mortal
Translations
Further reading
- vital in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- vital in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin vitalis.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /vi?tal/
- (Central) IPA(key): /bi?tal/
Adjective
vital (masculine and feminine plural vitals)
- vital
Related terms
- vida
- vitalitat
French
Etymology
From Old French vital, from Latin v?t?lis (“of life, life-giving”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vi.tal/
- Homophones: vitale, vitales
Adjective
vital (feminine singular vitale, masculine plural vitaux, feminine plural vitales)
- vital
Related terms
- vitalité
- vie
Further reading
- “vital” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Galician
Etymology
From Latin v?t?lis (“of life, life-giving”).
Adjective
vital m or f (plural vitais)
- vital (relating to, or characteristic of life)
- vital, important, necessary
Related terms
- vida
- vitalidade
German
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin v?t?lis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vi?ta?l/
- Rhymes: -a?l
Adjective
vital (comparative vitaler, superlative am vitalsten)
- lively; hale; vigorous
- (rather rare, formal) vital (necessary to, or characteristic of life)
Declension
Synonyms
- (lively): lebhaft; markig; rüstig; voller Leben
- (vital): lebenswichtig; Lebens-
Interlingua
Adjective
vital (not comparable)
- vital
Related terms
- vita
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin vitalis.
Adjective
vital (neuter singular vitalt, definite singular and plural vitale)
- vital
References
- “vital” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin vitalis.
Adjective
vital (neuter singular vitalt, definite singular and plural vitale)
- vital
References
- “vital” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin vitalis.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /vi.?taw/
Adjective
vital m or f (plural vitais, comparable)
- vital (relating to, or characteristic of life)
- vital (necessary to the continuation of life)
- vital (very important)
- Synonyms: crucial, fundamental, essencial
Related terms
- vida
- vitalidade
Romanian
Etymology
From French vital, from Latin vitalis.
Adjective
vital m or n (feminine singular vital?, masculine plural vitali, feminine and neuter plural vitale)
- vital
Declension
Related terms
- vitalitate
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin vitalis.
Adjective
vital (plural vitales)
- vital
Derived terms
Related terms
- vitalidad
- vida
See also
- vivo
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high
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: h?, IPA(key): /ha?/, [ha??]
- (US) IPA(key): /ha?/, [ha??]
- Rhymes: -a?
- Homophones: hi, Hi, hie
Etymology 1
From Middle English high, heigh, heih, from Old English h?ah (“high, tall, lofty, high-class, exalted, sublime, illustrious, important, proud, haughty, deep, right”), from Proto-West Germanic *hauh (“high”), from Proto-Germanic *hauhaz (“high”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewk- (“to bend, curve, arch, vault”), a suffixed form of *kew-.
Cognate with Scots heich (“high”), Saterland Frisian hooch (“high”), West Frisian heech (“high”), Dutch hoog (“high”), Low German hoog (“high”), German hoch (“high”), Swedish hög (“high”), Norwegian høy (“high”), Icelandic hár (“high”), Lithuanian kaukas (“bump, boil, sore”), Russian ????? (kú?a, “pile, heap, stack, lump”).
Alternative forms
- hi (informal)
Adjective
high (comparative higher, superlative highest)
- Elevated, extending above a base or average level:
- Very elevated; extending or being far above a base; tall; lofty.
- Relatively elevated; rising or raised above the average or normal level from which elevation is measured.
- 1919, Martha Van Rensselaer, Flora Rose, Helen Canon, A Manual of Home-Making, page 376:
- A nightgown with a high neck and long sleeves may have the fullness set into a yoke.
- 1919, Martha Van Rensselaer, Flora Rose, Helen Canon, A Manual of Home-Making, page 376:
- (baseball, of a ball) Above the batter's shoulders.
- the pitch (or: the ball) was high
- Pertaining to (or, especially of a language: spoken in) in an area which is at a greater elevation, for example more mountainous, than other regions.
- Very elevated; extending or being far above a base; tall; lofty.
- Having a specified elevation or height; tall.
- three feet high three Mount Everests high
- Elevated in status, esteem, or prestige, or in importance or development; exalted in rank, station, or character.
- The oldest of the elves' royal family still conversed in High Elvish.
- 1855-57, Charles Dickens Little Dorrit
- The Barnacles were a very high family, and a very large family. They were dispersed all over the public offices, and held all sorts of public places.
- Most exalted; foremost.
- the high priest, the high officials of the court, the high altar
- Of great importance and consequence: grave (if negative) or solemn (if positive).
- high crimes, the high festival of the sun
- Consummate; advanced (e.g. in development) to the utmost extent or culmination, or possessing a quality in its supreme degree, at its zenith.
- high (i.e. intense) heat; high (i.e. full or quite) noon; high (i.e. rich or spicy) seasoning; high (i.e. complete) pleasure; high (i.e. deep or vivid) colour; high (i.e. extensive, thorough) scholarship; high tide; high [tourism] season; the High Middle Ages
- High time it is this war now ended were.
- 1709-1710, Thomas Baker, Reflections on Learning
- High sauces and rich spices are fetch'd from the Indies.
- Advanced in complexity (and hence potentially abstract and/or difficult to comprehend).
- 1802, William Wordsworth, England 1802
- Plain living and high thinking are no more.
- 1802, William Wordsworth, England 1802
- (in several set phrases) Remote in distance or time.
- high latitude, high antiquity
- 2007, Sheila Finch, Shaper's Legacy ?ISBN, page 122
- Not a one of them was old enough to know what the high past of Liani separatism had really been like.
- (in several set phrases) Very traditionalist and conservative, especially in favoring older ways of doing things; see e.g. high church, High Tory.
- 1858, Joseph Howe, Speeches and Public Letters, page 346:
- The letter of a "Pioneer" was sent to the Chronicle office by a very respectable man, of a high conservative family, but whose interests have been injuriously affected by the constant fluctuations in the commercial policy of England.
- 1861 (printed 2003), Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Regnery Publishing (?ISBN)
- His family was ardently royalist, and might be compared to a high Tory family on this side the water; with some change of conditions, their prejudices and disposition of the mind were the same.
- 2005, Jesse D. Geller, John C. Norcross, David E. Orlinsky, The Psychotherapist's Own Psychotherapy, Oxford University Press (?ISBN), page 69:
- My father was the youngest son of a High-Church and high Tory family, the politically leftwing and religiously Nonconformist rebel; and antiimperialist who nearly lost his position in the City by refusing to sign his firm's pro–Boer War petition.
- 1858, Joseph Howe, Speeches and Public Letters, page 346:
- Elevated in mood; marked by great merriment, excitement, etc.
- in high spirits
- 1970, Grateful Dead, High Time, on the album Workingman's Dead
- I was having a high time, living the good life.
- (of a lifestyle) Luxurious; rich.
- high living, the high life
- 2010, Rose Maria McCarthy Anding. High Heels, Honey Lips, & White Powder
- I was living the high lifestyle in famous sex clubs, relaxing on luxurious sofas, in the saunas and whirlpools, enjoying moments of excitement with my male and female companions while sipping champagne from crystal glasses.
- Lofty, often to the point of arrogant, haughty, boastful, proud.
- a high tone
- An high look and a proud heart […] is sin.
- His forces, after all the high discourses, amounted really but to eighteen hundred foot.
- (with "on" or "about") Keen, enthused.
- 2010, Lena, quoted by S. Rosenbloom, The Multiracial Urban High School: Fearing Peers and Trusting Friends (?ISBN), chapter four:
- I'm not that high about the relationship.
- 2010, Lena, quoted by S. Rosenbloom, The Multiracial Urban High School: Fearing Peers and Trusting Friends (?ISBN), chapter four:
- (of a body of water) With tall waves.
- Large, great (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).
- Can heavenly minds such high resentment show?
- Having a large or comparatively larger concentration of (a substance, which is often but not always linked by "in" when predicative).
- 1907, The American Exporter, volume 60, page 101:
- Anyone can determine for himself whether certain wire is high carbon or not. Heat a piece of the wire red hot and while red plunge into water till cold.
- (acoustics) Acute or shrill in pitch, due to being of greater frequency, i.e. produced by more rapid vibrations (wave oscillations).
- (phonetics) Made with some part of the tongue positioned high in the mouth, relatively close to the palate.
- (card games) Greater in value than other cards, denominations, suits, etc.
- (poker) Having the highest rank in a straight, flush or straight flush.
- I have KT742 of the same suit. In other words, a K-high flush.
- 9-high straight = 98765 unsuited
- Royal Flush = AKQJT suited = A-high straight flush
- (of a card or hand) Winning; able to take a trick, win a round, etc.
- North's hand was high. East was in trouble.
- 1894, Harper's Magazine, volume 88, page 910:
- Cutler pushed forward the two necessary white chips. No one's hand was high, and Loomis made a slight winning.
- (poker) Having the highest rank in a straight, flush or straight flush.
- (of meat, especially venison) Strong-scented; slightly tainted/spoiled; beginning to decompose.
- Epicures do not cook game before it is high.
- (informal) Intoxicated; under the influence of a mood-altering drug, formerly usually alcohol, but now (from the mid-20th century) usually not alcohol but rather marijuana, cocaine, heroin, etc.
- (nautical, of a sailing ship) Near, in its direction of travel, to the (direction of the) wind.
Synonyms
- haute, hawt
- (elevated): See Thesaurus:tall
- (intoxicated): See Thesaurus:stoned or Thesaurus:drunk
Antonyms
- low
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Pages starting with “high”.
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: hei
Translations
See also
- mighty
Adverb
high (comparative higher, superlative highest)
- In or to an elevated position.
- How high above land did you fly?
- In or at a great value.
- Costs have grown higher this year again.
- At a pitch of great frequency.
- I certainly can't sing that high.
Usage notes
- The adverb high and the adverb highly should not be confused.
- He hung the picture high on the wall.
- As a politician, he isn't esteemed too highly.
Translations
References
- Yuri Dolgopolov, A Dictionary of Confusable Phrases: More Than 10,000 Idioms (2016, ?ISBN): "high on something"
Noun
high (plural highs)
- A high point or position, literally (as, an elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven).or figuratively (as, a point of success or achievement; a time when things are at their best, greatest, most numerous, maximum, etc).
- It was one of the highs of his career.
- Inflation reached a ten-year high.
- 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- South Korea has reached a new high in a kind of air pollution measured in fine dust.
- South Korea has reached a new high in a kind of air pollution measured in fine dust.
- The maximum atmospheric temperature recorded at a particular location, especially during one 24-hour period.
- Today's high was 32 °C.
- A period of euphoria, from excitement or from an intake of drugs.
- 2013, Daniel Taylor, Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic climbs highest to sink Benfica (in The Guardian, 15 May 2013)[3]
- They will have to reflect on a seventh successive defeat in a European final while Chelsea try to make sense of an eccentric season rife with controversy and bad feeling but once again one finishing on an exhilarating high.
- 2013, Daniel Taylor, Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic climbs highest to sink Benfica (in The Guardian, 15 May 2013)[3]
- A drug that gives such a high.
- (meteorology, informal) A large area of elevated atmospheric pressure; an anticyclone.
- A large high is centred on the Azores.
- (card games) The highest card dealt or drawn.
Translations
See also
- crash
Verb
high (third-person singular simple present highs, present participle highing, simple past and past participle highed)
- (obsolete) To rise.
- The sun higheth.
Etymology 2
From Middle English hi?e, hu?e, hui?e, huie, hige, from Old English hy?e (“thought, mind, heart, disposition, intention, courage, pride”), from Proto-West Germanic *hugi, from Proto-Germanic *hugiz (“mind, sense”), of unknown origin. Cognate with North Frisian huwggje (“mind, sense”), Middle Low German höge, hoge (“thought, meaning, mood, happiness”), Middle High German hüge, huge, hoge (“mind, spirit, memory”), Danish hu (“mind”), Swedish håg (“mind, inclination”), Icelandic hugur (“mind”). Related to Hugh.
Noun
high (plural highs)
- (obsolete)
- Thought; intention; determination; purpose.
Etymology 3
See hie.
Verb
high (third-person singular simple present highs, present participle highing, simple past and past participle highed)
- To hie; to hasten.
Anagrams
- GHIH
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