high-minded

See also: highminded

English

Adjective

high-minded (comparative more high-minded, superlative most high-minded)

1. Given to idealism.
   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Author and the Actress”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 106:

     Walter was the ideal—generous, high-minded, clear in perception; but sensitive, even weak, in action; or, rather, too apt to imagine a world full of lofty aims and noble impulses, and then fancying that was the world in which he had to live.

2. Refined, cultured, particularly civilized.
   • 2014 September 8, Michael White, “Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe”, in The Guardian:

     After the pause for much more self-deprecating laughter and with everyone listening, Salmond rounded off his story on a high-minded note. The hospital near that village is also powered by the same hydro project, he told them.

3. Proud or arrogant.
4. Magnanimous.

Derived terms

• high-mindedly
• high-mindedness

Translations

given to idealism

refined, cultured, particularly civilized

• Bulgarian: благоро́ден (bg) (blagoróden)
• Irish: mórintinneach
• Manx: ard-aignagh, ard-chreeoil, mooar-aggindagh, ard-aggindagh
• Scottish Gaelic: inntinneach