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Definition: High-handed |
High-handedAdjective1. Given to haughty disregard of others. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "high-handed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1832. (references) |
Synonym: High-handedSynonym: cavalier (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Insolence | Adjective: insolent, haughty, arrogant, imperious, magisterial, dictatorial, arbitrary; high-handed, high and mighty; contumelious, supercilious, overbearing, intolerant, domineering, overweening, high-flown. |
Pride | Adjective: dignified; stately; proud, proud-crested; lordly, baronial; lofty-minded; highsouled, high-minded, high-mettled, high-handed, high-plumed, high-flown, high-toned. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: High-handed |
| English words defined with "high-handed": high-handedly. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I am grateful, you know, for the ill-conceived and high-handed attempt to defend my honor although I didn't want you to. (Firefly; writing credit: John Sullivan) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "High-handed" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 75.44% of the time. "High-handed" is used about 57 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 75.44% | 43 | 52,181 |
| Adverb (general) | 24.56% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Total | 100.00% | 57 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "high-handed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 霸" (overbearing, potent, rule by force, strong), 高" . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | eigenmachtig optreden (to act in a high-handed manner). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | mielivaltainen (arbitrary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | agir d'autorité (to act in a high-handed manner). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | eigenmaechtig handeln (to act in a high-handed manner), aus eigener Macht handeln (to act in a high-handed manner). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αυθαίρετος (arbitrary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | agire d'autorit (to act in a high-handed manner). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 高飛車 (domineering, on one's high horse), 高圧的 (oppressive), 強引 (coercive, forcible, overbearing, pushy), 嵩高 (bulky, lofty, Songshan, unwieldy), 居丈高 (overbearing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | たかびしゃ (domineering, on one's high horse), かさ か (bulky, unwieldy), いたけ か (overbearing), "うい" (carousing, coercive, drinking, forcible, karma, overbearing, pushy), "うあつてき (oppressive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | kioneysagh (assertive, commanding, dominating, domineer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | igh-handedhay agir com plenos poderes (to act in a high-handed manner). (various references) властный (autocratic, autocratical, bossy, dictatorial, domineering, high handed, imperious, masterful, overbearing). (various references) ยโสโอหัง. (various references) kiêu căng hống hách; độc đoán, chuyên chế; vũ đoán. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "high-handed" (pronounced 'High"-hand`ed'): Above-cited, Aforecited, Alike-minded, Antimoniureted, armor-plated, Arrowheaded, Arseniureted, Backhanded, baldheaded, Bank-sided, Barefooted, Barehanded, Beetle-headed, black-hearted, Blockheaded, Bluff-headed, Bristle-pointed, Broken-hearted, Broken-winded, Buckler-headed, Buffle-headed, Bullheaded, Carnal-minded, Cataphracted, Chicken-breasted, Chicken-hearted, Chuckleheaded, Clear-headed, Clear-sighted, Cleft-footed, Clodpated, Close-banded, Closefisted, Closehanded, Clubfisted, Clubfooted, Cold-blooded, Cold-hearted, Cool-headed, Cowhearted, Cross-banded, Dead-hearted, Deep-waisted, Dim-sighted, Discalceated, Dog-headed, Dog-hearted, Double-breasted, Doublethreaded, Dough-kneaded. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: highhanded. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-g-h-h-h-i-n" | |
-3 letters: heading. | |
-4 letters: adding, danged, dinged, gained, hading, haeing, handed, hanged, hidden, hinged, nighed. | |
-5 letters: aided, deign, dined, dinge, gaddi, gadid, haded, heigh, hided, hinge, neigh, nided. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-g-h-h-h-i-n" | |
+2 letters: highhandedly. | |
+4 letters: highhandedness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 69 67 68 2D 68 61 6E 64 65 64 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01101001 01100111 01101000 00101101 01101000 01100001 01101110 01100100 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H i g h - h a n d e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0069 0067 0068 002D 0068 0061 006E 0064 0065 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4275737415746780707170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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