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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style;
- Example: "an exalted ideal"
- Example: "argue in terms of high-flown ideals"- Oliver Franks
- Example: "a noble and lofty concept"
- Example: "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;
- Example: "an eminent peak"
- Example: "lofty mountains"
- Example: "the soaring spires of the cathedral"
- Example: "towering icebergs"
[syn: eminent, lofty, soaring, towering]

3. having or displaying great dignity or nobility;
- Example: "a gallant pageant"
- Example: "lofty ships"
- Example: "majestic cities"
- Example: "proud alpine peaks"
[syn: gallant, lofty, majestic, proud]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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.
                                                  15.
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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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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