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high-grade

high-grade

9 3.9
Of very good quality for important uses
  • adjective
  • /haɪ ɡreɪd/
translation icon : de alta calidad
  • This restaurant serves delicious dishes made with high-grade ingredients.
  • high-grade tumors
  • high-grade comorbidity

And you talked there about how being invested in high grade corporate bonds has paid.

Examples

  • The clamps, made of high-grade steel, come in four sizes, from 700 to 7,500 lbs. holding capacity.

    Academic text (2004)
  • It's small, made of high-grade plastic designed to look like wood, and it fools most people.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • You need a high-grade engineer, special talent.

  • I am hoping to view the same high-grade blog posts by you later on as well.

    Blog text (30)
  • So overall I'd give EVGA pretty high grade here for ease of maintenance for the end user.

  • Those mountains are full of high-grade anthracite.

  • We're talking high-grade, silicone-rubber flesh here.

  • Composed of high-grade steel and graphite.

  • From now on, I'm a manufacturer of high-grade automobile trailers!

    Fiction book (1994)
  • Tumors are classified as low-grade or high-grade, depending on their cellularity, pleomorphism, and mitotic activity.

    Academic text (2006)

Synonyms

high-quality
vshigh-grade
68 2.7

Very good and done with care

is about being higher in standard than similar items
upscale
vshigh-grade
66 5.5

Expensive and high quality, liked by people with more money

is focused on superior quality regardless of price or target audience
quality
vshigh-grade
27 3.5

Made well so it lasts a long time

is the comparative phrase stressing higher standard among others
top-notch
vshigh-grade
14 4.4

Very high quality and among the best

is about being higher than others without necessarily matching the very best
top-quality
vshigh-grade
9 3.8

Very high quality and lasts a long time

is used for something better than most without claiming absolute top
top-flight
vshigh-grade
9 6.2

Of very high quality and among the best in its field

is about being higher standard rather than belonging to a small elite group
select
vshigh-grade
  • Formal
8 3.7

Very good quality and better than most others

is about higher standard generally, not about being chosen or limited
high caliber
vshigh-grade
  • US
5 4.4

A person or work that shows very good skill

is about being a higher grade rather than personal ability
top-grade
vshigh-grade
3 3.7

Of the highest quality, better than others like it

is for items higher than others but not always the single best

Antonyms

11 4.4

Not very good and worth less than similar things

How Good

top-grade
3 3.7
premium
74 4.3
high-grade
9 3.9
good
1.0
standard
1.6
low-grade
11 4.4

Surface Forms

high-grade positive

Morphology

high-grade = high + grade (transparent) = high + grade

The meaning 'of superior quality' follows directly from the combination 'high' (greater) + 'grade' (quality/level).

Etymology

The word high-grade comes from the two parts high and grade, and grade originally meant a 'step' or 'level', as in a school grade. So, high-grade means something at a 'high level' or of better quality than other things.