high
- adjective
- /haɪ/
- NSFW
- You're still high.
- get high
- high on drugs
- high on alcohol
I'd still be sort of high a bit in the end.
- I'd still be sort of high a bit in the end.
- Mind you, I'm not high and I'm not paranoid.
- I really don't get high on my own supply.
- No, he was drunk and high on fentanyl and marijuana.
- It's it's real sort of way out there high, but the come Down's terrible.
- It looks like it's high off of licking your foot.
Examples
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But I was so high.
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But ultimately, Dan, were you high or sober?
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Yeah, he probably got high, kind of.
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So I went with them and I remember I got so high being of service.
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Are you high right now?
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I wondered if he might be high on some kind of drug.
Fiction book (1995) -
You're a little high.
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You're high man, Walter.
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After a few drinks, I felt pleasantly high and happy at the party.
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He enjoyed the feeling of being high as he listened to his favorite music.
Synonyms
A little drunk after drinking a small amount of alcohol
Feeling slightly drunk or high and relaxed
Someone who is high after using drugs, often cannabis
Antonyms
Idioms
- Literature
To be at the top of a place or feel very excited, sometimes meaning from a power above
- NSFW
A state of great excitement and happiness, sometimes from drinking alcohol or taking drugs
- Informal
To feel too proud of your own work or ideas and ignore other people's advice
- Informal
To stop acting like you are better than other people
- Informal
To act as if you are better than others and tell them they are wrong
- Informal
To be in a risky situation that needs great care to avoid failure
- Informal
Act with dignity and good behavior when others act mean or unfair
Compounds
- Specialized
A condition in which blood pushes too hard against vessel walls and increases health risks
- UK
The top group of judges in a country or state that hears the most important cases and appeals
- Informal
A gesture two people make by slapping raised open hands together to celebrate
- Specialized
A very strong chemical that explodes quickly and makes a lot of gas and energy
- Informal
A gesture where two people each raise one hand and slap palms to celebrate
- Formal
A crime of betraying someone's country by trying to overthrow the government or help its enemies
An athletic event where athletes jump over a horizontal bar without knocking it down
How Intoxicated
Surface Forms
Etymology
A helpful way to remember the drug meaning is to think of high as being 'lifted up' from the old English heah, which became a common image for the altered feeling after drugs. So someone who is high feels a raised or changed state from alcohol or drugs.