sky-high
- adjective
- /skaɪ haɪ/
- Unemployment rates are sky high, and the resultant poverty visits sickness and hunger on children, particularly.
- sky-high prices
- sky-high rates
- sky-high expectations
First, household savings rates are sky high, and so are household investing rates.
- First, household savings rates are sky high, and so are household investing rates.
- This, it claims, contributed to the price surge that took the businesses to sky high valuations.
- Also, stock valuations right now are sky high and sometimes they're totally dislocated from reality.
- So that's the reason why people want to own because the rents are sky high.
- And so they just couldn't clear the APOB out of their circulation and that's why they had sky high LDL and total cholesterol.
- They invested in all sorts of non tech companies that were made to look like tech in order to attain sky high valuations.
- In case you're not familiar with Brooklyn, Williamsburg is a super trendy, like posh part of Brooklyn with sky high real estate prices.
- I have very mixed feelings about President Kennedy, but his loyalty to people close to him was was sky high.
- Just because their LDL cholesterol was sky high had no effect whatsoever on plaque burden in their heart arteries.
- The reason that you don't want to buy into the euphoria is because when people are euphoric, prices are going sky high.
- They cook the books, it's in a recession, they have sky high inflation, and it's not a safe haven for investors.
- And often times that work isn't rewarded in the same way that you would see with other Youtubers who have sky high subscriber rates and things like that.
- Like, I guess I had sky high expectations that I would forever consistently and constantly be different.
Examples
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Expectations for Hughes have been sky high ever since he was compared to Roger.
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The bond market is thus free to bid up bond prices to sky-high levels.
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Now you want to walk away because your generation drove the prices sky high all the while building huge debt.
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The waist is once again right up there, sky high, just where Mama likes it.
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Our stock options were sky high... and the whole world was waiting for a revelation.
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First, household savings rates are sky high, and so are household investing rates.
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Gold prices are currently sky-high, and you can usually find better jewelry offers in the spring.
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Also, people were hurting a lot more back in 1980, with sky-high interest rates, than they are today.
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The 17-country eurozone is grappling with sky-high debt levels and record unemployment of 11.2 percent.
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The sky-high prices of the concert tickets surprised everyone who wanted to attend.
Synonyms
Very extreme or exaggerated in a way that seems unreasonable
Much higher than normal in amount or level
Extremely high in amount or level
Very high in level and common in technical fields
Much higher than normal in amount or level
Very tall, like a high building, or very large in amount
Rising quickly to a much higher level than usual
Higher than normal in amount or level
Very tall and impressive, rising high above other things
Antonyms
How High
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sky-high joins sky and high to give the clear image of a price or level reaching 'into the sky'. So, when costs are sky-high, they are extremely large and far above the usual.