sky-high
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- 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
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Watch on YouTubeFirst, 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.
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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
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5.2
Very extreme or exaggerated in a way that seems unreasonable
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6.2
Much higher than normal in amount or level
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7.3
Extremely high in amount or level
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4.8
Very high in level and common in technical fields
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4.9
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
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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.