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high-necked

high-necked

1 3.5
A piece of clothing with a neckline that rises high and covers most of the neck
  • adjective
  • /haɪ-nɛkt/
translation icon : de cuello alto
  • I wore a beautiful high-necked dress that made me feel elegant and warm.
  • high-necked blouse
  • high-necked dress
  • high-necked gown

It's so soft and beautiful and it's just a gorgeous grey ribbed high neck jumper.

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Examples

  • Photo (color): Christy in her high-necked black jersey.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • She was dressed simply in dark blue slacks, a white high-necked silk blouse, and a blue-and-white jacket.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • So soft, lovely high neck, lovely and tight.

  • It's a high neck, kind of like a little skiddy almost, which I think is really nice.

  • I love this style of dress, really high neck and I don't know, I just instantly fell in love with this one.

  • Next I got this white high necked jumper top.

  • It's so soft and beautiful and it's just a gorgeous grey ribbed high neck jumper.

  • First is this jumper, which has a high neck again and is cropped and long sleeves.

  • She wore a pioneer's high-necked dress in a brown shade that just matched her skin.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • She was wearing a tailored suit of pale pink linen with a high-necked blouse.

    Fiction book (1992)

How High

turtleneck
40 2.9
high-necked
1 3.5
crew neck
1 2.1

Surface Forms

high-necked positive

Morphology

high-necked = high + neck (transparent) = high + neck + ed

Formed by compounding 'high' + 'neck' and then adding '-ed' to indicate 'having a high neckline'; the meaning is directly inferable from the parts.

Etymology

High-necked is made from high ('up') and neck ('the part between the head and the shoulders'). So it describes a piece of clothing whose neckline sits 'high' on the neck and often covers most or all of it.