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Definition of High-keyed
1. Adjective. (of persons) excitable.
Lexicographical Neighbors of High-keyed
Literary usage of High-keyed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wilson's Photographic Magazine (1914)
"It does not follow from this that the low-keyed portraiture was bad, and that
the high-keyed work, so fashionable today, is good. ..."
2. A new pronouncing dictionary of the Spanish and English languages by Mariano Velázquez de la Cadena, Edward Gray, Juan L. Iribas (1902)
"Highfalutin [bai'-fa-lD-tln], a. (Ger. EU) Hinchado, pomposo, retumbante.—s.
Estilo altisonante, palabras retumbantes. high-keyed, a. 1. ..."
3. First Steps in the Enjoyment of Pictures by Maude I. G. Oliver (1920)
"We said that the high-keyed only of very light colors, or tints, as we call colors
that are mixed with white and are made lighter in that way. ..."
4. Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative by Richard Henry Dana (1895)
"Through this crowd I made my way, along the well-built and well- lighted streets,
as alive as by day, where boys in high- keyed voices were already crying ..."
5. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1896)
"... had some weak squeaking notes, but it also had phrases of rich blackbird
quality, recalling the o-ka-lef of the marshes. One of these was a high keyed ..."
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