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Definition of Highest
1. Adjective. (superlative of high#Adjective high lang=English POS=adjective) ¹
2. Adverb. (superlative of high#Adverb high lang=English POS=adverb) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Highest
1. high [adj] - See also: high
Lexicographical Neighbors of Highest
Literary usage of Highest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Psychology, General Introduction by Charles Hubbard Judd (1917)
"Inner organization essential to highest forms of personal behavior. The meaning
of a complex nervous system thus becomes clear. ..."
2. The Lancet (1898)
"This does not show that the intervening parts, those having large muscles, are
not represented at all in the highest level ; on ..."
3. The Republic of Plato by Plato (1888)
"I mean, that to lie with the highest part of himself, and concerning the highest
subjects, is what no one voluntarily consents to do; on the contrary, ..."
4. The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle, Frank Hesketh Peters (1881)
"But if happiness be the exercise of virtue, it is of the reasonable to suppose
that it will be the exercise of ii/e the highest virtue; and that will be the ..."