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HIGHFLYING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Extravagant or ambitious or extreme in aims or opinions
Example:
they did not understand what had happend at the once highflying company
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Similar:
unrestrained (not subject to restraint)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Moving upward or along at a considerable height
Example:
some highflying fighter pilot fired a cannon shell into it
Classified under:
Similar:
ascending (moving or going or growing upward)
