Definition of High-keyed

1. Adjective. (of persons) excitable.

Similar to: Excitable

Lexicographical Neighbors of High-keyed

high-grade
high-handed
high-handedly
high-hanging fruit
high-hat
high-hat cymbal
high-hats
high-hearted
high-heeled
high-hoe
high-holder
high-jump
high-jumper
high-jumpers
high-kV technique
high-keyed (current term)
high-level
high-level formatting
high-level language
high-level languages
high-level radioactive waste
high-low
high-low-jack
high-lows
high-maintenance
high-marking
high-minded
high-mindedly
high-mindedness
high-mobility group protein

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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