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Definition of "high-keyed" [high-keyed]

  • High-strung; intent; eager.
  • In music, at a high pitch.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "high-keyed" in a sentence
  • "Condo is an enthusiastic confident drawer who paints in high-keyed funky color with flourish."
  • ""You be off, I say," she rasped in her high-keyed voice, "or I'll put the constable after you.""
  • "Far from overpowering the beholder by the juxtaposition of high-keyed complementaries -one of the stock devices of what has come to be called "op art"- Hover tends to appear dark, subdued and perhaps uninteresting at first glance."
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