Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Height

Nouns
  • height, altitude, elevation
  • eminence, pitch
  • loftiness etc. adj.
  • sublimity. tallness etc. adj.
  • stature, procerity
  • prominence etc. Convexity. colossus etc. (size) Size
  • giant, grenadier, giraffe, camelopard. mount, mountain
  • hill alto, butte [U.S.], monticle, fell, knap
  • cape
  • headland, foreland
  • promontory
  • ridge, hog's back, dune
  • rising ground, vantage ground
  • down
  • moor, moorland
  • Alp
  • uplands, highlands
  • heights etc. (summit) Summit
  • knob, loma, pena [U.S.], picacho, tump
  • knoll, hummock, hillock, barrow, mound, mole
  • steeps, bluff, cliff, craig, tor, peak, pike, clough
  • escarpment, edge, ledge, brae
  • dizzy height. tower, pillar, column, obelisk, monument, steeple, spire, minaret, campanile, turret, dome, cupola
  • skyscraper. pole, pikestaff, maypole, flagstaff
  • top mast, topgallant mast. ceiling etc. (covering) Covering. high water
  • high tide, flood tide, spring tide. altimetry etc. (angel) Angularity
  • batophobia. satellite, spy-in-the-sky.
Verbs
  • be high etc. adj.
  • tower, soar, command
  • hover, hover over, fly over
  • orbit, be in orbit
  • cap, culminate
  • overhang, hang over, impend, beetle, bestride, ride, mount
  • perch, surmount
  • cover etc. Covering
  • overtop etc. (be superior) [Supremacy.] Superiority
  • stand on tiptoe. become high etc. adj.
  • grow higher, grow taller
  • upgrow
  • rise etc. (ascend) [Motion upwards] Ascent
  • send into orbit. render high etc. adj.
  • heighten etc. (elevate) Elevation.
Adjectives
  • high, elevated, eminent, exalted, lofty, tall
  • gigantic etc. (big) Size
  • Patagonian
  • towering, beetling, soaring, hanging (gardens)
  • elevated etc. Elevation
  • upper
  • highest etc. (topmost) Summit
  • high reaching, insessorial, perching. upland, moorland
  • hilly, knobby [U.S.]
  • mountainous, alpine, subalpine, heaven kissing
  • cloudtopt, cloudcapt, cloudtouching
  • aerial. overhanging etc. v.
  • incumbent, overlying, superincumbent, supernatant, superimposed
  • prominent etc. v. Convexity. tall as a maypole, tall as a poplar, tall as a steeple, lanky etc. (thin) Narrowness. Thinness.
Adverbs
  • on high, high up, aloft, up, above, aloof, overhead
  • airwind
  • upstairs, abovestairs
  • in the clouds
  • on tiptoe, on stilts, on the shoulders of
  • over head and ears
  • breast high. over, upwards
  • from top to bottom etc. (completely) Completeness.