Definitions for high-keyed

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Spelling: [hahy-keed]
IPA: /ˈhaɪˈkid/

High-Keyed is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 103 anagrams from letters in high-keyed (-deeghhiky).

Definitions for high-keyed

adjective

  1. very nervous or excitable; high-strung.

Examples for high-keyed

The beach-comber was talking in a high-keyed sing-song, but with a lisp.

From the Indian camp, back in the sage-inclosed hollow, rose a sound of high-keyed wailing.

"Nat talks too much, Mr. O'Day," he piped in a high-keyed voice.

Figure to yourself this eager little chap: high-keyed, timid, fervid: something of a buffoon, always a victim of his perceptions.

On it came, with its high-keyed horror growing louder and louder.

Her pose was rigid and unmoving; an attitude of distress and high-keyed misery of spirit.

Finally Dr. Nesbit spoke in his high-keyed voice: “I presume legal verbiage is all they talk in hell!”

He spoke in a high-keyed voice that had irritating suggestions in it.

She recognized it—the high-keyed, monotonous cry of a man who often hurried past with a bundle of newspapers under his arm.

With the first streaks of the gray dawn Anthony heard a little, high-keyed, strange cry—new to his ears.

Word Value for high-keyed
Scrable

11

Words with friends

10

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