high-necked adj

high-necked adj
[ˌhaɪ'nɛkt]
(pullover, blouse) a collo alto

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  • high-necked — adj. High necked is used with these nouns: ↑blouse, ↑sweater …   Collocations dictionary

  • high-necked — adjective (of a garment) having a high neckline a high necked blouse • Similar to: ↑necked * * * /huy nekt /, adj. (of a garment) high at the neck. [1835 45] * * * highˈ neckedˈ adjective (of a garment) covering the shoulders and neck • • • Main… …   Useful english dictionary

  • high-necked — /huy nekt /, adj. (of a garment) high at the neck. [1835 45] * * * …   Universalium

  • demure — [[t]dɪmjʊ͟ə(r)[/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED (approval) If you describe someone, usually a young woman, as demure, you mean they are quiet and rather shy, usually in a way that you like and find appealing, and behave very correctly. She s very demure and… …   English dictionary

  • peek|a|boo — or peek a boo «PEE kuh boo», noun, adjective, interjection. –n. a young child s game in which a person s face or body is alternately hidden and revealed to the call of “boo” or “peekaboo”; bopeep: »When they play peek a boo, a father and his baby …   Useful english dictionary

  • proud — adj 1. content, contented, satisfied, gratified, pleased, well pleased, Inf. pleased as punch; glad, delighted, happy, sunny, cheerful; complacent, smug, self satisfied, self contented, pleased with oneself, like the cat that swallowed the canary …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • haughty — adj proud, self important, self satisfied, self complacent; vain, puffed up, Sl. swell headed, egotistical, know it all, conceited; arrogant, fastuous, overbearing, overweening, presumptuous, assuming; contemptuous, disdainful, scornful, derisive …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • stuffy — adj 1. close, poorly ventilated, ill ventilated; airless, stifling, suffocating, sultry, oppressive; stale, musty, moldy, mildewy, fusty, frowzy, Brit. Inf. frowsty. 2. dull, dull as dishwater, uninteresting, boring, bore some, tedious, tiresome …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • priggish — adj 1. prudish, puritanical, bluenosed, overmodest, old maidish; hidebound, strait laced, stiff, stiff necked, strict, severe, formal; snobbish, stilted, Inf. high hat, Sl. snooty, Sl. snotty; smug, sanctimonious, Inf. stuffy; fastidious,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • reptile — reptilelike, adj. reptiloid /rep tl oyd /, adj. /rep til, tuyl/, n. 1. any cold blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia, comprising the turtles, snakes, lizards, crocodilians, amphisbaenians, tuatara, and various extinct members including the… …   Universalium

  • Pride — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Pride >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 dignity dignity self respect mens sibi conscia recti =>(Vergil) GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 pride pride Sgm: N 2 haughtiness haughtiness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 2 high not …   English dictionary for students

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