HIGHEST Synonyms: 121 Similar and Opposite Words

highest

adjective

as in higher

being at a point or level higher than all others the highest grade the highest flag on the pole

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as in greatest

coming before all others in importance turned to the highest authority for answers the highest official in the land

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Adjective

Shares of SpaceX slid more than 5% after the results were released and continued to slip during the conference call with top executives including Musk and President Gwynne Shotwell.

— Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2026
Travel + Leisure’s 2026 World’s Best Awards recognized several standout properties, with Rancho La Puerta in Tecate, Mexico, earning the top spot among international wellness retreats for more than a decade.

— Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of top

Adjective

Al-Hilal is keen to offload the player, who is training separately from their main squad and not in coach Simoene Inzaghi's plans.

— Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2026
The Nazca Lines, enormous drawings and ⁠geometric figures etched into desert plains in the south of the country, are one of Peru’s main tourist destinations, attracting approximately 100,000 annual visitors.

— Joe Kottke, NBC news, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of main

Adjective

The second-year midfielder, signed out of Duke before the 2025 season, drove forward with space in front of her before unleashing a shot from outside the penalty area into the upper corner for her first NWSL goal.

— Harold Gutmann, Mercury News, 2 Aug. 2026
Injuries are inevitable, and the Packers have been in the upper half of the NFL in games missed due to injury for three straight seasons.

— Rob Reischel, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of upper

Adjective

The company has committed to investing at least $1 billion to construct one roughly 300,000-square-foot facility, but the campus could expand to include up to five primary buildings, officials have said.

— Joseph Flaherty, Arkansas Online, 4 Aug. 2026
Whether Castillo and Gausman can return to form and help their respective clubs get deep into October will be a primary storyline here the rest of the year.

— Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of primary

Adjective

The Astros took over the division lead for the first time since April after a three-game sweep of the Rangers over the weekend.

— David Brandt, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2026
Amazon shares gained 4% and hit a new all-time high on Monday, putting its market cap over the $3 trillion threshold for the first time following a better-than-expected earnings report last week.

— Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of first

Adjective

With predominant compensation associated with clinical performance, the other aspects can gradually mount and lead to burnout.

— Nishtha Sareen, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
The Odyssey is a story set in the Bronze Age, written in the Iron Age, measured by which metal was the predominant metal that went into weapons of war and other kinds of tools.

— David Frum, The Atlantic, 29 July 2026

Definition of predominant

Adjective

Today, perhaps the foremost image of a moderate is that of a centrist on a left-right spectrum.

— Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
Briggs, the architect, built a reputation for bespoke luxury homes along the Orange County coast and was named among Architectural Digest’s 100 foremost architects in 1991, according to background materials from the listing team.

— David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of foremost

Adjective

But the dominant narrative embraced financial metrics as the solvent for every problem.

— Steve Denning, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2026
Yet even before acquiring Skubal, the Dodgers believed that, if healthy, their pitching staff might be the strongest of this dominant era.

— Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2026

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