Usually means: Elevated in style or quality.
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  1. high-toned: Merriam-Webster
  2. high-toned: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. high-toned: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. high-toned, high-toned: Collins English Dictionary
  5. high-toned: Vocabulary.com
  6. high-toned: Wordnik
  7. high-toned: Wiktionary
  8. high-toned: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. high-toned: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. high-toned: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. High-toned, high-toned: Dictionary.com
  12. High-toned: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. high-toned: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. high-toned: FreeDictionary.org
  15. high-toned: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. high-toned: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. High-toned: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. high-toned: Rhymezone

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▸ adjective:  Having a pretentious, high-class attitude

Similar:
elegant, high-class, high-nosed, hoity-toity, haughty, sophomoric, Airy, pseudo-sophisticated, snobbish, airish, more...

Opposite:
lowbrow, uncultured, unrefined, unsophisticated

Types:
hoity-toity, snooty, stuck-up, uppity, snobby, elitist, more...

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Similar:
elegant, high-class, high-nosed, hoity-toity, haughty, sophomoric, Airy, pseudo-sophisticated, snobbish, airish, more...

Opposite:
lowbrow, uncultured, unrefined, unsophisticated

Types:
hoity-toity, snooty, stuck-up, uppity, snobby, elitist, more...



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