Usually means: High, elevated in status, idealistic.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word lofty:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. lofty: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. lofty: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lofty: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. lofty: Collins English Dictionary
  5. lofty: Vocabulary.com
  6. Lofty, lofty: Wordnik
  7. lofty: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Lofty, lofty: Wiktionary
  9. lofty: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. lofty: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. lofty: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Lofty, lofty: Dictionary.com
  13. lofty: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Lofty: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. lofty: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. lofty: Rhymezone
  17. Lofty: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. lofty: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. Lofty: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  20. lofty: Free Dictionary
  21. lofty: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. lofty: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. lofty: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. lofty: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lofty: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lofty: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. lofty: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See loftier as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  High, tall, having great height or stature.
adjective:  Idealistic, implying over-optimism.
adjective:  Extremely proud; arrogant; haughty.
noun:  (informal) nickname for a tall (usually male) person

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