high-principled

1. 1.

   having high principles

   Similarprincipled

Questions about high-principled

What does high-principled mean?

high-principled means "having high principles".

How many syllables are in high-principled?

high-principled has 3 syllables and divides as high--princi-pled under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is high-principled a common word?

high-principled is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.