high-stepping

1. 1.

   having or moving with a high step

   “his high-stepped stride”

   “a high-stepping horse”

   Synonymshigh-stepped

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Questions about high-stepping

What does high-stepping mean?

high-stepping means "having or moving with a high step".

How many syllables are in high-stepping?

high-stepping has 3 syllables: high--step-ping. The stress falls on "high-".

What is another word for high-stepping?

Close synonyms include high-stepped. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is high-stepping a common word?

high-stepping 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.