Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- High-strung; intent; eager.
- In music, at a high pitch.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of persons) excitable
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word high-keyed.
Examples
-
Condo is an enthusiastic confident drawer who paints in high-keyed funky color with flourish.
Jerry Saltz: Ask an Art Critic: Jerry Saltz Answers Your Questions About George Condo, Online Art Fairs, and What Abstraction Really Is Jerry Saltz 2011
-
Condo is an enthusiastic confident drawer who paints in high-keyed funky color with flourish.
Jerry Saltz: Ask an Art Critic: Jerry Saltz Answers Your Questions About George Condo, Online Art Fairs, and What Abstraction Really Is Jerry Saltz 2011
-
"You be off, I say," she rasped in her high-keyed voice, "or I'll put the constable after you."
THE PRODIGAL FATHER 2010
-
Far from overpowering the beholder by the juxtaposition of high-keyed complementaries -one of the stock devices of what has come to be called "op art"- Hover tends to appear dark, subdued and perhaps uninteresting at first glance.
Archive 2010-01-01 EAGEAGEAG 2010
-
Far from overpowering the beholder by the juxtaposition of high-keyed complementaries -one of the stock devices of what has come to be called "op art"- Hover tends to appear dark, subdued and perhaps uninteresting at first glance.
Michael Fried on Kenneth Noland EAGEAGEAG 2010
-
New York The French painter Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) combined the paint-handling of the Post-Impressionists with the high-keyed palette of the Nabis and the Fauves -- artists who concerned themselves with the poetic and expressive, rather than the naturalistic, functions of color.
-
I tried it yesterday on their signature thick circular "token" card, and I liked it much more than other Bonds, which I find much too sweet and high-keyed.
Brooklyn by Bond No 9: Perfume Review Marina Geigert 2009
-
The high-keyed chromatic juxtapositions of Picasso's Homme à la pipe of November 7, 1968, bring to mind (if not with paint - chip exactitude, then closely enough) the clangorous combination of poison green, bismuth pink, and icy aquamarine in Pontormo's Deposition of circa 1528 in the Capponi Chapel in Florence.
The Late Show Filler, Martin 2009
-
Watching the debate last night between would-be vice-presidents Joe Biden and Sarah Palin, we were struck by Palin's relentless glorification of her man, John McCain, and the high-keyed, almost manic manner in which she presented herself.
-
Again the professor burst into high-keyed laughter.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.