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The meaning of HIGH-HANDED is having or showing no regard for the rights, concerns, or feelings of others : arbitrary, overbearing. How to use high-handed in a sentence.
If you say that someone is high-handed, you disapprove of them because they use their authority in an unnecessarily forceful way without considering other people's feelings.
Synonyms for HIGH-HANDEDNESS: arrogance, imperiousness, bossiness, superciliousness, haughtiness, pretence, peremptoriness, disdain; Antonyms of HIGH-HANDEDNESS: humility, modesty, unpretentiousness, shyness, bashfulness, timidity, diffidence, demureness.
noun. These are words and phrases related to high-handedness. Click on any word or phrase to go to its thesaurus page. Or, go to the definition of high-handedness. GALL. Synonyms. insolence. rudeness. presumption. sauciness. gall. impudence. effrontery. boldness. audacity. temerity. assurance. brazenness. brass. nerve. cheek.
High-handed definition: Using power or authority without proper consideration for the feelings or rights of others.
1. at, from, or reaching up to, a great distance from ground-level, sea-level etc. a high mountain; a high dive; a dive from the high diving-board. alto. 2. having a particular height. This building is about 20 metres high; My horse is fifteen hands high. de altura. 3. great; large; considerable.
The earliest known use of the adjective high-handed is in the early 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for high-handed is from 1606, in the writing of Henoch Clapham, writer on theology and preacher. high-handed is formed within English, by compounding.
