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Etymology

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From high +‎ -ish.

Adjective

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highish (comparative more highish, superlative most highish)

  1. Somewhat high.
    • 2008 January 27, Terrence Rafferty, “Doesn’t Scare Easily”, in New York Times[1]:
      Reading Barron, though, I realized that part of the reason his stories leave me cold is that they assume, as too much genre fiction does, a highish level of reader credulity, and I resent it.