high-heeled

adjective

Having tall heels.

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adjectivehigh-heeled (not comparable)
  1. not comparablefootwearHaving tall heels.

    I preferred to think about school and a government job and how I would one day put on high-heeled shoes and wear a long skirt like other girls.

    2011, Elizabeth Ngozi Okpalaenwe, The Power to Succeed, page 7
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    For instance, impressions in the earth, of a certain size, shape, and pattern, would normally be sufficient evidence for a confident belief that a woman had walked over the ground wearing high-heeled shoes.

    1987, Robert Merrihew Adams, “Berkeley and Epistemology”, in Ernest Sosa, editor, Essays on the Philosophy of George Berkeley, page 145

    They wore designer clothes, white, tight, hip-huggers, and low neck blouses, high-heeled shoes, especially in the winters when they wore those sexy high-heeled boots, and tight jeans.

    2011, Mickey Demos, Life in Mani Today: The Road to Freedom, page 229

    High-heeled shoes are not typically constructed to accommodate the average male's heft, foot size, or gait. All high-heeled shoes, particularly extremely thin “stiletto” heels, require technical acumen in their design because the structure of the shoe focuses immense pressure on a small area; a petite woman in stilettos can exert 20 times the pressure of a 6,000 pound elephant under her heel.

    2015, Eve Shapiro, Gender Circuits: Bodies and Identities in a Technological Age, page 55

    Synonyms: high-heel

  2. not comparableWearing high heels.

    By all logic, high-heeled women should not constitute a threat: but they do.

    2002, Paula Rabinowitz, Black & White & Noir: America's Pulp Modernism, page 174
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    Within moments the high-heeled workers of Data Air are ensconced in the air conditioned hum of their "open office."

    2000, Carla Freeman, High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy: Women, Work, and Pink-Collar Identities in the Caribbean, page 1

    The foot abduction is smaller (out-toeing is smaller) in the high-heeled gait (Adrian and Karpovich, 1966; Snow and Williams, 1994; Stefanyshyn et al., 2000), or no significant difference exists between the flat-heeled and the high-heeled gait (Merrifield, 1971).

    2013, Makiko Kouchi, “11: High-Heeled Shoes”, in Ravindra S. Goonetilleke, editor, The Science of Footwear, page 267
verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of high-heel

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveHaving tall heels.

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Translations

Finnish korkeakorkoinen
  • korkeakorkoinenhaving tall heels
French à talon haut
  • à talon hauthaving tall heels
German hochhackig
  • hochhackighaving tall heels
Spanish de tacón, de tacón alto
  • de tacónhaving tall heels
  • de tacón altohaving tall heels
Swedish högklackad
  • högklackadhaving tall heels
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