lawf ti
1. of great height; high.
From a great distance, they spotted the castle’s lofty towers.
This evening they sit beneath the lofty palm trees, where the crane flutters round them with its long wings, and the pelican watches them from the branches of the mimosa. The luxuriant herbage is trampled down, crushed by the feet of elephants. (Hans Christian Andersen, Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen)
2. superior, noble, or exalted.
She had lofty goals of bettering mankind.
Not a few men who cherish lofty and noble ideals hide them under a bushel for fear of being called different. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
3.showing a belief that one is superior to other people; proud; arrogant.
The boss’s son strode past our desks with a lofty air.