lofty

Modifies a noun

• eminence: The parish church, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, stands on a lofty eminence.
• perch: For Wales or Ireland or Scotland to beat the English they have to drag them down off their lofty perch.
• spire: Perhaps the worst result of the storm locally was the destruction of the lofty spire of Foxearth parish church.
• disdain: To my surprise, Deirdre's smile was no longer one of lofty disdain.
• ambition: The preamble to the UN charter sets out the lofty ambition, " to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war " .
• fell: It is a small edifice, surrounded by lofty fells and mountains.

Modifying Another Word

• however: However lofty the motive, routine intrusion is not for your own good.
• rather: That sounds rather lofty work, does it not?
• too: Nothing should be too strange or too remote, nothing too lofty or too low, to be included in its scope; .
• very: The road led in a south-eastern direction gradually upward to very lofty regions.
• so: Whether I achieve so lofty an ideal or not, I share the dream of fellow researchers.
• not: If the support be not lofty, the shoot falls to the ground, and resting there, the extremity rises up.