altivolant means flying high; soaring. It carries an Arena rating of 1551, earned across 6 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, altivolant ranks #1,628 of 17,130 for Most Beautiful Words, #2,558 of 17,140 for Most Whimsical Words, #3,010 of 17,124 for Most Sublime Words, #4,255 of 17,142 for Most Ingenious Words.
Why “altivolant” is a great word
Flying high; soaring. From the Latin altivolans, altivolantis, from altus ("high, deep") + volans, present participle of volare ("to fly"). Unlike "volant," which denotes the mere capacity for flight, or "subvolant," which skims the earth in low passage, altivolant insists upon altitude as its essence. It is the eagle circling a thermal at dawn, the wedge of geese threading the stratosphere, the satellite in its silent, geostationary arc—a word for the pure, untethered geometry of ascent, where the world shrinks to a whisper beneath the wings.
Etymology
From Latin altivolans. See volant.
adj
- Flying high; soaring.e.g.“So he thus
Repuls'd the tempter, who, not yet abash'd,
Bore him altivolant from Salem's tow'rs” — 1833, William Ellis Wall, Christ Crucified:
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