Usually means: Elevated; up in the air.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word Aloft:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. aloft: Merriam-Webster
  2. aloft: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. aloft: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. aloft: Collins English Dictionary
  5. aloft: Vocabulary.com
  6. Aloft, aloft: Wordnik
  7. aloft: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. aloft: Wiktionary
  9. aloft: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. aloft: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. aloft: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Aloft, aloft: Dictionary.com
  13. aloft: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. aloft: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Aloft (film): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Aloft: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. aloft: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. aloft: Rhymezone
  19. aloft: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. aloft: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. aloft: FreeDictionary.org
  22. aloft: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. aloft: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. aloft: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  25. aloft: Merriam-Webster

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ALOFT: Acronym Finder
  2. aloft: Idioms

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. ALOFT: Glossary of Nautical Terms
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  3. Aloft: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (aloft)

▸ adverb:  At, to, or in the air or sky.
▸ adverb:  Above, overhead, in a high place; up.
▸ adverb:  (nautical) In the top, at the masthead, or on the higher yards or rigging.

Similar:
loftily, airward, up in the air, skywardly, aerily, alpinely, soaringly, skywards, heavenwards, airily, more...

Opposite:
down, grounded, low, below, under

Phrases:
winds aloft, hold aloft, high aloft, trough aloft, stitch aloft, more...

Adjectives:
high, french, cold, vivacious, free, blue, rapt, more, current, look, dry

Colors:
    sky blue,     cloud white,     sunset orange,     sunrise pink,     dawn yellow, more...


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Similar:
loftily, airward, up in the air, skywardly, aerily, alpinely, soaringly, skywards, heavenwards, airily, more...

Opposite:
down, grounded, low, below, under

Phrases:
winds aloft, hold aloft, high aloft, trough aloft, stitch aloft, take aloft, Aloft Hotels, arms aloft, burning aloft, held aloft, opposite of aloft, holding something aloft, more...

Adjectives:
high, french, cold, vivacious, free, blue, rapt, more, current, look, dry

Colors:
    sky blue,     cloud white,     sunset orange,     sunrise pink,     dawn yellow, more...



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