Definition

1. Adverb:

   • To a very high level or degree: Used to describe something that has reached an extreme or very great height, amount, or intensity.
   • In a lavish or enthusiastic manner: Used to describe praising or celebrating something to an extreme degree.
   • Completely destroyed; blown apart: Used with verbs like 'blow' to indicate something is shattered or demolished utterly.

2. Adjective:

   • Extremely high: Describing something that is at a great height or has reached an extreme level, such as a price or a pile.

Usage Examples

• Adverb:

  • After the announcement, their spirits soared sky-high.
  • The coach praised the team's effort sky-high.
  • The old factory was blown sky-high to make way for new construction.

• Adjective:

  • We are facing sky-high prices for basic groceries.
  • The kids built a sky-high tower of blocks.

Advanced Usage

• "to go sky-high": to increase to an extremely high level.
  • Interest rates are expected to go sky-high next quarter.
• "to blow something sky-high": to destroy something completely by explosion; to completely disprove or demolish an idea, plan, or argument.
  • The new evidence blew the prosecutor's theory sky-high.
• "piled sky-high": stacked or accumulated to a very great height.
  • The paperwork on his desk was piled sky-high.

Variants and Related Words

• High (adj/adv): At a great vertical extent; great in degree. (A more general term).
• Soaring (adj): Rising or increasing rapidly to a high level.

Synonyms

• Extremely
• Exorbitantly (often for prices)
• Enthusiastically (for praise)
• Completely (for destruction)

Related Phrases

• Through the roof: An idiom with a similar meaning of reaching a very high level, especially for prices or emotions.
  • Sales have gone through the roof this month.

Related Idioms

• Sky's the limit: There is no upper boundary or restriction. (Note: This is a related idiom, not a direct variant of 'sky-high').
  • With your talent, the sky's the limit for your career.

Adverb

1. to a very high level
   • prices have gone sky-high
   • garbage was piled sky-high
   • the men were flung sky-high by the explosion
2. in a lavish or enthusiastic manner
   • he extolled her virtues sky-high
3. (with verb `to blow') destroyed completely; blown apart or to pieces
   • they blew the bridge sky-high
   • the committee blew the thesis sky-high