'Heightened' definitions:
Definition of 'Heightened'
From: GCIDE
- Heighten \Height"en\ (h[imac]t"'n), v. t. [Written also highten.] [imp. & p. p. Heightened; p. pr. & vb. n. Heightening.]
- 1. To make high; to raise higher; to elevate. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To carry forward; to advance; to increase; to augment; to aggravate; to intensify; to render more conspicuous; -- used of things, good or bad; as, to heighten beauty; to heighten a flavor or a tint. "To heighten our confusion." --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- An aspect of mystery which was easily heightened to the miraculous. --Hawthorne. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'heightened'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accelerated,
- aggrandized,
- aggravated,
- amplified,
- annoyed,
- augmented,
- beefed-up,
- bloated,
- boosted,
- broadened,
- deepened,
- deliberately provoked,
- elevated,
- embittered,
- enhanced,
- enlarged,
- exacerbated,
- exasperated,
- expanded,
- extended,
- heated up,
- hiked,
- hotted up,
- increased,
- inflated,
- intensified,
- irritated,
- jazzed up,
- magnified,
- multiplied,
- proliferated,
- provoked,
- raised,
- reinforced,
- soured,
- spread,
- stiffened,
- strengthened,
- swollen,
- tightened,
- widened,
- worse,
- worsened