High-backed refers to a piece of furniture such as a chair with a tall backrest. The opposite of high-backed would be low-backed. A low-backed chair or sofa has a shorter backrest, typically below shoulder height. Alternatively, the word short-backed may also refer to the opposite of high-backed. Short-backed chairs and sofas are less vertical, often having a curving backrest that doesn't extend to the same height as high-backed furniture. Additionally, flat-backed chairs and sofas would be antonyms for high-backed. Furniture pieces without any incline or curve in the backrest are typically flatter or even sloped forward.

What are the antonyms for High-backed?

• adj.

  • noun
  • backless
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Famous quotes with High-backed

• The numerous chimneys with their fantastic shapes rose grimly in the moonlight, like a strange band of goblin sentinels, perched of the roof to watch the mansion. The general effect was that of an ancient structure falling to decay, deserted by all inhabitants save the rats that gnawed the wainscot along the thick old walls. The door-plate that glittered on the faded door, half covered as it was with rust and verdigris, with its saintly name afforded the only signs of the actual occupation of Monk-hall by human beings: in all other respects it looked so desolate, so time-worn, so like a mausoleum for old furniture, and crumbling tapestry, for high-backed mahogany chairs, gigantic bedsteads, and strange looking mirrors, veiled in the thick folds of the spider's web.

  George Lippard

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