important person vs high-up

high-up vs important person

important person and high-up both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
important person	Yes	No	No	No
high-up	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, high-up is a hyponym of important person; that is, high-up is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than important person:

important person: a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events
high-up: an important or influential (and often overbearing) person

Other hyponyms of important person include big cheese, big deal, big enchilada, big fish, big gun, big shot, big wheel, head honcho, celebrity, famous person, behemoth, colossus, giant, heavyweight, titan, elder statesman, eminence grise, Excellency, fixer, influence peddler, heavy hitter, hierarch, high-muck-a-muck, pooh-bah, kingmaker, bigwig, kingpin, top banana, magnifico, figure, name, public figure, nepotist, policy maker, power broker, powerbroker, sacred cow, sirdar, socialite, sun, dignitary, high muckamuck, panjandrum, very important person, VIP, worthy.

important person (noun)	high-up (noun)
a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events	an important or influential (and often overbearing) person

Difference between important person and high-up

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