13 definitions found for haughty

Haughty HAUGHTY, a. hau'ty. [from haught.]
1. Proud and disdainful; having a high opinion of one's self, with some contempt for others; lofty and arrogant; supercilious.
His wife was a woman of a haughty and imperious nature.
A haughty spirit goeth before a fall. Prov 16.
2. Proceeding from excessive pride, or pride mingled with contempt; manifesting pride and disdain; as a haughty air or walk.
3. Proud and imperious; as a haughty nation.
4. Lofty; bold; of high hazard; as a haughty enterprise.

haughty adj 1: having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer [syn: disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering]

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haughty 1530 (spelling changed on model of caught, etc.), from M.E. haute "high in one's own estimation" (1430), with adj. suffix, from O.Fr. haut "high," from L. altus, with initial h- by infl. of Frank. hoh.

haughty adjective (haughtier; -est) Etymology: obsolete haught, from Middle English haute, from Anglo-French halt, haut, literally, high, from Latin altus — more at old Date: 15th century blatantly and disdainfully proud Synonyms: see proud • haughtily adverb • haughtiness noun

haughty
adj. (haughtier, haughtiest) arrogantly self-admiring and disdainful.
Derivatives:
haughtily adv. haughtiness n.
Etymology: extension of haught (adj.), earlier haut f. OF haut f. L altus high

haughty You use haughty to describe someone's behaviour or appearance when you disapprove of the fact that they seem to be very proud and to think that they are better than other people. He spoke in a haughty tone. ADJ: usu ADJ n [disapproval] • haughtily Toni looked at him rather haughtily. ADV: usu ADV with v, also ADV adj

haughty ˈhɔ:tɪ adj. (haughtier, haughtiest) arrogantly self-admiring and disdainful. øøhaughtily adv. haughtiness n. [extension of haught (adj.), earlier haut f. OF haut f. L altus high]

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Haughty Haugh"ty, a. [Compar. Haughtier; superl. Haughtiest.] [OE. hautein, F. hautain, fr. haut high, OF. also halt, fr. L. altus. See Altitude.] 1. High; lofty; bold. [Obs. or Archaic] To measure the most haughty mountain's height. --Spenser. Equal unto this haughty enterprise. --Spenser 2. Disdainfully or contemptuously proud; arrogant; overbearing. A woman of a haughty and imperious nature. --Clarendon. 3. Indicating haughtiness; as, a haughty carriage. Satan, with vast and haughty strides advanced, Came towering. --Milton.

haughty a. Arrogant, disdainful, supercilious, assuming, proud, lofty, contemptuous.

haughty ˈhɔ:tɪ adj. arrogant, proud, superior, self-important, smug, self-satisfied, complacent, pretentious, conceited, egotistical, snobbish, overbearing, lofty, presumptuous, overweening, patronizing, supercilious, vain, condescending, contemptuous, belittling, derisive, disdainful, scornful, Colloq highfalutin or hifalutin, hoity-toity, stuck-up, swell-headed or swelled-headed or swollen-headed, high and mighty, on (his or her) high horse, snooty, la-di-da or lah-di-dah or la-de-da, Slang snotty, uppish, uppity: She's too haughty to have made any friends here.

98 Moby Thesaurus words for "haughty": Olympian, aerial, airy, aloof, altitudinous, arrogant, ascending, aspiring, belittling, big, boastful, cavalier, clannish, cliquish, colossal, complacent, conceited, condescending, contemptuous, contumelious, derisive, detached, disdainful, distant, dominating, domineering, egotistic, egotistical, elevated, eminent, ethereal, exalted, exclusive, high, high and mighty, high-and-mighty, high-faluting, high-flown, high-headed, high-nosed, high-pitched, high-reaching, high-set, high-up, highfalutin, hoity-toity, indifferent, insolent, la-di-da, lofty, lordly, monumental, mounting, outtopping, overbearing, overlooking, overtopping, overweening, patronizing, presumptuous, pretentious, prominent, proud, purse-proud, reserved, scornful, self-important, self-satisfied, smug, sneering, sniffy, snobbish, snobby, snooty, snotty, soaring, spiring, steep, stuck-up, sublime, supercilious, superior, superlative, supernal, swelled-headed, topless, toploftical, toplofty, topping, towering, towery, uplifted, uppish, uppity, upreared, upstage, vain, withering