About The Word Haughty
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Haughty
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What's The Definition Of Haughty?
[adj] 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"; "shaggy supercilious camels"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer
Synonyms | Synonyms for Haughty: disdainful | lordly | prideful | proud | sniffy | supercilious | swaggering Related Terms | Find terms related to Haughty: 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 | highfalutin | high-faluting | high-flown | high-headed | high-nosed | high-pitched | high-reaching | high-set | high-up | hoity-toity | indifferent | insolent | la-di-da | lofty | lordly | monumental | mounting | Olympian | 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 See Also | Haughty In Webster's Dictionary \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.
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