About The Word Haughty
Learn about the word Haughty to help solve your crossword puzzle. Discover Haughty definitions and meaning, origins, synonyms, related terms and more at the free Crossword Dictionary.
Haughty
| Haughty Definition And Meaning |
|---|
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.
|
More Crossword Puzzle Words
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Cross Word Of The Day
- Virginia mallow ‐ tall handsome perennial herb of southeastern United States having…
- Sinecure ‐ an office that involves minimal duties [n] a benefice to which…
- Ground bait ‐ bait scattered on the water to…
- Ketoacidosis-resistant diabetes ‐ mild form of diabetes mellitus that develops gradually in adults;…
- Boolean logic ‐ a system of symbolic logic devised by George Boole; used in…
- Repine ‐ express…
- Chinese angelica ‐ similar to American angelica tree but less…
- Outlawry ‐ illegality as a consequence of unlawful acts; defiance of the…
- Flammable ‐ possible to burn
- Genus mastodon ‐ extinct type genus of the Mammutidae:…