'Haughty' definitions:
Definition of 'haughty'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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]
Definition of 'Haughty'
From: GCIDE
- Haughty \Haugh"ty\ (h[add]"t[y^]), a. [Compar. Haughtier (h[add]"t[i^]*[~e]r); superl. Haughtiest.] [OE. hautein, F. hautain, fr. haut high, OF. also halt, fr. L. altus. See Altitude.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. High; lofty; bold. [Obs. or Archaic] [1913 Webster]
- To measure the most haughty mountain's height. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- Equal unto this haughty enterprise. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Disdainfully or contemptuously proud; arrogant; overbearing. [1913 Webster]
- A woman of a haughty and imperious nature. --Clarendon. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Indicating haughtiness; as, a haughty carriage. [1913 Webster]
- Satan, with vast and haughty strides advanced, Came towering. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'haughty'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- 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