haughty
14
8.1
- adjective
- /ˈhɔːti/
:
altivo
- The haughty aristocrat looked down on everyone at the party.
How how the first half is so good it has an unpleasantly haughty fedora guy tone.
- How how the first half is so good it has an unpleasantly haughty fedora guy tone.
- It was the humiliation that I had dismissed all the criticism from a very haughty perch.
- It is the haughty vessel who is active on behalf of state power.
Examples
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"Passengers are not allowed in the kitchen!" he said in a haughty voice.
Fiction book (1998) -
And they can seem a little bit haughty or condescending.
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Oh, proud and haughty, are we?
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Does it not bother you how haughty they are?
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None wished to submit themselves to the haughty scrutiny of the Great Man.
Academic text (2007) -
Is Mr. Fogg always so proper, haughty and formal?
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The two men started talking disparagingly, in loud, haughty voices, about the painting.
Fiction book (1996) -
The secretary who entered the room was beautiful and haughty, as befitted God's handmaiden.
Fiction book (1990) -
At the moment, she had a headache, having spent the evening at a gathering of haughty, evangelical socialites.
Fiction book (2001) -
Boyle sneered indignantly, like a haughty Herod from an old biblical epic.
Fiction book (1998)
Synonyms
260
4.5
Behaving as if you are more important or better than other people
65
7.4
Acting as if you are better than other people
57
5.8
Acting more important and formal than necessary
30
5.8
Being proud and trying to control other people
24
5.4
Thinking you are much better than other people
20
8.2
Acting as if you are better than other people
16
7.4
Acting as if you are better than other people
16
6.3
A person who thinks they are better than other people and looks down on them
8
6.1
Feeling or acting as if you are better than other people
8
8.4
Acting like you are better than others and expecting them to obey you
8
7.0
Showing that you think someone or something is not worth respect
7
5.3
Acting like you are better than other people because of their money or clothes
5
9.9
Someone who acts proud and shows they feel better than others
4
6.8
Thinking you are much better or more important than others
4
8.9
Acting as if you are better than other people
1
8.5
Acting as if you are better than other people
1
9.9
Too confident and rude in a way that annoys other people
1
8.0
Acting very proud and treating others as unimportant
1
9.9
Very fancy in a way that shows you think you are better than others
Acting like you are better than other people
Showing off and acting more important than others
Acting too proud and boastful
Antonyms
How Arrogant
Surface Forms
Morphology
haughty = haught + y
The element 'haught' is not a productive or recognizable modern English base, so learners cannot reliably derive the adjective's meaning from its parts despite the historical connection to 'high'.
Etymology
Haughty comes from an old French root haut, which means 'high', and is like the English words high and height. So a haughty person acts as if they are 'above' or better than others, which explains the word's meaning of proud, superior behaviour.