haughty
Adjective Satellite
- having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; ; ; ; ; ; ; - W.L.Shirer
- "haughty aristocrats"
Adj
- Conveying in demeanour the assumption of superiority; disdainful, supercilious.
Adjective
- Arrogantly superior and disdainful.
Examples
- His opponent’s HAUGHTY expression vanished when she realized her challenge was invalid.
Origin / Etymology
From earlier hauty, haultic, with spelling change in imitation of English naughty and English high, from Middle English hautein, hautain (with -ein, -ain becoming -y through the form hautenesse standing for *hauteinnesse; see haughtiness), from Middle English haute (“self-important”), from Old French haut, hault (“high, lofty”), from Frankish *hauh, *hōh (“high, lofty, proud”) and Latin altus (“high, deep”).
Synonyms
disdainful, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering, airy, arrogant, authoritarian, big-headed, biggity, blustery, boastful, bombastic, buggish, cocky, conceited, domineering, egotistical, entitled, flatulent, flaunting, full of oneself, grandiose, hankty, haught, haughty, haut, high and mighty, high-handed, high-hat, highfalutin, hoity-toity, holier-than-thou, inflated, insolent, la-di-da, ostentatious, overweening, pompous, presumptuous, pretentious, priggish, puffed up, sanctimonious, self-important, snobbish, snooty, snotty, stout, stuck up, thrasonic, thrasonical, toploftical, toplofty, tumid, turgid, uppish, uppity, uppy, upstage, vain
Scrabble Score: 17
haughty: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordhaughty: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
haughty: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary