Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Scornfully and condescendingly proud. See Synonyms at proud.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- High; elevated: same as haut, 1.
- Lofty; bold; adventurous.
- Proud and disdainful; feeling superior to others; lofty and arrogant in feeling or manner; supercilious.
- Proceeding from excessive pride, or pride mingled with contempt; manifesting a sense of superiority: as, a haughty air or walk; a haughty tone.
Wiktionary
- adj. Conveying in demeanour the assumption of superiority; disdainful, supercilious.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Obs. or Archaic High; lofty; bold.
- adj. Disdainfully or contemptuously proud; arrogant; overbearing.
- adj. Indicating haughtiness.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy
Etymologies
- From earlier hauty, haultic, with spelling change in imitation of naughty and high, from Middle English hautein, hautain (with -ein, -ain becoming -y through the form hautenesse standing for *hauteinnesse; see haughtiness), from haute ("self-important"), from Old French haut, hault ("high, lofty"), from Frankish *hauh, hōh ("high, lofty, proud") and Latin altus ("high, deep"). More at high, old. (Wiktionary)
- From Middle English haut, from Old French haut, halt, alteration (influenced by Frankish hōh, high) of Latin altus, high). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Janet Bronaugh used the term haughty culturalist in a 2003 article for Phipps”
“She was trying to keep her expression haughty, Chekov suspected, but the flush of girlish anger that leapt into her cheeks when Uhura drew alongside her betrayed more than he thought she realized.”
“Cowboy boots and hats might be unusual in haughty Charlottesville or super-snobby Alexandria, but not so odd in many other parts of the state.”
“And Casey stood a-watching it in haughty grandeur there.”
“He stood before the fire, his hands behind his back, his booted feet slightly apart, his expression haughty and cold, at variance with what he was saying — or perhaps not.”
“Tathagres sat up, her expression haughty beneath tangled hair.”
“The English mean to make slaves of us," they said, in haughty indignation, and soon a plot to murder all the British was formed.”
“Then he marched tremendously back to the main door, his chin high, his expression haughty, his backbone rigid.”
“It is I, who am to be first obeyed," said he in haughty tones.”
“Sure enough, the curtains parted, and a tall, beautiful, stately creature (I quote Miss McKay's brother) swept into the room, and, approaching the wrong man, asked him in haughty tones if he were Mr. Frederick K. Stanthrope.”
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Pretentious
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Vocab list 6
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Tweets
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lilmishap Just say it. see how you automatically behave in a haughty fashion as you do.... Feb 20, 2009