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- Dictionaryhaughty/ˈhɔːti/
adjective
- 1. arrogantly superior and disdainful: "a look of haughty disdain"
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Haughty means blatantly and disdainfully proud, showing scorn for inferiors. Learn the synonyms, examples, etymology, and history of this word from the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
Haughty means unfriendly and seeming to consider yourself better than other people. Learn more about the meaning, synonyms, and usage of haughty with examples from the Cambridge Dictionary.
Haughty means unfriendly and seeming to consider yourself better than other people. Learn more about this adjective, its synonyms, and how to use it in sentences from the Cambridge Dictionary.
Haughty definition: disdainfully proud; scornfully arrogant; snobbish; supercilious. See examples of HAUGHTY used in a sentence.
Someone who is haughty is arrogant and full of pride. When you're haughty, you have a big attitude and act like you're better than other people. A haughty person acts superior and looks down on others. Haughty people are disdainful, overbearing, prideful, swaggering, and obnoxious.
adjective. /ˈhɔːti/ (comparative haughtier, superlative haughtiest) behaving in an unfriendly way towards other people because you think that you are better than them synonym arrogant. a haughty face/look/manner. He replied with haughty disdain. She threw him a look of haughty disdain. Oxford Collocations Dictionary. Word Origin.
Haughty means high in one's own estimation, lofty and disdainful in feeling or demeanour, or of exalted character, style, or rank. Learn the origin, pronunciation and usage of this adjective with quotations and historical thesaurus.
