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- Dictionaryhaughty/ˈhɔːti/
adjective
- 1. arrogantly superior and disdainful: "a look of haughty disdain"
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The word haughty communicates a kind of pride that is obviously full of contempt for others deemed inferior or unworthy. The word is not applied only to people. Haughty often modifies nouns like glare, look, appearance, and attitude.
HAUGHTY definition: 1. unfriendly and seeming to consider yourself better than other people: 2. unfriendly and seeming…. Learn more.
HAUGHTY meaning: 1. unfriendly and seeming to consider yourself better than other people: 2. unfriendly and seeming…. Learn more.
You use haughty to describe someone's behaviour or appearance when you disapprove of the fact that they seem to be very proud and to think that they are better than other people. [ disapproval ] He spoke in a haughty tone.
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.
haughty - 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 ...
Haughty Definition. Scornfully and condescendingly proud. Having or showing great pride in oneself and disdain, contempt, or scorn for others; proud; arrogant; supercilious. Lofty; noble. Conveying in demeanour the assumption of superiority; disdainful, supercilious.
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.
showing that you think you are much better or more important than other people: a haughty young actress.
