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Definition: Haughtiness |
HaughtinessNoun1. Overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "haughtiness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
Note: Haughtiness \Haugh"ti*ness\, noun. [For hauteinness. See Haughty.]. (references) |
Synonyms: HaughtinessSynonyms: arrogance (n), highhandedness (n), lordliness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Insolence | Noun: insolence; haughtiness; Adjective: arrogance, airs; overbearance; domineering; Verb: tyranny. |
Pride | Pride; haughtiness; Adjective: high notions, hauteur; vainglory, crest; arrogance; (assumption). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Haughtiness |
| English words defined with "haughtiness": Contemptuousness ♦ Hauteur ♦ Imperiousnes ♦ Pride of the desert ♦ To magnify one's self. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "haughtiness": Fastuous. (references) |
| "Haughtiness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Haughtiness" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "haughtiness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | mendjemadhësi (arrogance, conceit, hauteur, presumption), arrogancë (arrogance, hubris). (various references) | |
Arabic | غطرسة (arrogance, assumption, insolence, lordliness, perkiness, pride, strut, superciliousness), عجرفة (arrogance, insolence, lordliness, smugness, snobbery, snootiness). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | горделивост (pride), надутост (airiness, bombast, flatulence, flatulency, fustian, grandiloquence, inflation, magniloquence, pomposity, self-importance, theatricality, uppishness), надменност (arrogance, assumption, disdain, distance, hauteur, pride, stiffness, swelled head, uppishness). (various references) | |
Chinese | 傲氣 (air of arrogance). (various references) | |
Czech | povýšenost, nadutost (arrogance, inflation, pride), domýšlivost (arrogance, cockiness, conceit, self-importance, uppishness). (various references) | |
Finnish | ylpeys (pride), ylimielisyys (arrogance, presumptuousness), pöyhkeys (arrogance, conceit), kopeus (arrogance), kopeilu (arrogance). (various references) | |
French | hauteur, morgue, fierté (hauteur), arrogance. (various references) | |
German | hochmut (arrogance, hauteur, pride), Stolz (boast, elation, fancy, glory, haughtily, haughty, impressive, loftily, lofty, majestic, pride, prideful, princely, proud, proudly, proudness). (various references) | |
Greek | έπαρση (arrogance, conceit, overweening, overweeningness, pride, self-conceit), αγερωτό, αλαζονεία (arrogance, conceit, presumption, pride, uppishness, uppity). (various references) | |
Hebrew | "תרברבות (boasting, conceit, vanity), 'סות רוח (vulgarity), 'ב"ות (height, tallness), '"לות (arrogance, dignity, greatness), 'א" (arrogance, boastful, boastfulness, conceit, conceited, haughty, overbearing, pride, proud), 'או" (boastfulness, conceit, majesty, pride), ר"ב (arrogance, boastfulness, conceit), "רמת ראש (arrogance), י"ירות (arrogance, conceit, pride, swagger, vainness), "ת'"לות (boasting, grandiosity), זחות (arrogance), עתק (arrogance, pride, wantonness), שחצ ות (arrogance, boastfulness, conceitedness, vanity), שחץ (arrogance, pride), י"ר" (arrogance, pride), 'אות ות (boastfulness, conceit, disdain, pride, vanity). (various references) | |
Hungarian | fennhéjázás (arrogance, hauteur, high stomach, perkiness, proud stomach). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kesombongan (arrogance, conceit, vanity), keanggunan (affectation, elegance). (various references) | |
Italian | alterigia (arrogance, hauteur, hubris). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 気位 (pride), 横柄 (arrogance, insolence), 権高 (pride), ひど過ぎる (too cruel, too much), 尊大 (pomposity, self-sufficiency), 傲慢 (arrogance, hubris, insolence, pride), 傲岸 (pride). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おうへい (arrogance, insolence), きぐらい (pride), そ" い (pomposity, self-sufficiency, you), ひばり , "うが" (arrogant, haughty, pride, proud, roaring), "うま" (arrogance, arrogant, conceited, hubris, insolence, pride, proud), け" か (pride). (various references) | |
Manx | sturd (angry look, pride), stroineeishid, sonaase (ambition), mooaralys (ambition, arrogance, boastfulness, dignity, ostentation, pomp, vanity), mooaralaght (presumptuousness, vanity), kione-ardys (arrogance, exaltation, presumption, presumptuousness, pride, superciliousness), ard-wannalys (arrogance), ard-oaie. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aughtinesshay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | orgulho (bounce, lordliness, morgue, pride, self-conceit, vainglory), insolncia (impertinence), arrogncia, altivez (altitude, aplomb, arrogance, lordliness, pragmatism, pride). (various references) | |
Romanian | trufie (conceit, pride, superciliousness, vainglory), semeţie (daring), mândrie (boast, elation, pride, vaingloriousness), fudulie (arrogance, bumptiousness, swagger), fandosealã (affectation, bumptiousness, ceremony, finicalness, flirtation, fuss, jazz, to-do), falã (arrogance, celebrity, glory, pride), dispreţ (contempt, despite, disdain, disregard, flout, odium, scorn, spurn), aroganţã (arrogance, assumption, assurance, pride, rashness, side), îngâmfare (conceit, false pride, perkiness, presumption, pride, self-conceit, superciliousness, vainglory, vanity). (various references) | |
Russian | высокомерие (arrogance, hauteur, hubris, lifemanship, self-assumption), надменность (arrogance, hauteur, morgue). (various references) | |
Scottish | pròis (pride), rdan (anger, eminence, height, hill, pride). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | oholost (arrogance, disdain, hauteur, hubris, morgue, snoot, superciliousness, swelled head), nabusitost (bluntness). (various references) | |
Spanish | tensión de algo (pull, tightness), orgullo (loftiness, pride), elación (elation, generosity), arrogancia (arrogance, arrogancy, lordliness, pride, superciliousness), altivez, altanería (arrogance, hauteur, loftiness). (various references) | |
Swedish | höghet (highness, sublimity), högfärd (conceit, pride, vainglory), arrogans (arrogance). (various references) | |
Thai | ความทระนง. (various references) | |
Turkish | kurum (airs, conceit, corporation, establishment, foundation, institute, institution, pose, shop, smut, soot, swagger, vanity), kibirlilik (arrogance, hoity toity, lordliness, pride, stuffiness), kibir (arrogance, conceit, disdain, hauteur, hubris, importance, loftiness, pride, snootiness, vainness, vanity), gurur (elation, hauteur, lordliness, pride, vainness, vanity). (various references) | |
Turkmen | tekepbirlik (arrogance). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | зарозумілість (arrogance, egotism, loftiness, lordliness, outrecuidance, self esteem, self-conceit, self-importance), пихатість (assuming, assumption, bombast, insolence, insolency, magniloquence, prance, uppity). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thái độ ngạo mạn (hauteur), thái độ kiêu kỳ (hauteur), thái độ kiêu căng (hauteur), tính ngạo mạn (huffiness, lordliness), tính kiêu kỳ (loftiness, snootiness, superciliousness), tính kiêu căng (arrogance, high-mindedness, huffiness, pretentiousness, toploftiness). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | arrogantia, arrogantiam, exaltatio, exaltatione, exaltationes, fastidium, fastosus, fastus, flatus, superbia, superbiae, superbiam, superbias, superbiis, supercilium, supersilium. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Isaiah Chapter 2, Verse 11 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Oi gar ofqalmoi kuriou uyhloi o de anqrwpoV tapeinoV kai tapeinwqhsetai to uyoV twn anqrwpwn kai uywqhsetai kurioV monoV en th hmera ekeinh |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Oculi sublimis hominis humiliati sunt et incurvabitur altitudo virorum exaltabitur autem Dominus solus in die illa |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | The eyen of the heye man ben meekid, and ther shal ben inwardly crookid the heiyte of stronge men; forsothe the Lord alone shal ben enhauncid in that dai. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be abased, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | The high looks of man will be put to shame, and the pride of men will be made low, and only the Lord will be lifted up in that day. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Isaiah Chapter 2, Verse 11 |
| Cebuano | Ang mapahitas-ong panan-aw sa tawo igapaubos, ug ang kagarbo sa katawohan igapaubos, ug si Jehova lamang maoy igatuboy niadtong adlawa. |
| Croatian | Ohol pogled bit æe skršen i bahatost ljudska ponižena. Jahve æe se uzvisiti, on jedini - u dan onaj. |
| Danish | Sine stolte Øjne skal Mennesket slå ned, Mændenes Hovmod skal bøjes, og HERREN alene være høj på hin Dag. |
| Dutch | De hoge ogen de mensen zullen vernederd worden, en de hoogheid der mannen zal nedergebogen worden; en de HEERE alleen zal in dien dag verheven zijn. |
| Finnish | Ihmisten ylpeät silmät painuvat maahan, miesten korskeus masentuu, ja sinä päivänä Herra yksinänsä on korkea. |
| French | L`homme au regard hautain sera abaissé, Et l`orgueilleux sera humilié: L`Éternel seul sera élevé ce jour-l . |
| German | Denn alle hohen Augen werden erniedrigt werden, und die hohe Männer sind, werden sich bücken müssen; der HERR aber wird allein hoch sein zu der Zeit. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Orang sombong akan direndahkan dan orang angkuh ditundukkan. Hanya TUHAN sendiri yang diagungkan. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Segala mata orang yang tinggi itu akan direndahkan dan segala sombong orang laki-laki akan ditundukkan, maka pada hari itu hanya Tuhan jua akan tertinggi. |
| Italian | L'uomo abbasser gli occhi orgogliosi, l'alterigia umana si piegher ; sar esaltato il Signore, lui solo in quel giorno. |
| Maori | Ka whakaititia nga kanohi whakapehapeha o te tangata, ka whakapikoa iho ano hoki te whakakae o nga tangata, a ko Ihowa anake e whakanuia i taua ra. |
| Norwegian | Menneskets stolte øine blir ydmyket, og mennenes stolthet blir bøiet, og Herren alene er høi på den dag. |
| Rumanian | Omul va trebui sq-wi plece kn jos privirea semeayq wi kngkmfarea lui va fi smeritq: numai Domnul va fi knqlyat kn ziua aceea. |
| Russian | рПОЙЛОХФ ЗПТ"ЩЕ ЧЪЗМС"Щ ЮЕМПЧЕЛБ, Й ЧЩУПЛПЕ МА"УЛПЕ ХОЙЪЙФУС; Й П"ЙО зПУ П"Ш 'Х"ЕФ ЧЩУПЛ Ч ФПФ "ЕОШ. |
| Swedish | Ty människornas högmodiga ögon skola bliva ödmjukade, och männens övermod skall bliva nedböjt, och HERREN allena skall vara hög på den dagen. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "haughtiness": haughtinesses. (additional references) | |
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"Haughtiness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: haugtiness. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "haughtiness" (pronounced 'Haugh"ti*ness'): Abjectedness, Abjectness, Ableness, Abominableness, Abortiveness, Abruptness, Absentness, Absoluteness, Absorptiveness, Abstemiousness, Abstersiveness, Abstractedness, Abstractiveness, Abstractness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Abusiveness, Acceptableness, Accessariness, Accessoriness, Accidentalness, Accommodableness, Accommodateness, Accurateness, Accustomedness, Acidness, Acquaintedness, Acquisitiveness, Acrimoniousness, Activeness, Actualness, Acuteness, Adaptedness, Adaptiveness, Adaptness, Addictedness, Addle-patedness, Adeptness, Adequateness, Adhesiveness, Admirableness, Adorableness, Adroitness, Adultness, Advantageousness, Adventurousness, Adverseness, Advisable-ness, Advisedness, Affableness. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-h-h-i-n-s-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: sheathings. | |
-2 letters: anguishes, insheaths, sheathing. | |
-3 letters: anthesis, eastings, gahnites, giantess, gushiest, hiatuses, highness, hustings, insheath, sauteing, seatings, shanties, shantihs, sheitans, shushing, sinuates, stashing, stengahs, sthenias, unitages, unsights. | |
-4 letters: ageists, anguish, ashiest, augites, aunties, easting, eatings, eighths, entasis, gahnite, gashest, geishas, gnashes, guineas, gunites, hashing, hastens, hasting, hausens, heating, heights, hessian, highest, hushing, ingates, ingesta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-h-h-i-n-s-s-t-u" | |
+2 letters: haughtinesses. | |
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