Haughty

Definition: Haughty

Haughty

Adjective

1. 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 with a supercilious air"; "shaggy supercilious camels"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "haughty" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Haughty \Haugh"ty\, adjective. [Comparative Haughtier; superlative Haughtiest.]. (references)

Synonyms: Haughty

Contempt

Adjective: contemptuous; disdainful, scornful; withering, contumelious, supercilious, cynical, haughty, bumptious, cavalier; derisive.

Insolence

Adjective: insolent, haughty, arrogant, imperious, magisterial, dictatorial, arbitrary; high-handed, high and mighty; contumelious, supercilious, overbearing, intolerant, domineering, overweening, high-flown.

Pride

Haughty lofty, high, mighty, swollen, puffed up, flushed, blown; vainglorious; purse-proud, fine; proud as Lucifer; bloated with pride.

Severity

Adjective: severe; strict, hard, harsh, dour, rigid, stiff, stern, rigorous, uncompromising, exacting, exigent, exigeant, inexorable, inflexible, obdurate, austere, hard-headed, hard-nosed, hard-shell, relentless, Spartan, Draconian, stringent, strait-laced, searching, unsparing, iron-handed, peremptory, absolute, positive, arbitrary, imperative; coercive; tyrannical, extortionate, grinding, withering, oppressive, inquisitorial; inclement; (ruthless) a; cruel; (malevolent); haughty, arrogant; precisian.

Crosswords: Haughty

You see her standing there, so haughty, so confident (Dune; writing credit: John Harrison)

So, my haughty ladyI'm not good enough for you, eh (On Again Off Again; writing credit: Nat Perrin; Benny Rubin)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Break Their Haughty Power: Joe Murphy in the Heyday of the Wobblies (reference)

• Haughty Conquerors': Amherst and the Great Indian Uprising of 1763 (reference)

• Haughty Spirit (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

It was the turn of the conventionist to be haughty, and of the bishop to be humble

I know a discontented gentleman Whose humble means match not his haughty spirit

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "haughty": in a haughty manner. Additional references.

Beginning with "haughty": haughty-looking.

Albanian

mendjemadh (arrogant, conceited, proud-spirited, self-conceited, stuck up, vain, vainglorious), kryelartë (arrogant, cavalier, cocksy, cocky, conceited, consequential, high, lofty, lordly, proud, proud-stomached, stuck up, supercilious, toplofty), arrogant (arrogant, cavalier, imperious, jackanapes, lordly, pushful, pushing). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مغرور (allured, arrogant, cocky, conceited, dazzled, deceived, deluded, fooled, lured, misled, overweening, popinjay, proud, self-conceited, self-important, snobbish, vain, vainglorious), ‏متكبر (arrogant, conceited, insolent, lofty, lordly, proud, snooty, supercilious, swank, swelling, upstage), ‏متغطرس (arrogant, conceited, imperious, insolent, lofty, lordly, overbearing, overpeopled, overproud, overweening, presuming, presumptuous, proud, pushy, snooty, supercilious), ‏متعجرف (arrogant, cavalier, conceited, imperious, lordly, overbearing, overproud, overweening, presuming, presumptuous, puffed up, puffy, stuffy, supercilious, swelling), ‏متجبر (arrogant). (various references)

Basque

harro (proud). (various references)

Bulgarian 

горделив (prideful, proud, proud-spirited), надут (bombastic, conceited, consequential, coxcombical, declamatory, florid, grandiloquent, high-blown, highfaluting, important, inflated, magniloquent, mandarin, mouthy, orotund, overblown, pompous, portentous, prancing, puffy, sidy, solemn, sounding, stilted, swelling, swollen, theatrical, tumid, uppish, uppity), надменен (airy, aloof, arrogant, assuming, assumptive, contemptuous, cool, disdainful, high, high and mighty, imperious, lofty, offhand, offish, overbearing, overweening, prideful, proud, proud-stomached, remote, scornful, stand offish, stiff, stuck up, sublime, supercilious, superior, top-lofty, uppish). (various references)

Chinese 

傲慢 (arrogant). (various references)

Czech

povznesený (elated), povýšený (condescending, exalted, superciliary, supercilious, uppish), nadutý (arrogant, bumptious, conceited, overbearing, proud, puffed up, windy), domýšlivý (arrogant, assuming, conceited, high and mighty, perky, pretentious, small beer, smug, snotty, uppish, upstage, vain). (various references)

Dutch

hoogmoedig, hooghartig, hautain (arrogant), verwaten (arrogant), verwaand (arrogant), laatdunkend (arrogant), arrogant (arrogant), aanmatigend (arrogant). (various references)

Farsi 

مغرور (Bigheaded, Jaunty, Overbearing, Presumptuous, Proud, Snob, Snobbish, Stuffy, Supercilious, Swagger, Uppish, Vain), متکبر (Arrogant, High, Imperious, Perky, Proud), والا (Grand, Otherwise, Prominent, Sublime), باددرسر. (various references)

Finnish

ylpeä (high and mighty, proud, stuck-up), korskea, koppava (high and mighty), kopea (arrogant, overbearing). (various references)

French

arrogant. (various references)

Frisian

bazich (arrogant, authoritative), astrant (arrogant). (various references)

German

hochmütig (arrogant, arrogantly, cavalier, haughtily, loftily, lofty, lordly, prideful, proud, superciliary, superciliously, uppish, uppity), stolz (boast, elation, fancy, glory, haughtily, haughtiness, impressive, loftily, lofty, majestic, pride, prideful, princely, proud, proudly, proudness). (various references)

Greek 

υπεροπτικόσ (supercilious), ακατάδεχτοσ (stand offish), αγέρωχοσ (arrogant, cocky, imperious, magisterial, overbearing), αλαζών (arrogant, presumer, saucy, stuck up, uppish), αλαζονικόσ (arrogant, conceited, presumptuous). (various references)

Hebrew 

מ� ופח (exaggerated, inflated, snotty, swollen, vain, windy), י�"יר (arrogant, conceited, high and mighty, overweening, pompous, popinjay, presumptuous, snob, snooty, snotty, supercilious, swollen), שחוץ (arrogant), שחצן (arrogant, boastful, conceited, overbearing, popinjay, presumptuous, smart aleck, snob, snooty, whippersnapper), זחוח (arrogant, insolent), �'אותן (arrogant, boastful, proud), �'אות� י (boastful, conceited), �'א�" (arrogance, boastful, boastfulness, conceit, conceited, haughtiness, overbearing, pride, proud), �'�"לן (arrogant), �'ב�" אף, �'ס רוח (boor, caddish, roughneck, rude, vulgar), � טוי �'רון (supercilious). (various references)

Hungarian

fennhéjázó (bumptious, cavalier, consequential, domineering, high-blown, lofty, overweening), dölyfös (assuming, high and mighty, imperious, prideful, supercilious), gőgös (arrogant, contemptuous, flown with pride, high and mighty, lofty, overweening, self-important, stuck-up, supercilious, to blow up with pride). (various references)

Indonesian

sombong (assertive, bigheaded, boastful, egotistic, plume, proud, uppish, vain, vainglorious), ngambok (arrogant). (various references)

Italian

superbo (arrogant, cavalier, magnificent, marvellous, proud, superb, uppish), sufficiente (adequate, ample, comfortable, enough, fair, plenty, satisfactory, sufficient), orgoglioso (arrogantly, haughtily, lofty, proud, supercilious), fiero (bold, cruel, fierce, proud, severe), arrogante (arrogant, assumptive, brash, overbearing, overweening), altezzoso (arrogant, cavalier, high, snooty, supercilious, upstage). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

高慢 (arrogant, proud). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おたかい, ずおも (heavy-headed), ほ�"らしい (arrogant, magnificent, proud, splendid), �"うぜ�"たる (proud), �"うぜ�" (arrogant, haughtiness, pride, proud, roaring), �"うま�"ふそ�" (arrogant, overbearing), �"うま�" (arrogant, proud). (various references)

Korean 

거만한 (insolent, Proud, snooty, supercilious). (various references)

Manx

stroineeishagh (vain, vainglorious), sonaasagh (ambitious), ard-wannalagh (arrogant person, stubborn, stuck up, superior). (various references)

Norwegian

hovmodig (arrogant), overlegen. (various references)

Occitan

orgulhós (proud). (various references)

Pig Latin

aughtyhay.(various references)

Portuguese

orgulhoso (arrogant, boastful, flatulent, grand, proud, proud-spirited, snooty, stuck-up, supercilious, uppish), arrogante (arrogant, assuming, big, cockish, flatulent, huffish, imperious, lord-like, overbearing, perk, proud, proud-spirited, self-assertive, self-confident, self-pride, self-sufficient, snippy, stuck-up, supercilious, uppish, upstage), altivo (arrogant, lofty, perky, proud, proud-spirited, self-assertive, sniffy, snooty, stand-off, stand-offish, stuck-up, supercilious, uppish). (various references)

Romanian

trufaş (flaunty, haughtily, loftily, lofty, proud-spirited, stately, supercilious), semeţ (arrogant, brave, bravely, conceited, daring, daringly, haughtily, hoity toity, lofty, lordly, temerarious), plin de demnitate, mândru (big, cavalier, cock-a-hoop, conceited, erect, handsome, high, high minded, high pitched, high-flown, loftily, lofty, proud, splendid, stately, wonderful), demn (dignified, matronly, orotund, respectable, stately, worthily), boieros (arrogant, fastidious, high handed), arogant (arrogant, arrogantly, assuming, assumptive, haughtily, high and mighty, lordly, overbearing, overbearingly, overweening, perky, pretentious, supercilious), aroga (arogant, arrogate), înfumurat (arrogant, bumptious, jackanapes, opinioned, overweening, self sufficient, stuck up, uppish, vain), înţepat (stuck up, sulky, sullen, supercilious). (various references)

Russian 

надменный (aloof, arrogant, bloated aristocrat, bumptious, cavalier, high and mighty, hoity toity, lofty, proud, proud-spirited, proud-stomached, puff up, puffed up, snippy, stand-offish, supercilious, toplofty, toploty, upstage, wrapped in cellophane). (various references)

Scottish

uaibhreach (vainglorious), pròiseil. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ohol (arrogant, disdainful, haughtly, hoity toity, huffy, magisterial, overbearing, overblown, proud, snippy, snooty, stuck up, supercilious), nadmen (disdainful, domineering, high-blown, high-flown), nabusit (blunt, haughtly, surly). (various references)

Spanish

arrogante (arrogant, assuming, cavalier, imperious, lordly, overweening, prideful, supercilious), altivo (arrogantly, haughtily, lordly, overbearing, overweening, supercilious). (various references)

Swedish

högdragen (high, high minded, imperious, lofty, lordly, overbearing, standoffish, supercilious, supercillious). (various references)

Thai

ซึ่งทระนง. (various references)

Turkish

tepeden bakan (high and mighty, high hat, holier-than-thou, self-righteous, snooty, supercilious), mağrur (arrogant, conceited, disdainful, lofty, overweening, proud, snooty, supercilious, uppish, uppity, vainglorious), kurumlu (high and mighty, pontifical, sooty), kibirli (arrogant, as proud as lucifer, assuming, bumptious, cavalier, conceited, consequential, disdainful, high-flown, hoity toity, holier-than-thou, hubristic, important, lofty, lordly, overweening, pontifical, proud, Sniffy, snooty, stiff necked, stuck up, stuffy, supercilious, superior, uppish, uppity, upstage, vain), kendini beğenmiş (arrogant, assuming, bighead, bigheaded, bumptious, cavalier, chesty, cocky, conceited, egotistical, high hat, high-flown, high-flying, hoity toity, hoity-toity, holier-than-thou, important, insufferable, jackanapes, jumped-up, mugwump, overweening, pompous, pretentious, prig, priggish, self sufficient, self-important, self-opinionated, self-righteous, smug, Sniffy, snooty, snotty, stuck up, stuffed shirt, stuffy, supercilious, swelled head, swollen-headed, taffy-nosed, toffee-nosed, toffy-nosed, uppish, uppity, upstage, vain). (various references)

Turkmen 

tekepbir (arrogant). (various references)

Ukrainian

чванливиий, бундючний (bombastic, cavalier, chilly, cockish, flatulent, highfalutin, highfaluting, high-hearted, mouth-filling, overly, pompous, puffed up, scenic, scenical, snobbish, snobby, swollen), пихатий (arrogant, assuming, bloated, cavalier, cockish, conceited, foppish, highfalutin, highfaluting, high-flown, high-hearted, hoity toity, inflated, magniloquent, mouthy, overweening, portentous, puffed up, ritzy, self-important, side, solemn, vain). (various references)

Vietnamese 

ngạo mạn (assumptive, cellophane, hubris, lordly, perky), kiêu kỳ (lofty, snooty, supercilious), kiêu căng (assuming, hand, high, high-minded, high-toned, pretentious, proud, proud-hearted, proudly, proud-spirited, pround-stomached). (various references)

Welsh

trahaus (arrogant), penuchel (proud), ffroenuchel (disdainful). (various references)

arrogans, celsus, insolescat, superba, superbae, superbarum, superbe, superbi, superbiam, superbias, superbiat, superbis, superbit, superbo, superborum, superbos, superbum, superbus, superciliosus. (various references)

haut. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings

"Haughty" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aughey, haughly, haughnty, Haught, haughtly, haugty, Hauteyn, hauthty, hauty, Huatay. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: aught, ghaut, haugh, thuya.

-3 letters: ghat, hath, haut, thug, yuga.

-4 letters: gat, gay, gut, guy, hag, hah, hat, hay, hug, huh, hut, tag, tau, thy, tug, ugh, uta, yah.

-5 letters: ag, ah, at, ay, ha, ta, uh, ut, ya.

+2 letters: haughtily.

+3 letters: thoughtway, throughway.

+4 letters: thoughtways, throughways.

+5 letters: phytophagous.