haughty

Speech parts

1. haughty - Adjective

3. haughty - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

High; lofty; bold.

Disdainfully or contemptuously proud; arrogant; overbearing.

Indicating haughtiness; as, a haughty carriage.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

overbearing imperious prideful disdainful lordly supercilious swaggering sniffy pontifical cavalier superior constitutive vaulting scornful entitled
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Antonyms

meek prudential down-to-earth mathematical modest retiring
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Phrases with the word

in a haughty manner

Derivatives

haughtier haughtiest

Examples

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death. Edith Wharton

Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty. Jefferson Davis

General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation. Chief Joseph

Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. Egyptian Proverb

A Haughty person will not even reach down to take his own nose if it had fallen to the ground. Bulgarian Proverb

The haughty broad bean flowers and climbs but produces little fruit. Sicilian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

haughtiness haughtly Haughton Haugland Hauke Hauksbee thermometer