Haughty

haughty
    adj 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"; "a more swaggering mood
           than usual"- W.L.Shirer [syn: {disdainful}, {haughty},
           {imperious}, {lordly}, {overbearing}, {prideful},
           {sniffy}, {supercilious}, {swaggering}]
    

Haughty \Haugh"ty\ (h[add]"t[y^]), a. [Compar. {Haughtier}
   (h[add]"t[i^]*[~e]r); superl. {Haughtiest}.] [OE. hautein, F.
   hautain, fr. haut high, OF. also halt, fr. L. altus. See
   {Altitude}.]
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   1. High; lofty; bold. [Obs. or Archaic]
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            To measure the most haughty mountain's height.
                                                  --Spenser.
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            Equal unto this haughty enterprise.   --Spenser.
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   2. Disdainfully or contemptuously proud; arrogant;
      overbearing.
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            A woman of a haughty and imperious nature.
                                                  --Clarendon.
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   3. Indicating haughtiness; as, a haughty carriage.
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            Satan, with vast and haughty strides advanced,
            Came towering.                        --Milton.
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98 Moby Thesaurus words for "haughty":
      Olympian, aerial, airy, aloof, altitudinous, arrogant, ascending,
      aspiring, belittling, big, boastful, cavalier, clannish, cliquish,
      colossal, complacent, conceited, condescending, contemptuous,
      contumelious, derisive, detached, disdainful, distant, dominating,
      domineering, egotistic, egotistical, elevated, eminent, ethereal,
      exalted, exclusive, high, high and mighty, high-and-mighty,
      high-faluting, high-flown, high-headed, high-nosed, high-pitched,
      high-reaching, high-set, high-up, highfalutin, hoity-toity,
      indifferent, insolent, la-di-da, lofty, lordly, monumental,
      mounting, outtopping, overbearing, overlooking, overtopping,
      overweening, patronizing, presumptuous, pretentious, prominent,
      proud, purse-proud, reserved, scornful, self-important,
      self-satisfied, smug, sneering, sniffy, snobbish, snobby, snooty,
      snotty, soaring, spiring, steep, stuck-up, sublime, supercilious,
      superior, superlative, supernal, swelled-headed, topless,
      toploftical, toplofty, topping, towering, towery, uplifted, uppish,
      uppity, upreared, upstage, vain, withering