HAUGHTY (haughtier, haughtiest)

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Irregular inflected forms: haughtier    , haughtiest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does haughty mean? 

• HAUGHTY (adjective)
  The adjective HAUGHTY has 1 sense:

1. having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy

  Familiarity information: HAUGHTY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAUGHTY (adjective)

Comparative: haughtier   
Superlative: haughtiest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy

Synonyms:

disdainful; haughty; imperious; lordly; overbearing; prideful; sniffy; supercilious; swaggering

Context example:

a more swaggering mood than usual

Similar:

proud (feeling self-respect or pleasure in something by which you measure your self-worth; or being a reason for pride)

Derivation:

haughtiness (overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors)

 Context examples 

"What a haughty, uninteresting creature that oldest Miss March is!" was the unfortunately audible remark of one of the ladies, as the door closed upon their guests.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She had been all animation with the game, and irritated pride did not lower the expression of her haughty lineaments.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

You, injured by his haughty temper!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He expressed no regret for what he had done which satisfied her; his style was not penitent, but haughty.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

He is usually respectful to the attendant and at times servile; but to-night, the man tells me, he was quite haughty.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

And straightway that coarse, swollen woman became a queen—the grandest, haughtiest queen that you could dream of—and she turned upon us with such words of fire, such lightning eyes and sweeping of her white hand, that she held us spellbound in our chairs.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A great king of a land far away in the East had a daughter who was very beautiful, but so proud, and haughty, and conceited, that none of the princes who came to ask her in marriage was good enough for her, and she only made sport of them.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I trembled with excess of agitation as I said this; there was a frenzy in my manner, and something, I doubt not, of that haughty fierceness which the martyrs of old are said to have possessed.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

But perseverance in humility of conduct and messages, in self-condemnation for Robert's offence, and gratitude for the unkindness she was treated with, procured her in time the haughty notice which overcame her by its graciousness, and led soon afterwards, by rapid degrees, to the highest state of affection and influence.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

"Indeed, mama, but you can—and will," pronounced the haughty voice of Blanche, as she turned round on the piano-stool; where till now she had sat silent, apparently examining sundry sheets of music.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)