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Definition of Haughty
1. Adjective. Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy. "A more swaggering mood than usual"
Similar to: Proud
Derivative terms: Disdainfulness, Haughtiness, Imperiousness, Lordliness, Overbearingness, Superciliousness
Definition of Haughty
1. a. High; lofty; bold.
Definition of Haughty
1. Adjective. Conveying in demeanour the assumption of superiority; disdainful, supercilious. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Haughty
1. arrogant [adj -TIER, -TIEST] - See also: arrogant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Haughty
Literary usage of Haughty
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York by Daniel Defoe (1790)
"... and well kept, and very convenient for travellers : but nothing was more
awkward to me, than to fee fuch an haughty, imperious, ..."
2. La démocratie libérale by Thomas Hodgkin, Etienne Vacherot (1896)
"... The only result of their representations, however, haughty the Km- , -r?
i , • IP i • letter to was a lone: and somewhat haughty letter from Gelasius ..."
3. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"XXXI 111 could the haughty Dacre brook And yet his forward step he stayed, 53»
His brother warden's sage rebuke; And slow aud sullenly obeyed. ..."
4. The Iliad of Homer by Homer (1796)
"... cool'd: That prompts his hand to draw the deadly fword, z55 Force thro' the
Greeks, and pierce their haughty Lord} This ..."
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