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haughty 音標拼音: [h'ɔti] a. 傲慢的,驕傲的,不遜的 傲慢的,驕傲的,不遜的 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 [ synonym: { 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}.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. High; lofty; bold. [ Obs. or Archaic] [ 1913 Webster] To measure the most haughty mountain' s height. -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster] Equal unto this haughty enterprise. -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Disdainfully or contemptuously proud; arrogant; overbearing. [ 1913 Webster] A woman of a haughty and imperious nature. -- Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Indicating haughtiness; as, a haughty carriage. [ 1913 Webster] Satan, with vast and haughty strides advanced, Came towering. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 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
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