haughty

English

Etymology

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From earlier hauty, haultic, with spelling change in imitation of English naughty and English high, from Middle English hautein, hautain (with -ein, -ain becoming -y through the form hautenesse standing for *hauteinnesse; see haughtiness), from Middle English haute (“self-important”), from Old French haut, hault (“high, lofty”), from Frankish *hauh, *hōh (“high, lofty, proud”) and Latin altus (“high, deep”). More at high, old.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɔːti/
• IPA^(key): /ˈhɑti/
• Rhymes: -ɔːti
• Homophone: hottie (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

Adjective

haughty (comparative haughtier, superlative haughtiest)

1. Conveying in demeanour the assumption of superiority; disdainful, supercilious.
   • 1922, Michael Arlen, “3/1/1”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days‎^[1]:

     How meek and shrunken did that haughty Tarmac become as it slunk by the wide circle of asphalt of the yellow sort, that was loosely strewn before the great iron gates of Lady Hall as a forerunner of the consideration that awaited the guests of Rupert, Earl of Kare, […] .

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:arrogant

Translations

disdainful, supercilious; in demeanour conveying the assumption of superiority

• Arabic: (indefinite) مُتَعَالٍ (mutaʕālin), (definite) الْمُتَعَالِي (al-mutaʕālī), متكبر, متغطرس
• Armenian: գոռոզություն (hy) (goṙozutʻyun)
• Bulgarian: надменен (bg) (nadmenen), високомерен (bg) (visokomeren), горделив (bg) (gordeliv)
• Catalan: superb (ca), orgullós (ca), arrogant (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 傲慢 (zh) (àomàn), 高傲 (zh) (gāo'ào), 驕傲／骄傲 (zh) (jiāo'ào), 骄傲 (zh) (jiāo'ào)

• Czech: pyšný (cs) m, povýšený m
• Dutch: hooghartig (nl), hoogmoedig (nl)
• Egyptian: (qꜣ sꜣ)
• Finnish: mahtaileva, ylimielinen (fi), koppava, kopea (fi)
• French: hautain (fr), suffisant (fr)
• Galician: soberbio m, arrogante (gl), altivo, orgulloso (gl), atufado
• German: hochmütig (de), stolz (de), überheblich (de), arrogant (de), hochnäsig (de), eingebildet (de), hochfahrend (de)
• Greek: υπεροπτικός (el) (yperoptikós), αλαζών m or f (alazón), αλαζόνας (el) m (alazónas), αλαζονικός (el) (alazonikós)

  Ancient: γαῦρος (gaûros)

• Hebrew: יָהִיר (he) m (yahír), שַׁחְצָן (he) m (shaẖtzán)
• Hungarian: dölyfös (hu), gőgös (hu), fennhéjázó (hu), fölényes (hu), nagyképű (hu), beképzelt (hu)
• Irish: airdiúil, anuaibhreach, arduallach, ceannard, foruallach, iarlaitheach, móiréiseach, mórtasach, teidealach, toirtéiseach
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• Italian: superbo (it), orgoglioso (it), altero (it), altezzoso (it), arrogante (it), albagioso m
• Japanese: 高慢な (ja) (こうまんな, kōman na), 傲慢 (ja) (ごうまんな, gōman na), 横柄な (ja) (おうへいな, ōhei na), 尊大な (ja) (そんだいな, sondai na)
• Latin: superbus (la) m
• Latvian: iedomīgs, uzpūtīgs
• Maori: whakakake
• Norman: hautain
• Persian: برمنش (barmaneš)
• Polish: wyniosły (pl) m
• Portuguese: soberbo (pt), vanglorioso, imodesto (pt), altivo (pt)
• Romanian: mândru (ro)
• Russian: высокоме́рный (ru) (vysokomérnyj), презри́тельный (ru) (prezrítelʹnyj), надме́нный (ru) (nadménnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: àrdanach
• Serbo-Croatian: надмен, nadmen (sh)
• Spanish: soberbio (es), altanero (es) m
• Swedish: högfärdig (sv), högdragen (sv), högmodig (sv), överlägsen (sv)
• Westrobothnian: , , ,

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “haughty”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.