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haugh⋅ty

  [haw-tee]
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–adjective, -ti⋅er, -ti⋅est.
1. disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant; supercilious: haughty aristocrats; a haughty salesclerk.
2. Archaic. lofty or noble; exalted.
Origin:
1520–30; obs. haught (sp. var. of late ME haute < MF < L altus high, with h- < Gmc; cf. OHG hok high) + -y 1

Related forms:
haugh⋅ti⋅ly, adverb
haugh⋅ti⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
1. lordly, disdainful, contemptuous. See proud.

Antonyms:
1. humble, unpretentious, unassuming.
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haugh·ty   (hô'tē)   
adj.   haugh·ti·er, haugh·ti·est
Scornfully and condescendingly proud. See Synonyms at proud.

[From Middle English haut, from Old French haut, halt, alteration (influenced by Frankish hōh, high) of Latin altus, high; see al-2 in Indo-European roots.]
haugh'ti·ly adv., haugh'ti·ness n.
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Haughty

Haugh"ty\, a. [Compar. Haughtier; superl. Haughtiest.] [OE. hautein, F. hautain, fr. haut high, OF. also halt, fr. L. altus. See Altitude.]

1. High; lofty; bold. [Obs. or Archaic]

To measure the most haughty mountain's height. --Spenser.

Equal unto this haughty enterprise. --Spenser

2. Disdainfully or contemptuously proud; arrogant; overbearing.

A woman of a haughty and imperious nature. --Clarendon.

3. Indicating haughtiness; as, a haughty carriage.

Satan, with vast and haughty strides advanced, Came towering. --Milton.
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Language Translation for : haughty
Spanish: altanero, arrogante, engreído,
German: hochmütig,
Japanese: 高慢な
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haughty 
1530 (spelling changed on model of caught, etc.), from M.E. haute "high in one's own estimation" (1430), with adj. suffix, from O.Fr. haut "high," from L. altus, with initial h- by infl. of Frank. hoh.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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