Hypertext Webster Gateway: "haughty"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
haughty
adj : 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";
"shaggy supercilious camels"; "a more swaggering mood
than usual"- W.L.Shirer [syn: {disdainful}, {lordly}, {prideful},
{sniffy}, {supercilious}, {swaggering}]
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