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haughty

Letters that make haughty

a, g, h, t, u, y are letters that make 'haughty'

Words within haughty

AU, aught, HA, Au, Aug are words within 'haughty'

haughty is a 7 letter word starting with h
haughty is a 7 letter word ending with y

1 possible definitions for 'haughty'

Haughty as "having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy"

Under this definition, haughty is an adjective and has the following properties:

Synonyms

prideful, overbearing, lordly, disdainful, swaggering, imperious, sniffy, supercilious have the same meaning as 'haughty'

Derivatives of haughty

arrogance, haughtiness, hauteur, high-handedness, condescension, superciliousness, disdainfulness, imperiousness, domineeringness, overbearingness, lordliness are derivatives of 'haughty'.

Similar to haughty

proud is similar to haughty.

Example of haughty used within this context

"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