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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

acting in a disdainfully proud and arrogant manner;

e.g. The manager was a haughty individual and always thought he knew best.

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Similar Words

Arrogant

Assumptive

Bumptious

Caddish

Cavalier

Chesty

Condescending

Disdainful

Hifalutin

High-handed

High-hat

High-toned

Highfalutin

Hoity-toity

Huffy

Imperious

Important

Inequitable

Lippy

Lofty

Lordly

Masterful

Overweening

Peremptory

Pompous

Presumptuous

Pretentious

Prideful

Proud

Regimental

Self-aggrandizing

Self-asserting

Self-assertive

Self-dramatizing

Self-flattering

Sniffy

Stiff-necked

Supercilious

Superior

Than

Toplofty

Unjust

Uppity

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Opposite Words

Abject

Acquiescent

Apologetic

Base

Bashful

Compliant

Deferential

Demure

Diffident

Disarming

Endearing

Homely

Humble

Ingratiating

Insinuating

Introverted

Lowly

Meek

Menial

Modest

Mousy

Overmodest

Passive

Quiet

Reserved

Resigned

Retiring

Self-critical

Self-deprecating

Self-deprecatory

Self-doubting

Servile

Sheepish

Shy

Slavish

Subdued

Submissive

Timid

Toadyish

Unaggressive

Unarrogant

Unassertive

Unassuming

Unobtrusive

Unpretentious

Winning

Winsome

Yielding

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Related Words

Abhorrent

Affected

Arbitrary

Aristocratic

Arrogant

Assured

Audacious

Authoritarian

Authoritative

Autocratic

Biggety

Bloated

Bold

Bombastic

Bossy

Braggart

Brash

Brassy

Cavalier

Cheeky

Cocksure

Cocky

Complacent

Conceited

Condescending

Confident

Consequential

Contemptuous

Despotic

Dictatorial

Discourteous

Disdainful

Dominant

Domineering

Egocentric

Egotistical

Elitist

Extroverted

Familiar

Forward

Free

Grandiose

Hifalutin

High-handed

High-hat

High-minded

High-sounding

Highfalutin

Hubristic

Ill-bred

Ill-mannered

Imperious

Impertinent

Impolite

Important

Impudent

Inconsiderate

La-di-da

Magisterial

Mannered

Masterful

Narcissistic

Ostentatious

Overbearing

Overconfident

Overfamiliar

Overweening

Patronizing

Peremptory

Persnickety

Pompous

Pontifical

Potty

Presumptuous

Pretentious

Prideful

Proud

Ritzy

Rude

Saucy

Scornful

Self-applauding

Self-assertive

Self-assured

Self-centered

Self-flattering

Self-glorifying

Self-important

Self-satisfied

Selfish

Smug

Sniffy

Snippy

Snobbish

Snobby

Snooty

Snotty

Stuck-up

Supercilious

Sure

Thoughtless

Toffee

Toffee-nosed

Tyrannical

Tyrannous

Uncalled-for

Uncivil

Ungracious

Unhandsome

Uninhibited

Unmannered

Unmannerly

Unreserved

Uppity

Vain

Vainglorious

Willful

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