Origin: 1500-1600 haught haughty (15-19 centuries), from French haut high
Thesaurus
THESAURUS thinking that you are more important, skillful, etc. than you really are►proud
thinking that you are more important, skillful, etc. than you really are: He was a proud man who refused to admit his mistakes.
►arrogant
behaving in a rude or too confident way because you think you are more important, interesting, or intelligent than other people: He was too arrogant to listen to any of our ideas.
►egotistical
formal believing that you are more important, interesting, or intelligent than other people and that you do not need to think or care about them: She’s so egotistical, she thinks she can do the job by herself.
►conceited
too proud of yourself, especially of what you can do or of the way you look: He’s so conceited! He thinks every girl likes him.
►vain
too proud, especially of the way you look: Eva was too vain to wear glasses.
►smug
quietly proud of yourself in a way that annoys other people: From her smug smile, I could tell that she had found the right answer before me.
►haughty
formal behaving in a very proud and unfriendly way and believing that you are more important or better than other people: His wife was a haughty woman, who expected everyone to obey her wishes.
►snobbish
thinking that you are better than other people because you are from a higher social class: Her snobbish parents didn’t like her boyfriend because he didn’t go to college.
►pompous
behaving in a proud and serious way, and using long and formal words to sound important: She found him pompous and annoying.
proud and unfriendlySYN stuck-up: a haughty laugh► see thesaurus at proud—haughtily adverb—haughtiness noun [uncountable]