different between haughty vs outscorn
haughty
English
Etymology
From earlier hauty, haultic, with spelling change in imitation of English naughty and English high, from Middle English hautein, hautain (with -ein, -ain becoming -y through the form hautenesse standing for *hauteinnesse; see haughtiness), from Middle English haute (“self-important”), from Old French haut, hault (“high, lofty”), from Frankish *hauh, *h?h (“high, lofty, proud”) and Latin altus (“high, deep”). More at high, old.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /?h??ti/
- (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /?h?ti/
- Rhymes: -??ti
- Homophone: hottie (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
Adjective
haughty (comparative haughtier, superlative haughtiest)
- Conveying in demeanour the assumption of superiority; disdainful, supercilious.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:arrogant
Derived terms
- haughtily
- haughtiness
Related terms
- haught, haut, haute, hawt
Translations
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “haughty”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
haughty From the web:
- what haughty mean
- what's haughty eyes
- what haughty in tagalog
- haughty what does it mean
- haughty what do it mean
- haughty what is the word
- haughty what part of speech
- what does haughty mean in the bible
outscorn
English
Etymology
out- +? scorn
Verb
outscorn (third-person singular simple present outscorns, present participle outscorning, simple past and past participle outscorned)
- (transitive) To overcome or overwhelm by haughty disregard; defy; scorn or despise.
Anagrams
- contours, cornutos, countors, croutons, croûtons
outscorn From the web:
Share
Tweet
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share
you may also like
- haughty vs outscorn
- overcome vs outscorn
- outscored vs outscore
- forcing vs forcling
- ungraceful vs ungracefully
- terms vs ingrately
- terms vs trivialism
- chancellory vs chancellery
- building vs chancellery
- chancellor vs chancellery
- office vs chancellery
- rank vs chancellery
- chancery vs chancellery
- chaunceller vs chaunceler
- chaunceller vs chancellor
- softly vs hushedly
- quietly vs hushedly
- hushed vs hushedly
- flushingly vs blushingly
- blush vs blushingly