different between orotund vs haughty

English

Etymology

From Latin ?re rotund? (“with a round mouth”) hence “clear, loud”, from ?s (“mouth”) + rotundus (“round”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?????t?nd/

Adjective

orotund (comparative more orotund, superlative most orotund)

1. Characterized by fullness, clarity, strength, and smoothness of sound.
2. Pompous; bombastic.
   • 1990, Robert Klitgaard, Tropical Gangsters: One Man's Experience with Development and Decadence in Deepest Africa

     In orotund turns of phrase—indeed, in spiraling helices of phrase; in snarled fishing lines of phrase; in endless small intestines of phrase--the speakers ingeniously explored and invented connections between qwerty, alphabetical filing, and socioeconomic advance.

Synonyms

• (fullness of sound): sonorous; see also Thesaurus:sonorous
• (pompous): pompous; see also Thesaurus:arrogant

Related terms

• oral

Translations

Anagrams

• rotundo, round to

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)

1. 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