different between scornful vs haughty

English

Etymology

scorn +? -ful

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?sk??nf?l/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sk??nf?l/
• Hyphenation: scorn?ful

Adjective

scornful (comparative more scornful, superlative most scornful)

1. Showing scorn or disrespect; contemptuous.

Translations

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