- 1傲慢的、高傲的（帶著瞧不起人；不是單純的「驕傲」）
If you call someone haughty, you mean they act proud in a cold, way — as if other people sit below them. A haughty look, a haughty smile, a haughty voice: the person is not just pleased with themselves; they are shutting you out. Though actually proud and haughty are not the same. Proud can be kind (proud of your child, proud of good work). Haughty is never kind; it is a complaint. The word is a little formal and . In easy talk people more often say stuck-up, snobby, or “she looks down on people.” You still meet haughty in novels, news, and careful essays. It describes people, faces, and manners, not things like a building.
組成From earlier hauty / hautein; the spelling later changed in imitation of naughty and high. From Middle English haute (“self-important”), from Old French haut, hault (“high, lofty”), from Frankish *hauh / *hōh (“high, proud”) and Latin altus (“high”).
同家族的字
- haughtinessthe noun: that proud, unfriendly quality
- hauteursame French haut “high”; hauteur names the cold manner itself
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
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haughtyadj/ˈhɔːti/
- 1
Conveying in demeanour the assumption of superiority; disdainful, supercilious.
- How meek and shrunken did that haughty Tarmac become as it slunk by the wide circle of asphalt of the yellow sort, that was loosely strewn before the great iron gates of Lady Hall as a forerunner of the consideration that awaited the guests of Rupert, Earl of Kare, […].
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