Synonyms of hauteur

hauteur

noun

hȯ-ˈtər 

as in arrogance

an exaggerated sense of one's importance that shows itself in the making of excessive or unjustified claims

she looked at him with the hauteur of someone who is accustomed to being instantly obeyed

Synonyms & Similar Words

• arrogance
• superiority
• imperiousness
• disdain
• haughtiness
• attitude
• superciliousness
• pretence
• lordliness
• loftiness
• pretension
• pomposity
• peremptoriness
• pompousness
• masterfulness
• presumptuousness
• pretense
• self-importance
• huffiness
• high horse
• assumption
• pretentiousness
• pridefulness
• consequence
• vanity
• bumptiousness
• dominance
• condescension
• toploftiness
• pride
• self-consequence
• bossiness
• high-handedness
• snobbishness
• snobbery
• snootiness
• scorn
• snobbism
• authoritativeness
• smugness
• bravado
• boastfulness
• sauciness
• swagger
• impudence
• self-assertion
• triumphalism
• inflation
• cheekiness
• bowwow
• vainglory
• chest-thumping
• impertinence
• cockiness
• egoism
• self-complacency
• brag
• egotism
• self-conceit
• bombast
• self-satisfaction
• braggadocio
• strut
• self-opinion
• side
• self-content
• self-centeredness
• cheek
• self-contentment
• complacence
• vaingloriousness
• conceit
• swelled head
• superiority complex
• self-assumption
• self-partiality

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• humility
• modesty
• unpretentiousness
• bashfulness
• shyness
• demureness
• diffidence
• timidity
• passivity
• submissiveness
• meekness
• self-doubt
• passiveness
• lowliness
• unassumingness
• timidness
• quietness
• reserve
• self-distrust
• retiringness
• reservedness
• mousiness

Examples Sentences

Recent Examples of hauteur

Their insularity, inexperience, and Soviet-style hauteur have produced an unprofessional and incompetent style of rule that has ultimately threatened their own power. —Rajan Menon, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2011

As young Charlotte, the actress balances the confidence and hauteur of a headstrong young woman with the quiet yearning of a child who has been forced to grow up too fast. —Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 28 Apr. 2023

Maxine pingpongs from humiliation to humiliation while aping their hauteur and sunnily rejecting their rejection. —Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2024

The Chameleon is cool to look at (a diminutive lizard in finery worthy of the Met Gala), and Viola Davis voices her with a dour aristocratic hauteur, but all the character does, really, is to call forth her guards and summon up past villains that Po has defeated. —Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 Mar. 2024