What is the difference between haughty and loft?
haughty | loft |
Conveying in demeanour the assumption of superiority; disdainful, supercilious.
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(obsolete, except in derivatives) air, the air; the sky, the heavens.
An attic or similar space (often used for storage) in the roof of a house or other building.
(textiles) The thickness of a soft object when not under pressure.
A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.
(obsolete) A floor or room placed above another.
* Bible, Acts xx. 9
To propel high into the air.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=September 28
, author=Tom Rostance
, title=Arsenal 2 - 1 Olympiakos
, work=BBC Sport
(bowling) To throw the ball erroneously through the air instead of releasing it on the lane's surface.
As adjectives the difference between haughty and loft
is that haughty is conveying in demeanour the assumption of superiority; disdainful, supercilious while loft is (obsolete|rare) lofty; proud; haughty.As a noun loft is
(obsolete|except in derivatives) air, the air; the sky, the heavens.As a verb loft is
to propel high into the air.haughty
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Possibly due to the similar sounding (and utterly different in meaning) hottie'', ''haughty has become rare in some parts of North America.References
*loft
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Noun
(en noun)- an organ loft
- Eutychus fell down from the third loft .
Verb
(en verb)citation, page= , passage=Marouane Chamakh then spurned a great chance to kill the game off when he ran onto Andrey Arshavin's lofted through ball but shanked his shot horribly across the face of goal.}}
