Imperious vs Hauteur - What's the difference?
imperious | hauteur |
Domineering, arrogant, or overbearing.
* 1866 – , translated by C. J. Hogarth
Urgent.
* 1891 –
(obsolete) Imperial or regal.
* 1895 –
haughtiness or arrogance; loftiness
* 1960 , chapter XII
* 1992, , Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 31
As an adjective imperious
is domineering, arrogant, or overbearing.As a noun hauteur is
haughtiness or arrogance; loftiness.imperious
English
Adjective
(-)- ...she glanced about her in an imperious , challenging sort of way, with looks and gestures that clearly were unstudied.
- Circumstances of an imperious nature, which it is unnecessary to relate here, had prevented him from taking service with that gallant army which had fought the disastrous campaigns ending with the fall of Corinth.
- She was quick, beautiful, imperious , while he was quiet, slow, and misty.
Synonyms
* (domineering) authoritarian, bossy, dictatorial, domineering, overbearinghauteur
English
Noun
(-)- “What's happened, young Herring?” I think for a moment he was about to draw himself up with hauteur and say he would prefer, if we didn't mind, not to discuss his private affairs, but when he was half-way up he caught Aunt Dahlia's eye and returned to position one.
- [...] as, indeed, a new subject presented itself now, "Here's our turn!" braking the Toyota and turning the wheel sharply without having had time to signal so, close behind them, an angered motorist sounded his horn, but The Senator took no heed: not out of arrogance or hauteur but, simply, because he took no heed.