Synonyms for hoity-toity
- adjective
- noun
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Highfalutin — affected or pretentious, sometimes with the implication of displaying an air of excessive fanciness or…
highfalutin, pretentious, self-important, uppity, pompous, supercilious, haughty, arrogant, grandiose, upstage, la de da, highfaluting, hifalutin, snooty informal, snobbish, disdainful, presumptuous, bombastic, overweening, overbearing, domineering, vain
Other
Noun
1. Silliness — flighty, giddy, or silly behaviour; also, noisy merriment
2. Airs and graces — behaviour adopted to demonstrate one's superiority; pretentious or snobbish behaviour; airs and graces
Definitions
- adj. 1
Affected or pretentious, sometimes with the implication of displaying an air of excessive fanciness or ostentation; pompous, self-important, snobbish; often displaying a feeling of patronizing self-aggrandizing or arrogant class superiority.
- n. 1
Behaviour adopted to demonstrate one's superiority; pretentious or snobbish behaviour; airs and graces.
- n. 2
Flighty, giddy, or silly behaviour; also, noisy merriment.
Related words
- Other spellings
- hity-tity hoity toity hoitytoity hooty tooty hooty-tooty
Forms
- Plural
- hoity-toities → sillinesses, frolics, giddinesses, rompings…
Example sentences
- pretentious I now have the ability to be a pretentious prick.
- uppity I think of them as feisty rather than uppity.
By length
- 4 letters
- vain1, airs1
- 5 letters
- dicty
- 6 letters
- frolic2, uppity3, snooty2
- 7 letters
- pompous2, haughty2, upstage2, romping2
- 8 letters
- arrogant3, snobbish2
- 9 letters
- grandiose3, silliness3, bombastic3, giddiness, hifalutin, huffiness
- 10 letters
- disdainful3
- 11 letters
- pretentious3, overbearing4, domineering4, overweening, highfalutin4, flightiness
- 12 letters
- presumptuous4, supercilious5, highfaluting
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (frolic2 = 2 syllables).