adj
Meaning 1
Of or from the upper class of society.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, derogatory
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
lah-di-dah
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˌlɑːdiːˈdɑː/
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rhymes with -ɑː
adj
Meaning 2
Affecting upper-class or superior airs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, derogatory
Examples
- She was all la-di-da, with her nose in the air, and we were all struggling not to laugh because that would be gauche.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pretentious, snooty, airy, arrogant, chesty, authoritarian, biggity, big-headed, blustery, boastful, lordly, bombastic, buggish, cocky, conceited, disdainful, domineering, egotistical, entitled, flatulent, flaunting, full of oneself, glorious, grandiose, hankty, haught, haughty, haut, high-handed, high-hat, high and mighty, highfalutin, hoity-toity, holier-than-thou, hubristic, hubristical, imperious, inflated, insolent, la-di-da, orgulous, ostentatious, overbearing, overweening, pompous, presumptuous, priggish, puffed up, sanctimonious, self-important, snobbish, snotty, stout, stuck up, supercilious, thrasonic, thrasonical, toploftical, toplofty, tumid, turgid, uppish, uppity, uppy, upstage, vain
Antonyms: none provided
intj
Meaning 3
Expression of disdain for pretension or haughtiness.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory, mildly
Examples
- Well, lah-di-dah, mister Park Avenue manicure.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
intj
Meaning 4
Not a care in the world. (used in a sing-song voice, for childhood rhymes)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
c. 1880s, with a comeback in the 1980s due to its use in Annie Hall (1977) by Woody Allen, although in a different context, spoken by the actress Diane Keaton.
Across languages
Translations
5 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Dutch: chic de friemel — having pretension or haughtiness
- French: prout-prout — having pretension or haughtiness
- Hungarian: affektáló — having pretension or haughtiness
- Hungarian: finomkodó — having pretension or haughtiness
- Hungarian: modoros — having pretension or haughtiness