ARROGANT DEFINITIONS - 12 definitions found
arrogant adj 1: having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride; "an arrogant official"; "arrogant claims"; "chesty as a peacock" [syn: arrogant, chesty, self-important] arrogant tarragon Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) arrogant adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Latin arrogant-, arrogans, present participle of arrogare Date: 14th century 1. exaggerating or disposed to exaggerate one's own worth or importance often by an overbearing manner <an arrogant official> 2. proceeding from or characterized by arrogance <an arrogant reply> Synonyms: see proud • arrogantly adverb Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary arrogant Someone who is arrogant behaves in a proud, unpleasant way towards other people because they believe that they are more important than others. He was so arrogant... That sounds arrogant, doesn't it? ADJ [disapproval] • arrogance At times the arrogance of those in power is quite blatant. N-UNCOUNT English Explanatory Dictionary arrogant ˈærəuɡənt adj. (of a person, attitude, etc.) aggressively assertive or presumptuous; overbearing. øøarrogance n. arrogantly adv. [ME f. OF (as ARROGATE, -ANT)] English-Old English dictionary arrogant Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Arrogant \Ar"ro*gant\, a. [F. arrogant, L. arrogans, p. pr. of arrogare. See Arrogate.] 1. Making, or having the disposition to make, exorbitant claims of rank or estimation; giving one's self an undue degree of importance; assuming; haughty; -- applied to persons. Arrogant Winchester, that haughty prelate. --Shak. 2. Containing arrogance; marked with arrogance; proceeding from undue claims or self-importance; -- applied to things; as, arrogant pretensions or behavior. Syn: Magisterial; lordly; proud; assuming; overbearing; presumptuous; haughty. See Magisterial. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms arrogant a. Haughty, proud, supercilious, lordly, disdainful, contumelious, insolent, cavalier, overbearing, overweening, assuming, magisterial, dogmatic, imperious, important, swelling, blustering, big, high, lofty, self-conceited, self-sufficient, self-assuming, self-important, self-asserting, self-confident, egotistic, self-assured, uppish. English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) arrogant ˈærəuɡənt adj. 1 presumptuous, assuming, self-assertive, conceited, egotistical, pompous, superior, brazen, bumptious, cavalier: It would be most arrogant of me to take for myself the glory that rightfully belongs to the whole team. 2 haughty, overbearing, imperious, high-handed, overweening, disdainful, contemptuous, scornful, snobbish, supercilious, lofty, swaggering , Brit toffee-nosed; Colloq uppity, on one's high horse, high and mighty, snotty: Since her husband was made a company director, she's become unbearably arrogant. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 145 Moby Thesaurus words for "arrogant": absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, affected, arbitrary, aristocratic, artificial, assuming, assured, audacious, authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic, big, bloated, boastful, bold, bossy, brash, brassy, brazen, bumptious, cavalier, challenging, cheeky, clannish, cliquish, cocksure, cocky, cold, conceited, condescending, confident, contemptuous, contumelious, convinced, cool, daring, decided, defiant, defying, derisive, despotic, determined, dictatorial, disdainful, disregardful, domineering, egotistical, exclusive, familiar, feudal, forward, greatly daring, grinding, haughty, high and mighty, high-and-mighty, high-faluting, high-flown, high-handed, high-headed, high-nosed, highfalutin, hoity-toity, hubristic, imperative, imperial, imperious, impertinent, important, impudent, insolent, insulting, lofty, lordly, magisterial, magistral, mannered, masterful, monocratic, obtrusive, oppressive, overbearing, overconfident, overpresumptuous, overruling, oversure, overweening, patronizing, peremptory, persuaded, pert, poised, pompous, pontifical, positive, presuming, presumptuous, procacious, proud, puffy, purse-proud, pushy, reassured, regardless of consequences, repressive, saucy, scornful, secure, self-assertive, self-assured, self-confident, self-important, self-reliant, severe, showy, sneering, sniffy, snobbish, snobby, snooty, snotty, strict, stuck-up, stuffy, supercilious, superior, suppressive, sure, swaggering, toploftical, toplofty, tyrannical, tyrannous, unafraid, undoubting, unfaltering, unhesitating, unwavering, uppish, uppity, upstage, vain, withering |
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