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arrogant
adjective
Synonyms
- assumptive
- bumptious
- cavalier
- chesty
- haughty
- highfalutin
- hifalutin
- high-and-mighty
- high-handed
- high-hat
- huffish
- huffy
- imperious
- important
- lofty
- lordly
- masterful
- overweening
- peremptory
- pompous
- presuming
- presumptuous
- pretentious
- self-asserting
- self-assertive
- sniffy
- stiff-necked
- supercilious
- superior
- toplofty
- toploftical
- uppish
- uppity
proud, arrogant, haughty, lordly, insolent, overbearing, supercilious, disdainful mean showing scorn for inferiors.
proud may suggest an assumed superiority or loftiness.
arrogant implies a claiming for oneself of more consideration or importance than is warranted.
haughty suggests a consciousness of superior birth or position.
lordly implies pomposity or an arrogant display of power.
insolent implies contemptuous haughtiness.
overbearing suggests a tyrannical manner or an intolerable insolence.
supercilious implies a cool, patronizing haughtiness.
disdainful suggests a more active and openly scornful superciliousness.
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Word History
Middle English arrogant, arragaunt, borrowed from Middle French & Latin; Middle French, borrowed from Latin arrogant-, arrogans "insolent, overbearing, presumptuous," from present participle of arrogāre "to lay claim to, claim to possess, be conceited" — more at arrogate
15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Arrogant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/arrogant. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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