Arrogant

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Having or displaying a sense of overbearing self-worth or self-importance.
  • adj. Marked by or arising from a feeling or assumption of one's superiority toward others: an arrogant contempt for the weak. See Synonyms at proud.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Having excessive pride in oneself, often with contempt for others.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. 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.
  • adj. Containing arrogance; marked with arrogance; proceeding from undue claims or self-importance; -- applied to things.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Making or having the disposition to make unwarrantable claims of rank or estimation; giving one's self an undue degree of importance; aggressively haughty; full of assumption: applied to persons.
  • Characterized by arrogance; proceeding from an overestimate of one's importance or superiority to others: applied to things: as, arrogant claims.
  • Synonyms Authoritative, Magisterial, Dogmatic, etc. (see magisterial), proud, assuming, overbearing, presumptuous, supercilious, lordly, cavalier, important, swelling, blustering, grand, disdainful, overweening.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride
  • Equivalent
    proud   
    Antonym
    agreeable    affable    humble    submissive    bashful    abject    condescending    obsequious    modest   
    Cross Reference
    self-important    impudent    haughty    rough   
    Form
    arrogantly   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    overbearing    assuming    haughty    lordly    magisterial    presumptuous    proud    assumptive    fastuous    high-minded   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    haughty    insolent    selfish    stupid    stubborn    confident    imperious    cynical    greedy    ignorant