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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
arrogant \ar"rogant\, 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.
1913 webster
arrogant winchester, that haughty prelate. --shak.
1913 webster
2. containing arrogance; marked with arrogance; proceeding
from undue claims or self-importance; -- applied to
things; as, arrogant pretensions or behavior.
1913 webster
syn: magisterial; lordly; proud; assuming; overbearing;
presumptuous; haughty. see magisterial.
1913 webster
see also:
arrogate magisterial
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
arrogant
adj : having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of
overbearing pride; "an arrogant official"; "arrogant
claims"; "chesty as a peacock" syn: chesty, self-important
see also:
chesty self-important
- [3] : 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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