arrogant
adjAU, UK /ˈæɹəɡənt/ · UK /ˈaɹəɡənt/
Etymology From Middle English arrogaunt, from Old French arrogant, from Latin arrogāns, present active participle of arrogō.
1
Having excessive pride in oneself, often with contempt or disrespect for others.
- sound arrogant
- an arrogant assumption
4 more examples
- seem arrogant to others
- He was too arrogant to admit his mistake.
- Her arrogant attitude alienated the team.
- The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.1878, Friedrich Nietzsche, Wanting to be Loved:
- Synonyms
66 terms
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, pretentious, priggish, puffed up, sanctimonious, self-important, snobbish, snooty, snotty, stout, stuck up, supercilious, thrasonic, thrasonical, toploftical, toplofty, tumid, turgid, uppish, uppity, uppy, upstage, vain- Antonyms
- humble, modest, servile, sycophantic
- Derived terms
- agnorant, arrogantly, superarrogant, unarrogant
- Related terms
- arrogance, arrogancy, arrogantness, arrogate, arrogation, smug, bossy, cheeky
- Hypernyms
- cocksure, overconfident, proud
- Hyponyms
- sercon