Thesaurus:arrogant

Thesaurus

arrogant

English

Adjective

Sense: having an exaggerated sense of prestige, importance, skill, aptitude, etc.

Synonyms

• airy
• arrogant
• authoritarian
• biggity
• big-headed (slang)
• blustery
• boastful    [⇒ thesaurus]
• bombastic
• buggish (obsolete or dialect)
• cocky
• conceited
• disdainful    [⇒ thesaurus]
• domineering
• egotistical
• entitled
• flatulent    [⇒ thesaurus] (obsolete)
• flaunting
• full of oneself
• grandiose
• hankty
• haught (obsolete)
• haughty
• haut (obsolete)
• high-handed
• high-hat (colloquial)
• high and mighty
• highfalutin (colloquial)
• hoity-toity (colloquial)
• holier-than-thou
• imperious
• inflated
• insolent
• la-di-da
• ostentatious
• overbearing
• overweening
• pompous
• presumptuous
• pretentious    [⇒ thesaurus]
• priggish
• puffed up
• sanctimonious
• self-important
• snobbish (slang)
• snooty (slang)
• snotty (slang)
• stout
• stuck up (slang)
• supercilious
• thrasonic
• thrasonical
• toploftical
• toplofty
• tumid
• turgid
• uppish
• uppity
• uppy
• upstage
• vain    [⇒ thesaurus]

Antonyms

• humble    [⇒ thesaurus]
• modest
• servile    [⇒ thesaurus]
• sycophantic    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

• disdainful    [⇒ thesaurus]
• sercon (fandom slang)

Hypernyms

• cocksure
• overconfident
• proud

Various

• smug
• vain    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

• Thesaurus:arrogance
• Thesaurus:bossy
• Thesaurus:cheeky

Further reading

• “880. vanity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “885. insolence” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “878. pride” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “739. severity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “arrogant” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.