arrogant
Adjective Satellite
- having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride
- "an arrogant official"
- "arrogant claims"
Adj
- Having excessive pride in oneself, often with contempt or disrespect for others.
Adjective
- Having an exaggerated sense of one's own importance or abilities.
Examples
- It was arrogant to play a seven-letter word without checking if it was valid.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English arrogaunt, from Old French arrogant, from Latin arrogāns, present active participle of arrogō.
Synonyms
chesty, self-important, airy, arrogant, authoritarian, big-headed, biggity, blustery, boastful, bombastic, buggish, cocky, conceited, condescending, disdainful, domineering, egotistical, entitled, flatulent, flaunting, full of oneself, grandiose, hankty, haught, haughty, haut, high and mighty, high-handed, high-hat, highfalutin, hoity-toity, holier-than-thou, imperious, inflated, insolent, la-di-da, narcissistic, ostentatious, overbearing, overweening, pompous, presumptuous, pretentious, priggish, proud, puffed up, sanctimonious, snobbish, snooty, snotty, stout, stuck up, supercilious, thrasonic, thrasonical, toploftical, toplofty, tumid, turgid, uppish, uppity, uppy, upstage, vain
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 9
arrogant: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordarrogant: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
arrogant: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary