supercilious
Adjective Satellite
- having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; ; ; ; ; ; ; - W.L.Shirer
- "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"
- expressive of contempt
- "curled his lip in a supercilious smile"
Adj
- Arrogantly superior; showing contemptuous indifference; haughty.
Origin / Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin superciliōsus (“haughty”).
Synonyms
disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sneering, snide, sniffy, swaggering, airy, arrogant, authoritarian, big-headed, biggity, blustery, boastful, bombastic, buggish, cocky, conceited, domineering, egotistical, entitled, flatulent, flaunting, full of oneself, grandiose, hankty, haught, haut, high and mighty, high-handed, high-hat, highfalutin, hoity-toity, holier-than-thou, inflated, insolent, la-di-da, ostentatious, 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
Scrabble Score: 16
supercilious: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordsupercilious: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
supercilious: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary