Arrogance

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Arrogance \Ar"ro*gance\, n. [F., fr. L. arrogantia, fr.
     arrogans. See {Arrogant}.]
     The act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an
     overbearing manner; that species of pride which consists in
     exorbitant claims of rank, dignity, estimation, or power, or
     which exalts the worth or importance of the person to an


     undue degree; proud contempt of others; lordliness;
     haughtiness; self-assumption; presumption.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           I hate not you for her proud arrogance.  --Shak.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Syn: Haughtiness; hauteur; assumption; lordliness;
          presumption; pride; disdain; insolence; conceit;
          conceitedness. See {Haughtiness}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  arrogance
       n : overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward
           inferiors [syn: {haughtiness}, {hauteur}, {highhandedness},
            {lordliness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  112 Moby Thesaurus words for "arrogance":
     airs, assurance, assuredness, audacity, belief, bluster,
     boastfulness, bold front, boldness, brash bearing, brashness,
     brassiness, bravado, brazenness, bumptiousness, certitude,
     cheekiness, clannishness, cliquishness, cockiness, cocksureness,
     conceit, confidence, confidentness, contempt, contemptuousness,
     contumely, conviction, courage, daring, daringness, defial,
     defiance, defying, derision, despite, disdain, disdainfulness,
     disparagement, disregard, effrontery, egotism, exclusiveness, face,
     faith, gall, hardihood, haughtiness, hauteur, hubris, impertinence,
     impudence, independence, insolence, insult, loftiness, morgue,
     nerve, obtrusiveness, overconfidence, oversureness, overweening,
     overweeningness, pardonable pride, pertness, poise, pomposity,
     pompousness, positiveness, presumption, presumptuousness,
     pretension, pretentiousness, pride, pridefulness, procacity,
     proudness, purse-pride, pushiness, ridicule, sauciness, scorn,
     scornfulness, security, self-assertion, self-assurance,
     self-confidence, self-consequence, self-esteem, self-importance,
     self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, settled belief,
     side, sniffiness, snobbery, snobbishness, snootiness, snottiness,
     sovereign contempt, stiff-necked pride, stiff-neckedness,
     subjective certainty, superciliousness, sureness, surety,
     toploftiness, trust, uppishness, uppityness, vanity