Arrogant

3 definitions found

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

  Arrogant \Ar"ro*gant\, a. [F. arrogant, L. arrogans, p. pr. of
     arrogare. See {Arrogate}.]
     1. Making, or having the disposition to make, exorbitant
        claims of rank or estimation; giving one's self an undue
        degree of importance; assuming; haughty; -- applied to
        persons.


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              Arrogant Winchester, that haughty prelate. --Shak.
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     2. Containing arrogance; marked with arrogance; proceeding
        from undue claims or self-importance; -- applied to
        things; as, arrogant pretensions or behavior.
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     Syn: Magisterial; lordly; proud; assuming; overbearing;
          presumptuous; haughty. See {Magisterial}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  arrogant
       adj : having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of
             overbearing pride; "an arrogant official"; "arrogant
             claims"; "chesty as a peacock" [syn: {chesty}, {self-important}]

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

  145 Moby Thesaurus words for "arrogant":
     absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, affected, arbitrary,
     aristocratic, artificial, assuming, assured, audacious,
     authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic, big, bloated, boastful,
     bold, bossy, brash, brassy, brazen, bumptious, cavalier,
     challenging, cheeky, clannish, cliquish, cocksure, cocky, cold,
     conceited, condescending, confident, contemptuous, contumelious,
     convinced, cool, daring, decided, defiant, defying, derisive,
     despotic, determined, dictatorial, disdainful, disregardful,
     domineering, egotistical, exclusive, familiar, feudal, forward,
     greatly daring, grinding, haughty, high and mighty,
     high-and-mighty, high-faluting, high-flown, high-handed,
     high-headed, high-nosed, highfalutin, hoity-toity, hubristic,
     imperative, imperial, imperious, impertinent, important, impudent,
     insolent, insulting, lofty, lordly, magisterial, magistral,
     mannered, masterful, monocratic, obtrusive, oppressive,
     overbearing, overconfident, overpresumptuous, overruling, oversure,
     overweening, patronizing, peremptory, persuaded, pert, poised,
     pompous, pontifical, positive, presuming, presumptuous, procacious,
     proud, puffy, purse-proud, pushy, reassured,
     regardless of consequences, repressive, saucy, scornful, secure,
     self-assertive, self-assured, self-confident, self-important,
     self-reliant, severe, showy, sneering, sniffy, snobbish, snobby,
     snooty, snotty, strict, stuck-up, stuffy, supercilious, superior,
     suppressive, sure, swaggering, toploftical, toplofty, tyrannical,
     tyrannous, unafraid, undoubting, unfaltering, unhesitating,
     unwavering, uppish, uppity, upstage, vain, withering