Snobbish

3 definitions found

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

  Snobbish \Snob"bish\, a.
     Of or pertaining to a snob; characteristic of, or befitting,
     a snob; vulgarly pretentious. -- {Snob"bish*ly}, adv.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  snobbish
       adj : befitting or characteristic of those who inclined to social
             exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people
             considered inferior [syn: {clannish}, {cliquish}, {clubby},
              {snobby}]

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

  72 Moby Thesaurus words for "snobbish":
     affected, aloof, arrogant, clannish, cliquish, complacent,
     conceited, condescending, contemptuous, contumelious, disdainful,
     egotistical, elect, ethnocentric, exceptional, excluding,
     exclusive, exclusory, haughty, high and mighty, high-flown,
     high-hat, highfalutin, hoity-toity, inadmissible, insecure,
     insular, lofty, lordly, narrow, parochial, patronizing, pompous,
     potty, preclusive, prescriptive, pretentious, preventive, priggish,
     prohibitive, putting on airs, remote, restrictive, ritzy, scornful,
     seclusive, segregative, select, selective, self-important,
     self-satisfied, separative, smug, sneering, sniffy, snippy, snobby,
     snooty, snotty, stuck-up, supercilious, superior, toploftical,
     toplofty, uncertain, unconfident, unsure, uppish, uppity, vain,
     withering, xenophobic