arrogant

Speech parts

1. arrogant - Adjective

2. arrogant - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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.

Containing arrogance; marked with arrogance; proceeding from undue claims or self-importance; -- applied to things; as, arrogant pretensions or behavior.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

proud overbearing haughty presumptuous self-important lordly chesty pontifical cavalier superior scornful entitled arbitrary assuming vain
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Antonyms

clement craven meek down-to-earth sissy beneficent
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Related terms

arrogance arrogate arrogation arrogancy arrogantness

Phrases with the word

arrogant nature become less arrogant arrogant person less arrogant more arrogant arrogant officer

Anagrams

tarragon

Examples

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility. Simone de Beauvoir

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own. Sydney J. Harris

People accuse me of being arrogant all the time. I'm not arrogant, I'm focused. Russell Crowe

The arrogant blind man picks a fight with his guide. Ethiopian Proverb

An arrogant bug is a cocky roach. Colonial Proverb

How great man would be were he not so arrogant. Jewish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

arroded arrogance arrogancy arrogant nature arrogant officer arrogant person