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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | haughty |
| Synonyms: | arrogant, cavalier*, conceited, condescending, egotistic, egotistical, high and mighty, hoity-toity, la-di-da, lofty, on a high horse, pompous, pretentious, snobbish, snotty, stuck-up, superior, uppity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | boastful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bragging |
| Synonyms: | arrogant, big, big-headed, bombastic, cocky, conceited, crowing, egotistic, egotistical, exultant, full of hot air, hifalutin, hot stuff, know-it-all, loudmouth, on ego trip, pompous, pretentious, puffed-up, self-aggrandizing, self-applauding, smart-alecky, snooty, strutting, stuck-up, swaggering, swanky, swollen-headed, too big for one's britches, vainglorious, vaunting, windbag |
| Antonyms: | deprecating, modest |
| Main Entry: | cavalier |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | arrogant |
| Synonyms: | condescending, curt, disdainful, haughty, high-and-mighty, insolent, lofty, lordly, offhand, overbearing, proud, scornful, snooty, snotty, supercilious, superior |
| Antonyms: | humble, reticent, shy |
| Main Entry: | condescending |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | snobby, lordly |
| Synonyms: | arrogant, complaisant, disdainful, egotistic, la-dee-da, lofty, patronizing, snobbish, snooty, snotty, supercilious, superior, uppish, uppity |
| Antonyms: | approachable, friendly, humble |
| Main Entry: | contemptuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | arrogant, insolent |
| Synonyms: | audacious, bold, cavalier, cheeky, cold-shoulder, condescending, contumelious, cool, derisive, derisory, disdainful, disrespectful, dog it, hard, hard-nosed, haughty, high and mighty, high hat, insulting, on high horse, opprobrious, sardonic, scornful, sneering, snippy, snobbish, snooty, snotty, supercilious, temperamental, uppity, upstage |
| Notes: | contemptible means deserving contempt, while contemptuous means bestowing contempt; the first sense of contemptuous was 'despising law and order' |
| Antonyms: | humble, polite, respected, shy |
| Main Entry: | disdainful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | scornful |
| Synonyms: | aloof, antipathetic, arrogant, averse, cavalier, contemning, contemptuous, cool, derisive, despising, egotistic, haughty, high-and-mighty, hoity-toity, indifferent, insolent, lordly, overbearing, proud, rejecting, repudiating, scouting, sneering, snooty, supercilious, superior, toplofty, unsympathetic, uppity |
| Antonyms: | esteemable, favoring, loving, praising, respectful |
| Main Entry: | haughty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | arrogant |
| Synonyms: | assuming, cavalier*, conceited, contemptuous, detached, disdainful, distant, egotistic, egotistical, high, high and mighty, hoity-toity, imperious, indifferent, lofty, on high horse, overbearing, overweening, proud, reserved, scornful, sniffy, snobbish, snooty, snotty, stuck-up, supercilious, superior, uppity |
| Antonyms: | humble, meek, shy, timid |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | high and mighty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | haughty, overbearing |
| Synonyms: | arrogant, cavalier, cocky*, conceited, contemptuous, disdainful, egotistic, egotistical, high-handed, highfalutin, hoity-toity, imperious, lofty, lordly, on high horse, presumptuous, sniffy, snobbish, snooty, snotty, stuck-up, stuffy, superior, uppity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lofty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | arrogant, high and mighty |
| Synonyms: | ambitious, cavalier, condescending, disdainful, grandiose, haughty, high-minded, immodest, insolent, overbearing, patronizing, pretentious, proud, snooty, supercilious |
| Antonyms: | humble, modest |
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