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arrogant adjective [ ˈarəɡ(ə)nt ]

• having or revealing an exaggerated sense of one's own importance or abilities.
• "he's arrogant and opinionated"
Similar: haughty, conceited, hubristic, self-important, opinionated, egotistic, full of oneself, superior, overbearing, pompous, high-handed, swaggering, boastful, bumptious, blustering, patronizing, condescending, disdainful, contemptuous, imperious, proud, vain, immodest, lofty, lordly, snobbish, snobby, overweening, supercilious, smug, pretentious, affected, scornful, mocking, sneering, scoffing, hoity-toity, high and mighty, uppity, snooty, stuck-up, toffee-nosed, fancy-pants, snotty, jumped up, too big for one's boots, big-headed,
Opposite: humble, modest,
Origin: late Middle English: via Old French from Latin arrogant- ‘claiming for oneself’, from the verb arrogare (see arrogate).


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