arrogant
Americanadjective
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making claims or pretensions to superior importance or rights; overbearingly assuming; insolently proud.
an arrogant public official.
- Synonyms:
- brazen, imperious, haughty, presumptuous
- Antonyms:
- meek
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characterized by or proceeding from arrogance, or a sense of superiority, self-importance, or entitlement.
arrogant claims.
adjective
Related Words
See proud.
Other Word Forms
- arrogance noun
- arrogantly adverb
- superarrogant adjective
- superarrogantly adverb
- unarrogant adjective
- unarrogantly adverb
Etymology
Origin of arrogant
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English, from Latin arrogant-, stem of arrogāns ) “presuming,” present participle of arrogāre; arrogate, -ant
Example Sentences
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Defense attorneys argued that the brothers—successful, ambitious and social—could be crude and arrogant.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick accused Carney of “an arrogant kind of thought,” and likened the prime minister’s speech to whining and complaining.
You are wholly unburdened by guilt and you are arrogant beyond measurement.
From BBC
Were all lions arrogant and above it all?
From Literature
Bank management teams and boards have long been “complacent, and I would even argue arrogant.”
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