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- Dictionarysnobbish/ˈsnɒbɪʃ/
adjective
- 1. relating to, characteristic of, or like a snob: "the writer takes a rather snobbish tone"
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adjective. disapproving uk / ˈsnɒb.ɪʃ / us / ˈsnɑː.bɪʃ / ( informal snobby) Add to word list. C2. like a snob: My brother is very snobbish about cars. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Class & class-consciousness in general. anti-bourgeois. anti-snob. arriviste. bougie. gentrification. gentrify. go/come down in the world idiom.
If you're snobbish, you believe there are different social classes of people, and that you belong to the highest one. A snobbish person might think that graduating from a certain college makes him better than others, or that having more money makes him superior to those with less.
: being, characteristic of, or befitting a snob. a snobbish attitude. snobbishly adverb. snobbishness noun. Synonyms. aristocratic. elitist. high-hat. persnickety. potty. ritzy. snobby. snooty. snotty. toffee-nosed [ chiefly British] See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus. Examples of snobbish in a Sentence.
adjective. disapproving us / ˈsnɑː.bɪʃ / uk / ˈsnɒb.ɪʃ / ( informal snobby) Add to word list. C2. like a snob: My brother is very snobbish about cars. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Class & class-consciousness in general. anti-bourgeois. anti-snob. arriviste. bougie. gentrification. gentrify. go/come down in the world idiom.
snobbish. (snɒbɪʃ ) adjective. If you describe someone as snobbish, you disapprove of them because they are too proud of their social status, intelligence, or taste. [disapproval] They had a snobbish dislike for their intellectual and social inferiors. I'd expected her to be snobbish but she was warm and friendly.
Define snobbish. snobbish synonyms, snobbish pronunciation, snobbish translation, English dictionary definition of snobbish. adj. Of, befitting, or resembling a snob; pretentious. snob′bish·ly adv. snob′bish·ness n.
adjective. uk / ˈsnɒbɪʃ / us (also snobby) Add to word list. like a snob: a snobbish attitude. (Definition of snobbish from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Translations of snobbish. in Chinese (Traditional) 勢利的, 愛虛榮的… See more. in Chinese (Simplified) 势利的, 爱虚荣的… See more. in Spanish.
Snobbish definition: of, relating to, or characteristic of a snob. See examples of SNOBBISH used in a sentence.
/ˈsnɑːbi/ ) (disapproving) thinking that having a high social class is very important; feeling that you are better than other people because you are more intelligent or like things that many people do not like. She was quite snobbish about pop culture. Extra Examples. Oxford Collocations Dictionary. Want to learn more?
snobbish. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English snob‧bish /ˈsnɒbɪʃ $ ˈsnɑː-/ (also snobby /ˈsnɒbi $ ˈsnɑː-/) adjective behaving in a way that shows you think you are better than other people because you are from a higher social class or know more than they do Her family seems snobbish. —snobbishly adverb ...
