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ARROGANT definition: 1. unpleasantly proud and behaving as if you are more important than, or know more than, other…. Learn more.
The meaning of ARROGANT is exaggerating or disposed to exaggerate one's own worth or importance often by an overbearing manner. How to use arrogant in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Arrogant.
adjective. us / ˈer.ə.ɡ ə nt / uk / ˈær.ə.ɡ ə nt / Add to word list. B2. unpleasantly proud and behaving as if you are more important than, or know more than, other people: I found him arrogant and rude. Synonyms. conceited disapproving. condescending disapproving. haughty disapproving. hubristic literary. imperious. lordly.
Arrogant is an adjective for describing people who are too proud and look down on others, like supermodels who think their good looks give them a right to do whatever they want. Arrogant derives from Latin arrogare "to claim," and the idea is that someone is claiming credit or advantages that they are not entitled to.
Someone who is arrogant behaves in a proud, unpleasant way towards other people because they believe that they are more important than others. [ disapproval ] He was so arrogant.
ARROGANCE definition: 1. the quality of being unpleasantly proud and behaving as if you are more important than, or know…. Learn more.
Arrogant definition: making claims or pretensions to superior importance or rights; overbearingly assuming; insolently proud. See examples of ARROGANT used in a sentence.
Definition of arrogant adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
: an attitude of superiority manifested in an overbearing manner or in presumptuous claims or assumptions. Synonyms. assumption. bumptiousness. consequence. haughtiness. hauteur. high horse. huffiness. imperiousness. loftiness. lordliness. masterfulness. peremptoriness. pomposity. pompousness. presumptuousness. pretense. pretence. pretension.
adj. 1. Having or displaying a sense of overbearing self-worth or self-importance. 2. Marked by or arising from a feeling or assumption of one's superiority toward others: an arrogant contempt for the weak. [Middle English arrogaunt, from Old French, from Latin arrogāns, arrogant-, present participle of arrogāre, to arrogate; see arrogate .]
