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Learn the meaning of arrogant, an adjective that describes someone who is proud and behaves as if they are better than others. See synonyms, antonyms, and usage examples from the Cambridge English Corpus.
Meaning of arrogant in English. 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.
Learn the meaning, synonyms, examples, and history of the word arrogant, which means showing scorn for inferiors or exaggerating one's own worth. Find out how to use arrogant in a sentence and how it differs from related words like proud, haughty, and lordly.
Arrogant definition: making claims or pretensions to superior importance or rights; overbearingly assuming; insolently proud. See examples of ARROGANT used in a sentence.
Arrogant derives from Latin arrogare "to claim," and the idea is that someone is claiming credit or advantages that they are not entitled to. It's close in meaning to haughty and supercilious, but both of those have connotations of coolness and perceived superiority that arrogant does not.
Find 127 words that mean showing scorn for inferiors or claiming more importance than warranted. Learn the nuances and differences of similar words like disdainful, haughty, insolent, lordly, overbearing, proud, and supercilious.
Learn the meaning, pronunciation and usage of the adjective arrogant, which describes someone who behaves in a proud, unpleasant way, showing little thought for other people. See example sentences, synonyms and related words in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
