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arrogant

[ ar-uh-guhnt ]

adjective

  1. making claims or pretensions to superior importance or rights; overbearingly assuming; insolently proud:

    an arrogant public official.

    Synonyms: brazen, imperious, haughty, presumptuous

    Antonyms: meek

  2. characterized by or proceeding from arrogance, or a sense of superiority, self-importance, or entitlement:

    arrogant claims.

    Antonyms: humble, modest



arrogant

/ ˈærəɡənt /

adjective

  1. having or showing an exaggerated opinion of one's own importance, merit, ability, etc; conceited; overbearingly proud

    an arrogant teacher

    an arrogant assumption



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Derived Forms

  • ˈarrogance, noun
  • ˈarrogantly, adverb

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Other Words From

  • arro·gant·ly adverb
  • super·arro·gant adjective
  • super·arro·gant·ly adverb
  • un·arro·gant adjective
  • un·arro·gant·ly adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of arrogant1

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English, from Latin arrogant-, stem of arrogāns ) “presuming,” present participle of arrogāre; arrogate, -ant

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Word History and Origins

Origin of arrogant1

C14: from Latin arrogāre to claim as one's own; see arrogate

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Synonym Study

See proud.

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Example Sentences

We don’t need to get into the details but if you want to read up on him, just do a search for de Blasio and then “arrogant” or “hypocrite” or even “schmuck.”

A recent lawsuit had laid bare the reality of the upper management at the company, a boys-only club of powerful and arrogant men with outsize egos in an echelon that even the most competent and talented of women had trouble reaching.

From Fortune

The other side of the coin of this glowing account is that Nigerians are also seen as arrogant people coming from a corrupt country who have exported their corruption abroad in the form of internet scams.

They did not engage with this investor or his firm ever again, but the exchange was the most egregiously arrogant and dismissive example of a whole set of responses they received from the predominantly male venture capital class.

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It had been arrogant of me to think we could stroll up to some of the least-studied birds in Northeast Asia and assume they’d hand us their secrets.

Mizell called the Justice Department “arrogant” for bringing this frivolous case to the court.

Preening, arrogant, vindictive, and inexorable; awash with cash; corrupt; in bed with corporate America and big finance.

He struck many people there, at the time, not in retrospect, as arrogant and cold.

All that would be tolerable if he were an arrogant jerk, or just plain dumb.

It was arrogant,” he says, adding, “If you go along with the status quo in South Carolina, you can break the law with impunity.

Despite the arrogant manner of his address, Garnache felt prepossessed in the newcomer's favour.

Parr was an arrogant old coxcomb, who abused the respectful kindness he received, and took his pipe into drawing-rooms.

Because of his enormous wealth and arrogant manner, he was nicknamed "King" Carter.

The most ferocious and arrogant Mindanao tribes occupy regions within easy access of the coast.

How vain, how arrogant the babblings of the sectarians who tell us that the book of revelation is forever closed!

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