adj. marked by a large or well-developed chest; "he was big-chested, big-shouldered and heavy-armed"

adj. having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride; "an arrogant official"; "arrogant claims"; "chesty as a peacock"

adj. marked by casual disrespect; "a flip answer to serious question"; "the student was kept in for impudent behavior"

adj. able to deal authoritatively with affairs; "dismissed the matter with an imperious wave of her hand"

adj. puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek

adj. expressing extreme contempt

adj. (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension

adj. ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"

adj. of a display that is tawdry or vulgar

adj. expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds

adj. extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion; "a cold unfriendly nod"; "a cold and unaffectionate person"; "a cold impersonal manner"; "cold logic"; "the concert left me cold"

adj. expecting unquestioning obedience; "he was imperious and dictatorial"; "the timid child of authoritarian parents"; "insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter"

adj. befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior

adj. given to haughty disregard of others

adj. strong and heavily built: "a vigorous old man who spent half of his day on horseback"- W. H. Hudson; "`buirdly' is a Scottish term: a buirdly lad for twelve"

adj. having a bone structure that is massive in contrast with the surrounding flesh

adj. having broad shoulders; "big-shouldered and heavy-armed"

adj. extremely robust; "an iron constitution"

adj. having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships; "hardy explorers of northern Canada"; "proud of her tall stalwart son"; "stout seamen"; "sturdy young athletes"

adj. having massive arms; "he was big-chested, big-shouldered and heavy-armed"

adj. broad and solidly built

adj. feeling self-importance; "too big for his britches"; "had a swelled head"; "he was swelled with pride"

adj. (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant; "a snotty little scion of a degenerate family"-Laurent Le Sage; "they're snobs--stuck-up and uppity and persnickety"

adj. exhibiting self-importance; "big talk"

adj. having or showing self-esteem

adj. having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer

adj. characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance; "a conceited fool"; "an attitude of self-conceited arrogance"; "an egotistical disregard of others"; "so swollen by victory that he was unfit for normal duty"; "growing ever more swollen-headed and arbitrary"; "vain about her clothes"

adj. having or worthy of pride; "redoubtable scholar of the Renaissance"; "born of a redoubtable family"

adj. occasioning pride; "a gratifying (or proud) achievement"

adj. proud of your house or its furnishings or upkeep

adj. excessively proud

adj. feeling pleasurable satisfaction over something by which you measures your self-worth; "proud of their child"

adj. proud or arrogant because of your wealth (especially in the absence of other distinction)

adj. trying to maintain dignity and self respect despite shabbiness

adj. marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful; "a humble apology"; "essentially humble...and self-effacing, he achieved the highest formal honors and distinctions"- B.K.Malinowski