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Adjectives (8)
grand, august
adj. of or befitting a lord; "heir to a lordly fortune"; "of august lineage"
swaggering, prideful, supercilious, disdainful, haughty, sniffy
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
Fuzzynyms (54)
brazen, audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bold-faced, brassy, brazen-faced, insolent
adj. unrestrained by convention or propriety; "an audacious trick to pull"; "a barefaced hypocrite"; "the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim"- Los Angeles Times; "bald-faced lies"; "brazen arrogance"; "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell
insulting, scornful, disdainful, contemptuous
adj. expressing extreme contempt
arch, condescending, patronizing
adj. (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension
overblown, grandiloquent, pompous, pontifical, portentous
adj. puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
large, orotund, bombastic, declamatory, turgid
adj. ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"
sarcastic
adj. expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds
superior
adj. of or characteristic of high rank or importance; "a superior officer"
imperious, masterful
adj. able to deal authoritatively with affairs; "dismissed the matter with an imperious wave of her hand"
clannish, cliquish, clubby, snobbish
adj. befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior
unfriendly
adj. not disposed to friendship or friendliness; "an unfriendly coldness of manner"; "an unfriendly action to take"
unapproachable, distant, aloof, offish
adj. remote in manner; "stood apart with aloof dignity"; "a distant smile"; "he was upstage with strangers"
chilly, distant
adj. "relations were cool and polite"
recluse, reclusive, withdrawn
adj. withdrawn from society; seeking solitude; "lived an unsocial reclusive life"
authoritarian, dictatorial, overbearing
adj. expecting unquestioning obedience; "he was imperious and dictatorial"; "the timid child of authoritarian parents"; "insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter"
cavalier, high-handed
adj. given to haughty disregard of others
Synonyms (65)
patrician, gentle, upper-class, aristocratic, blue-blooded, coroneted, highborn, titled, wellborn
adj. belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy; "an aristocratic family"; "aristocratic Bostonians"; "aristocratic government"; "a blue family"; "blue blood"; "the blue-blooded aristocracy"; "of gentle blood"; "patrician landholders of the American South"; "aristocratic bearing"; "aristocratic features"; "patrician tastes"
aristocratic
adj. belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy; "an aristocratic family"; "aristocratic Bostonians"; "aristocratic government"; "a blue family"; "blue blood"; "the blue-blooded aristocracy"; "of gentle blood"; "patrician landholders of the American South"; "aristocratic bearing"; "aristocratic features"; "patrician tastes"
royal, imperial, purple, majestic, regal
adj. belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler; "golden age of imperial splendor"; "purple tyrant"; "regal attire"; "treated with royal acclaim"; "the royal carriage of a stag's head"
kingly, kinglike
adj. having the rank of or resembling or befitting a king; "symbolizing kingly power"; "the murder of his kingly guest"
monarchal, monarchical
adj. having the characteristics of or befitting or worthy of a monarch; "monarchical gestures"; "monarchal pomp"
princely
adj. having the rank of or befitting a prince; "a princely bearing"; "princely manner"
queenly, queenlike
adj. having the rank of or resembling or befitting a queen; "queenly propriety"; "clad in her queenly raiment"; "Rosetti's queenly portraits of women"
royal
adj. being of the rank of a monarch; "of royal ancestry"; "princes of the blood royal"
arrogant, chesty, self-important
adj. having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride; "an arrogant official"; "arrogant claims"; "chesty as a peacock"
big, swelled
adj. feeling self-importance; "too big for his britches"; "had a swelled head"; "he was swelled with pride"
snotty, snot-nosed, bigheaded, snooty, stuck-up, uppish, too big for one's breeches
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"
bragging, crowing, braggart, big, boastful, braggy, cock-a-hoop, self-aggrandizing, vainglorious
adj. exhibiting self-importance; "big talk"
dignified, self-respecting, self-respectful
adj. having or showing self-esteem
vain, conceited, egotistic, egotistical, self-conceited, swollen-headed
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"
glorious, illustrious, honored, respected, honoured
adj. having or worthy of pride; "redoubtable scholar of the Renaissance"; "born of a redoubtable family"
gratifying
adj. occasioning pride; "a gratifying (or proud) achievement"
house-proud
adj. proud of your house or its furnishings or upkeep
overproud
adj. excessively proud
pleased, proud of
adj. feeling pleasurable satisfaction over something by which you measures your self-worth; "proud of their child"
purse-proud
adj. proud or arrogant because of your wealth (especially in the absence of other distinction)
shabby-genteel
adj. trying to maintain dignity and self respect despite shabbiness
Antonyms (9)
common, plebeian
adj. of the common people of ancient Rome; "a plebeian magistrate"
common, plebeian, vulgar, unwashed
adj. of or associated with the great masses of people; "the common people in those days suffered greatly"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "his square plebeian nose"; "a vulgar and objectionable person"; "the unwashed masses"
humble
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
submissive, deferential
adj. inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination; "submissive servants"; "a submissive reply"; "replacing troublemakers with more submissive people"
lordly
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