arrogant

arrogant
    adj 1: having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out
           of overbearing pride; "an arrogant official"; "arrogant
           claims"; "chesty as a peacock" [syn: {arrogant},
           {chesty}, {self-important}]
    

Arrogant \Ar"ro*gant\, a. [F. arrogant, L. arrogans, p. pr. of
   arrogare. See {Arrogate}.]
   1. Making, or having the disposition to make, exorbitant
      claims of rank or estimation; giving one's self an undue
      degree of importance; assuming; haughty; -- applied to
      persons.
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            Arrogant Winchester, that haughty prelate. --Shak.
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   2. Containing arrogance; marked with arrogance; proceeding
      from undue claims or self-importance; -- applied to
      things; as, arrogant pretensions or behavior.
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   Syn: Magisterial; lordly; proud; assuming; overbearing;
        presumptuous; haughty. See {Magisterial}.
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145 Moby Thesaurus words for "arrogant":
      absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, affected, arbitrary,
      aristocratic, artificial, assuming, assured, audacious,
      authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic, big, bloated, boastful,
      bold, bossy, brash, brassy, brazen, bumptious, cavalier,
      challenging, cheeky, clannish, cliquish, cocksure, cocky, cold,
      conceited, condescending, confident, contemptuous, contumelious,
      convinced, cool, daring, decided, defiant, defying, derisive,
      despotic, determined, dictatorial, disdainful, disregardful,
      domineering, egotistical, exclusive, familiar, feudal, forward,
      greatly daring, grinding, haughty, high and mighty,
      high-and-mighty, high-faluting, high-flown, high-handed,
      high-headed, high-nosed, highfalutin, hoity-toity, hubristic,
      imperative, imperial, imperious, impertinent, important, impudent,
      insolent, insulting, lofty, lordly, magisterial, magistral,
      mannered, masterful, monocratic, obtrusive, oppressive,
      overbearing, overconfident, overpresumptuous, overruling, oversure,
      overweening, patronizing, peremptory, persuaded, pert, poised,
      pompous, pontifical, positive, presuming, presumptuous, procacious,
      proud, puffy, purse-proud, pushy, reassured,
      regardless of consequences, repressive, saucy, scornful, secure,
      self-assertive, self-assured, self-confident, self-important,
      self-reliant, severe, showy, sneering, sniffy, snobbish, snobby,
      snooty, snotty, strict, stuck-up, stuffy, supercilious, superior,
      suppressive, sure, swaggering, toploftical, toplofty, tyrannical,
      tyrannous, unafraid, undoubting, unfaltering, unhesitating,
      unwavering, uppish, uppity, upstage, vain, withering