arrogant
/ˈarəɡ(ə)nt
/adjective
Having or revealing an exaggerated sense of one’s own importance or abilities: he’s arrogant and opinionated a typically arrogant assumption...
- They look a little deeper into the matter without being pompous, arrogant or patronising.
- Tip in Iceland and you will be seen as arrogant and patronising - and you might get hot soup in your lap.
- Friends of Hendrie say that some people consider him to be arrogant and superior.
Synonyms
haughty, conceited, hubristic, self-important, opinionated, egotistic, full of oneself, superior;
overbearing, pompous, high-handed, swaggering, boastful, bumptious, blustering, patronizing, condescending, disdainful, contemptuous, imperious;
proud, vain, immodest;
lofty, lordly, snobbish, snobby, overweening, supercilious, smug;
pretentious, affected;
scornful, mocking, sneering, scoffing
informal hoity-toity, high and mighty, uppity, snooty, stuck-up, toffee-nosed, fancy-pants, snotty, jumped up, too big for one's boots, big-headed
Origin
Late Middle English: via Old French from Latin arrogant- 'claiming for oneself', from the verb arrogare (see arrogate).
This comes, via French, from Latin arrogare ‘to claim for oneself’.