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arrogantarrogant /ˈærəgənt/ ●●○ adjective ETYMOLOGYarrogantOrigin: 1300-1400 Latin, present participle of arrogare, from Latin ad- to + rogare to ask THESAURUSsure that you can do something or deal with a situation successfully► confidentsure that you can do something or deal with a situation successfully: Sandy gave her a confident smile. ► self-confident confident that you can do things well and that other people will like you: He’s much more self-confident since he got a job. ► self-assured/self-possessed confident and calm about what you are doing: She gave the speech in a slow self-assured voice. ► poised behaving in a confident, calm, and graceful way: Catherine looked poised and ready as the audience waited for her to begin. ► secure feeling confident, safe, and happy: The teachers at the school work hard to make the children feel secure. ► assertive confident and willing to say what you want or demand things: Men tend to be more assertive than women. ► bold confident and not afraid of offending people or do something dangerous or new: She was bold enough to tell her boss that he was doing the wrong thing. ► brash confident in a loud way that annoys other people: Ed can be brash, but he does manage to sell cars. ► arrogant too confident and showing that you think you are better or smarter than other people: He’s very smart, but he’s so arrogant no one wants to work with him. thinking that you are more important, skillful, etc. than you really are► proud thinking that you are more important, skillful, etc. than you really are: He was a proud man who refused to admit his mistakes. ► arrogant behaving in a rude or too confident way because you think you are more important, interesting, or intelligent than other people: He was too arrogant to listen to any of our ideas. ► egotistical formal believing that you are more important, interesting, or intelligent than other people and that you do not need to think or care about them: She’s so egotistical, she thinks she can do the job by herself. ► conceited too proud of yourself, especially of what you can do or of the way you look: He’s so conceited! He thinks every girl likes him. ► vain too proud, especially of the way you look: Eva was too vain to wear glasses. ► smug quietly proud of yourself in a way that annoys other people: From her smug smile, I could tell that she had found the right answer before me. ► haughty formal behaving in a very proud and unfriendly way and believing that you are more important or better than other people: His wife was a haughty woman, who expected everyone to obey her wishes. ► snobbish thinking that you are better than other people because you are from a higher social class: Her snobbish parents didn’t like her boyfriend because he didn’t go to college. ► pompous behaving in a proud and serious way, and using long and formal words to sound important: She found him pompous and annoying. so proud of your own abilities or qualities that you behave as if you are much more important than anyone else: an arrogant, selfish man an arrogant smile► see thesaurus at confident, proud [Origin: 1300–1400 Latin, present participle of arrogare, from Latin ad- to + rogare to ask]—arrogantly adverb |