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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

Having or showing an attitude of superiority or haughtiness.

e.g. The toplofty aristocrat looked down on the common people.

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Similar Words

Arrogant

Assumptive

Bumptious

Cavalier

Chesty

Condescending

Haughty

Hifalutin

High-handed

High-hat

Highfalutin

Huffy

Imperious

Important

Lofty

Lordly

Masterful

Overweening

Peremptory

Pompous

Presumptuous

Pretentious

Regimental

Self-adulatory

Self-asserting

Self-assertive

Self-congratulatory

Self-flattering

Sniffy

Stiff-necked

Supercilious

Superior

Than

Uppity

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Opposite Words

Acquiescent

Bashful

Compliant

Deferential

Demure

Diffident

Introverted

Meek

Modest

Mousy

Overmodest

Passive

Quiet

Reserved

Retiring

Self-critical

Self-deprecating

Self-deprecatory

Self-doubting

Sheepish

Shy

Subdued

Submissive

Timid

Unaggressive

Unarrogant

Unassertive

Unassuming

Unobtrusive

Unpretentious

Yielding

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Related Words

Aristocratic

Assured

Authoritarian

Authoritative

Autocratic

Biggety

Boastful

Bombastic

Bossy

Braggart

Brash

Cocky

Complacent

Conceited

Condescending

Consequential

Despotic

Dictatorial

Disdainful

Dominant

Domineering

Egocentric

Egotistical

Elitist

Extroverted

Forward

High-hat

Hubristic

Imperious

Impertinent

Important

Impudent

Magisterial

Masterful

Narcissistic

Overbearing

Overweening

Patronizing

Peremptory

Persnickety

Pompous

Pontifical

Potty

Prideful

Proud

Ritzy

Saucy

Self-applauding

Self-centered

Self-flattering

Self-important

Self-satisfied

Smug

Snobbish

Snobby

Snooty

Snotty

Stuck-up

Toffee

Toffee-nosed

Tyrannical

Tyrannous

Uninhibited

Unreserved

Vain

Vainglorious

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