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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

showing or having a superior attitude towards others;

e.g. He was fed up with her patronizing comments just because she lived in a fancy mansion and he lived in the slums.

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Similar Words

Backing

Condescending

Down

Self-flattering

Than

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Opposite Words

Baffling

Demure

Disappointing

Down-to-earth

Failing

Frustrating

Humble

Lowly

Meek

Modest

Self-deprecating

Self-deprecatory

Unarrogant

Unassertive

Unassuming

Unpretentious

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Related Words

Affecting

Arrogant

Assumptive

Assured

Backing

Biggety

Bumptious

Cavalier

Chesty

Complacent

Conceited

Consequential

Cutting

Disdainful

Egotistical

Encouraging

Financing

Haughty

Helping

Hifalutin

High-handed

High-hat

Highfalutin

Huffy

Imperious

Important

Keeping

Lofty

Lordly

Masterful

Nursing

Out

Overweening

Peremptory

Pompous

Presumptuous

Pretentious

Prideful

Proud

Saving

Self-asserting

Self-assertive

Self-important

Self-satisfied

Siding

Slighting

Smug

Sniffy

Stiff-necked

Stuck-up

Supercilious

Superior

Toplofty

Up

Uppity

Vain

Vainglorious

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