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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Arrogant \Ar"ro*gant\, adjective [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.
Arrogant Winchester, that haughty prelate. --Shak.
2. Containing arrogance; marked with arrogance; proceeding from undue claims or self-importance; -- applied to things; as, arrogant pretensions or behavior.
Syn: Magisterial; lordly; proud; assuming; overbearing; presumptuous; haughty. See {Magisterial}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
arrogant
adjective: having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride; "an arrogant official"; "arrogant claims"; "chesty as a peacock" [syn: {chesty}, {self-important}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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