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snobbish - 19 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | snobbish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stuck-up, conceited |
| Synonyms: | aloof, arrogant, condescending, egotistic, haughty, high-flown*, ostentatious, overbearing, patronizing, persnickety*, pompous, pretentious, remote, snippy*, snooty*, snotty*, supercilious, superior, swanky, uppity*, high-and-mighty*, high-hat*, putting on airs, sniffy, tony, uppish |
| Antonyms: | benevolent, friendly, generous, sociable, accepting, welcoming |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | aristocratic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | privileged, elegant |
| Synonyms: | aloof, blue-blooded, courtly, dignified, elegant, elite, fine, haughty, noble, patrician, polished, refined, snobbish, stylish, well-bred, upper-class, well-born |
| Antonyms: | poor, vulgar, wanting, low-born, low-life, unprivileged |
| Main Entry: | condescending |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | snobby, lordly |
| Synonyms: | arrogant, complaisant, disdainful, egotistic, lofty, patronizing, snobbish, snooty*, snotty*, supercilious, superior, uppity, la-dee-da, uppish |
| Antonyms: | approachable, friendly, humble |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | contemptuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | arrogant, insolent |
| Synonyms: | audacious, bold, cavalier, cheeky, condescending, cool, derisive, disdainful, disrespectful, hard, hard-nosed, haughty, high and mighty*, insulting, opprobrious, sardonic, scornful, sneering, snippy, snobbish, snooty*, snotty*, supercilious, temperamental, uppity, upstage, cold-shoulder, contumelious, derisory, dog it, high hat, on high horse |
| Notes: | contemptible means deserving contempt, while contemptuous means bestowing contempt; the first sense of contemptuous was 'despising law and order' |
| Antonyms: | humble, polite, respected, shy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | egotistic/egoistic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thinking very highly of oneself |
| Synonyms: | affected, aloof, autocratic, boastful, boasting, conceited, egocentric, haughty, inflated, intimate, intrinsic, introverted, isolated, narcissistic, opinionated, personal, pompous, proud, self-absorbed, self-centered, self-important, snobbish, stuck-up*, subjective, superior, swollen, vain, vainglorious, bragging, egomaniacal, individualistic, inner-directed, obsessive, prideful, puffed up, self-admiring, stuck on oneself |
| Antonyms: | altruistic, humble, modest, reserved, shy, submissive, timid, unassuming, selfless |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | exclusive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unshared, restricted |
| Synonyms: | absolute, aloof, aristocratic, chic, choice, chosen, clannish, classy, closed, complete, confined, country club, elegant, entire, fashionable, full, independent, licensed, limited, narrow, only, particular, peculiar, posh, preferential, private, privileged, prohibitive, restrictive, ritzy, segregated, select, selfish, single, snobbish, sole, total, undivided, unique, whole, circumscribed, cliquish, discriminative, exclusionary, exclusory, socially correct, swank, upper crust |
| Antonyms: | divided, part, partial, shared, unlimited, unrestricted |
| Main Entry: | haughty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | arrogant |
| Synonyms: | assuming, cavalier*, conceited, contemptuous, detached, disdainful, distant, egotistic, high, high and mighty*, hoity-toity*, imperious, indifferent, lofty, overbearing, overweening, proud, reserved, scornful, snobbish, snooty*, snotty*, stuck-up*, supercilious, superior, uppity*, egotistical, on high horse, sniffy |
| Antonyms: | humble, meek, shy, timid |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | high and mighty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | haughty, overbearing |
| Synonyms: | arrogant, cavalier, cocky*, conceited, contemptuous, disdainful, egotistic, high-handed*, highfalutin*, hoity-toity*, imperious, lofty, lordly, presumptuous, snobbish, snooty*, snotty, stuck-up*, stuffy, superior, uppity*, egotistical, on high horse, sniffy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | holier-than-thou |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | self-righteously pious |
| Synonyms: | artificial, goody-goody, sanctimonious, smug, snobbish, unctuous, high-hat, judgmental, pietistic, simon-pure |
| Main Entry: | smug |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pleased with oneself |
| Synonyms: | complacent, conceited, holier-than-thou*, pompous, priggish, self-righteous, self-satisfied, snobbish, stuck-up*, stuffy, superior, vainglorious, egoistic, egotistical, hotshot, puffed-up, self-contented, stuck on oneself |
| Antonyms: | modest, unhappy, unsure, unself-confident |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | snooty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | haughty |
| Synonyms: | arrogant, cavalier*, conceited, condescending, egotistic, high and mighty*, hoity-toity, lofty, pompous, pretentious, snobbish, snotty*, stuck-up*, superior, uppity*, egotistical, la-di-da, on a high horse |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | uppity |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | arrogant |
| Synonyms: | audacious, bossy, cavalier, cheeky, cocky, conceited, egotistic, haughty, high and mighty*, know-it-all*, overbearing, pompous, presumptuous, pretentious, self-important, smug, snobbish, snooty*, snotty*, superior, vain, bragging, high falutin, puffed up, stuck up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | vainglorious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | boastful, proud |
| Synonyms: | arrogant, blowing one's own horn, boasting, bragging, cavalier, cocky*, conceited, egotistic, egotistical, haughty, high-and-mighty*, high-handed*, huffy*, overbearing, pompous, presumptuous, pretentious, puffed up, self-important, snobbish, snooty*, strutting, stuck-up*, swaggering, vain |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | egotistic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conceited |
| Synonyms: | affected, aloof, autocratic, boastful, boasting, conceited, egocentric, haughty, idiosyncratic, inborn, inflated, ingrained, inherent, intimate, intrinsic, introverted, isolated, narcissistic, opinionated, personal, pompous, proud, self-absorbed, self-centered, self-important, snobbish, stuck-up, subjective, superior, swollen, vain, vainglorious, bragging, egoistical, egomaniacal, egotistical, individualistic, inner-directed, obsessive, prideful, puffed up, self-admiring |
| Antonyms: | altruistic, humble, modest, reserved, unpretentious, selfless |
| Main Entry: | patronizing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | condescending |
| Synonyms: | arrogant, pretentious, snobbish, snobby, stooping |
| Main Entry: | proud |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | arrogant, self-important |
| Synonyms: | bloated, boastful, cavalier, cocky*, conceited, contemptuous, cool*, disdainful, domineering, egotistic, haughty, high-handed*, huffy*, imperious, insolent, lofty, narcissistic, ostentatious, overbearing, pompous, presumptuous, pretentious, scornful, self-satisfied, snobbish, snooty*, stuck-up*, supercilious, superior, vain, vainglorious, dismissive, egotistical, high-and-mighty*, puffed up, sniffy |
| Antonyms: | humble, meek, modest |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | superior |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | arrogant, haughty |
| Synonyms: | airy, bossy, cavalier, cocky*, condescending, cool, disdainful, insolent, lofty, overbearing, patronizing, pretentious, proud, snobbish, stuck-up*, supercilious, uppity*, upstage, high-and-mighty*, high-hat*, wiseguy |
| Antonyms: | humble, meek |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | average |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun, verb |
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Adjectives: |
low, low, barbaresque, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, base, base, below par, boorish, born within sound of Bow, churlish, clownish, cockney, common, demotic, dunghull, earth, homespun, ignoble, loutish, mean, menial, mushroom, no great shakes, obscure, of low extraction, of low origin, of low parentage, of mean extraction, of mean origin, of mean parentage, philodemic, plebeian, proletarian, proletariat, raffish, risen from the ranks, rude, rustic, scrubby, snobbish, sorry, subaltern, uncivilized, underling, unknown to fame, unlicked, untitled, vile, vulgar
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| Main Entry: | vulgarity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
low, particular, affected, alabandical, awkward, barbaric, barbarous, bedizened, blackguard, boorish, brutish, clownish, coarse, countrified, doggerel, dowdy, extravagant, fescennine, gaudy, gingerbread, gothic, gross, heathenish, heavy, home, homespun, horrid, ill, in bad taste, incondite, indecorous, meretricious, monstrous, newfangled, obsolete, obtrusive, odd, outlandish, provincial, raffish, ribald, rowdy, rudas, rude, rustic, savage, shabby, slovenly, snobbish, spurcidical, tawdry, tramontane, tricked out, unbeseeming, uncivil, unclassical, uncombed, uncourtly, uncouth, underbred, unfashionable, unfeminine, ungenteel, ungentlemanlike, ungentlemanly, ungraceful, unkempt, unladylike, unlicked, unpolished, unpresentable, unrefined, unseemly, untamed, vulgar
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