| Main Entry: | insolence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boldness, disrespect |
Synonyms: |
abuse, arrogance, audacity, back talk, brass, brazenness, cheek, chutzpah*, contempt, contemptuousness, contumely, effrontery, gall, guff, hardihood, impertinence, impudence, incivility, insubordination, lip, offensiveness, pertness, presumption, rudeness, sass, sauce, uncivility |
Antonyms: |
humility, modesty, politeness, respect |
| Concept: | [Undue assumption of superiority.] Insolence. |
| Category: | 4. Extrinsic Affections |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
insolence; haughtiness; arrogance, airs; overbearance; domineering; tyranny., impertinence; sauciness; flippancy, dicacity, petulance, procacity, bluster; swagger, swaggering; bounce; terrorism., assumption, presumption; beggar on horseback; usurpation., impudence, assurance, audacity, hardihood, front, face, brass; shamelessness; effrontery, hardened front, face of brass., assumption of infallibility., saucebox (blusterer).
-verbs
be insolent; bluster, vapor, swagger, swell, give oneself airs, snap one's fingers, kick up a dust; swear (affirm); rap out oaths; roister. arrogate; assume, presume; make bold, make free; take a liberty, give an inch and take an ell., domineer, bully, dictate, hector; lord it over; traiter de haut en bas, regarder de haut en bas; exact; snub, huff, beard, fly in the face of; put to the blush; bear down, beat down; browbeat, intimidate; trample down, tread down, trample under foot; dragoon, ride roughshod over., out face, outlook, outstare, outbrazen, outbrave; stare out of countenance; brazen out; lay down the law; teach one's grandmother to suck eggs; assume a lofty bearing; talk big, look big; put on big looks, act the grand seigneur; mount the high horse, ride the high horse; toss the head, carry, with a high hand., tempt Providence, want snuffing.
-adjectives
insolent, haughty, arrogant, imperious, magisterial, dictatorial, arbitrary; high-handed, high and mighty; contumelious, supercilious, overbearing, intolerant, domineering, overweening, high-flown., flippant, pert, fresh [U.S.], cavalier, saucy, forward, impertinent, malapert., precocious, assumiing, would-be, bumptious., bluff; brazen, shameless, aweless, unblushlng, unabashed; boldfaced, barefaced, brazen-faced; dead to shame, lost to shame., impudent, audacious, presumptuous, free and easy, devil-may-care, rollicking; jaunty, janty; roistering, blustering, hectoring, swaggering, vaporing; thrasonic, fire eating, "full of sound and fury " [Macbeth].
-adverbs
with a high hand; ex cathedra.
-phrases
one's bark being worse than his bite; "beggars mounted run their horse to death" [Henry VI]; quid times? Caesarem vehis [Plutarch].
|
Antonyms: |
servility |
| Browse Concept Index » | |
| Main Entry: | arrogance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | exaggerated self-opinion |
Synonyms: |
airs, aloofness, audacity, bluster, braggadocio, brass, cheek, chutzpah*, conceit, conceitedness, contemptuousness, crust, disdain, disdainfulness, ego, egotism, gall, haughtiness, hauteur, high-handedness, hubris, imperiousness, insolence, loftiness, nerve, ostentation, overbearance, pomposity, pompousness, presumption, pretension, pretentiousness, pride, priggishness, scornfulness, self-importance, self-love, smugness, superciliousness, swagger, vanity |
Antonyms: |
humility, meekness, servility |
| Main Entry: | assumption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | arrogance |
Synonyms: |
brass, chutzpah*, cockiness, conceit, imperiousness, insolence, nerve, presumption, pride, sass, self-importance |
Antonyms: |
genuineness, naturalness, reality, realness |
| Main Entry: | audacity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | arrogance, presumptuousness |
Synonyms: |
assurance, audaciousness, brass, cheek, chutzpah*, cockiness, crust, defiance, disrespectfulness, effrontery, forwardness, gall, guts*, gutsiness, hardiness, impertinence, impudence, insolence, moxie, nerve, rudeness, shamelessness, spunk, stuff*, temerity |
Antonyms: |
gentility, humility, meekness, modesty, timidity, yielding |
| Main Entry: | back talk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rude answer |
Synonyms: |
back answer, backchat, cheek, comeback, guff, insolence, insult, lip, mouth, nasty reply, rejoinder, retort, return, riposte, sass, sauce, short answer, uptake |
| Main Entry: | brass |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | impulsiveness; nerve |
Synonyms: |
assumption, audacity, brashness, cheek, chutzpah*, confidence, effrontery, gall, impertinence, impudence, insolence, presumption, rudeness |
Antonyms: |
carefulness, caution, circumspection, prudence |
| Main Entry: | cheek |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | audacity, boldness |
Synonyms: |
brashness, brass, brazenness, chutzpah*, confidence, disrespect, effrontery, gall, impertinence, impudence, insolence, lip, nerve*, presumption, rudeness, sauce, temerity |
Antonyms: |
humbleness, meekness, timidity |
| Main Entry: | defiance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disobedience, disregard |
Synonyms: |
affront, audacity, back talk, big talk, boldness, bravado, brazenness, call, cartel, challenge, command, confrontation, contempt, contrariness, contumacy, dare, defy, effrontery, enjoinder, factiousness, gas*, guts*, hot air, impudence, impugnment, insolence, insubordination, insurgence, insurgency, intractableness, lip, muster*, opposition, order, perversity, provocation, rebellion, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, revolt, sass, spite, stump, summons, temerity, throwing of the gauntlet, unruliness |
Antonyms: |
acquiescence, obedience, regard, respect, submission, subordination |
| Main Entry: | disdain |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hate; indifference |
Synonyms: |
antipathy, arrogance, aversion, contempt, contumely, derision, despisal, despisement, despite, dislike, disparagement, hatred, haughtiness, hauteur, insolence, loftiness, pride, ridicule, scorn, sneering, snobbishness, superbity, superciliousness |
| Notes: | contempt is a more engaged, more involved feeling of disapproval than disdain |
Antonyms: |
admiration, esteem, favor, like, love, praise, respect |