| Main Entry: | snobbish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stuck-up, conceited |
Synonyms: |
aloof, arrogant, condescending, egotistic, haughty, high-and-mighty, high-flown, high-hat, ostentatious, overbearing, patronizing, persnickety*, pompous, pretentious, putting on airs, remote, sniffy, snippy, snooty, snotty, supercilious, superior, swanky, tony, uppish, uppity |
Antonyms: |
accepting, benevolent, friendly, generous, sociable, welcoming |
| 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, upper-class, well-born, well-bred |
Antonyms: |
low-born, low-life, poor, unprivileged, vulgar, wanting |
| Main Entry: | condescending |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | snobby, lordly |
Synonyms: |
arrogant, complaisant, disdainful, egotistic, la-dee-da, lofty, patronizing, snobbish, snooty, snotty, supercilious, superior, uppish, uppity |
Antonyms: |
approachable, friendly, humble |
| Main Entry: | contemptuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | arrogant, insolent |
Synonyms: |
audacious, bold, cavalier, cheeky, cold-shoulder, condescending, contumelious, cool, derisive, derisory, disdainful, disrespectful, dog it, hard, hard-nosed, haughty, high and mighty, high hat, insulting, on high horse, opprobrious, sardonic, scornful, sneering, snippy, snobbish, snooty, snotty, supercilious, temperamental, uppity, upstage |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | egotistic/egoistic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thinking very highly of oneself |
Synonyms: |
affected, aloof, autocratic, boastful, boasting, bragging, conceited, egocentric, egomaniacal, haughty, individualistic, inflated, inner-directed, intimate, intrinsic, introverted, isolated, narcissistic, obsessive, opinionated, personal, pompous, prideful, proud, puffed up, self-absorbed, self-admiring, self-centered, self-important, snobbish, stuck on oneself, stuck-up, subjective, superior, swollen, vain, vainglorious |
Antonyms: |
altruistic, humble, modest, reserved, selfless, shy, submissive, timid, unassuming |
| Main Entry: | exclusive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unshared, restricted |
Synonyms: |
absolute, aloof, aristocratic, chic, choice, chosen, circumscribed, clannish, classy, cliquish, closed, complete, confined, country club, discriminative, elegant, entire, exclusionary, exclusory, fashionable, full, independent, licensed, limited, narrow, only, particular, peculiar, posh, preferential, private, privileged, prohibitive, restrictive, ritzy, segregated, select, selfish, single, snobbish, socially correct, sole, swank, total, undivided, unique, upper crust, whole |
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, egotistical, high, high and mighty, hoity-toity, imperious, indifferent, lofty, on high horse, overbearing, overweening, proud, reserved, scornful, sniffy, snobbish, snooty, snotty, stuck-up, supercilious, superior, uppity |
Antonyms: |
humble, meek, shy, timid |
| Main Entry: | high and mighty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | haughty, overbearing |
Synonyms: |
arrogant, cavalier, cocky*, conceited, contemptuous, disdainful, egotistic, egotistical, high-handed, highfalutin, hoity-toity, imperious, lofty, lordly, on high horse, presumptuous, sniffy, snobbish, snooty, snotty, stuck-up, stuffy, superior, uppity |
| Main Entry: | holier-than-thou |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | self-righteously pious |
Synonyms: |
artificial, goody-goody, high-hat, judgmental, pietistic, sanctimonious, simon-pure, smug, snobbish, unctuous |
| Main Entry: | proud |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | arrogant, self-important |
Synonyms: |
bloated, boastful, cavalier, cocky*, conceited, contemptuous, cool*, disdainful, dismissive, domineering, egotistic, egotistical, haughty, high-and-mighty, high-handed, huffy, imperious, insolent, lofty, narcissistic, ostentatious, overbearing, pompous, presumptuous, pretentious, puffed up, scornful, self-satisfied, sniffy, snobbish, snooty, stuck-up, supercilious, superior, vain, vainglorious |
Antonyms: |
humble, meek, modest |
