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- Dictionarystuck-up/ˌstəkˈəp/
adjective
- 1. staying aloof from others because one thinks one is superior: informal "“Stuck-up snob,” Grandpa used to whisper"
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The meaning of STUCK-UP is conceited, snobbish. How to use stuck-up in a sentence.
adjective. informal disapproving uk / ˌstʌk ˈʌp / us / ˌstʌk ˈʌp / Add to word list. too proud and considering yourself to be very important: She's so stuck up, she won't even talk to us. a bunch of stuck-up snobs. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. acting as if you are more important than other people.
If you have an exaggerated opinion of yourself, believing you're smarter, more attractive, or just generally better than everyone else, you're stuck-up. If you talk about nothing but the awards you've won, and your friends might think you're stuck-up.
Stuck-up definition: snobbishly conceited.. See examples of STUCK-UP used in a sentence.
stuck-up - (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant; "a snotty little scion of a degenerate family"-Laurent Le Sage; "they're snobs--stuck-up and uppity and persnickety"
Definition of stuck-up adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
adjective. If you say that someone is stuck-up, you mean that they are very proud and unfriendly because they think they are very important. [informal, disapproval] He was a famous actor, but he wasn't a bit stuck-up.
(idiomatic) Snobbish, conceited; believing oneself to be better than others; haughty; arrogant or egotistical. The rich people in that neighborhood were stuck up and not friendly at all. Wiktionary. Alternative spelling of stuck up. Wiktionary. Synonyms: uppish. snooty. persnickety. snotty. snot-nosed. bigheaded. too big for one's breeches.
STUCK–UP meaning: acting unfriendly towards other people because you think you are better than they are conceited.
stuck-up. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English ˌstuck-ˈup adjective informal proud and unfriendly because you think you are better and more important than other people – used to show disapproval SYN snooty His wife was a bit stuck-up.
