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- Dictionaryar·ro·gant/ˈerəɡənt/
adjective
- 1. having or revealing an exaggerated sense of one's own importance or abilities: "he's arrogant and opinionated"
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The meaning of ARROGANT is exaggerating or disposed to exaggerate one's own worth or importance often by an overbearing manner. How to use arrogant in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Arrogant.
ARROGANT definition: 1. unpleasantly proud and behaving as if you are more important than, or know more than, other…. Learn more.
Arrogant definition: making claims or pretensions to superior importance or rights; overbearingly assuming; insolently proud. See examples of ARROGANT used in a sentence.
Arrogant derives from Latin arrogare "to claim," and the idea is that someone is claiming credit or advantages that they are not entitled to. It's close in meaning to haughty and supercilious, but both of those have connotations of coolness and perceived superiority that arrogant does not.
The meaning of ARROGANCE is an attitude of superiority manifested in an overbearing manner or in presumptuous claims or assumptions. How to use arrogance in a sentence.
Someone who is arrogant behaves in a proud, unpleasant way towards other people because they believe that they are more important than others. [ disapproval ] He was so arrogant.
1. Having or displaying a sense of overbearing self-worth or self-importance. 2. Marked by or arising from a feeling or assumption of one's superiority toward others: an arrogant contempt for the weak. [Middle English arrogaunt, from Old French, from Latin arrogāns, arrogant-, present participle of arrogāre, to arrogate; see arrogate.]
