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ˈær ə gəntar·ro·gant

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. arrogant, chesty, self-importantadjective

    having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride

    "an arrogant official"; "arrogant claims"; "chesty as a peacock"

Wiktionary

  1. arrogantadjective

    Given to arrogating; having excessive pride in oneself, often with contempt for others.

  2. Etymology: From arrogant, from arrogans, present active participle of arrogo.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Arrogantadjective

    Given to make exorbitant claims; haughty; proud.

    Etymology: arrogans, Lat.

    Feagh’s right unto that country which he claims, or the signiory therein, must be vain and arrogant. Edmund Spenser, on Ireland.

    An arrogant way of treating with other princes and states, is natural to popular governments. William Temple.

ChatGPT

  1. arrogant

    Arrogant refers to the behavior or attitude of an individual who has an exaggerated sense of their own importance, abilities, or worth, often showing a lack of consideration or respect for others. It is characterized by having a superior or haughty manner, believing oneself to be superior to others without a justified or valid reason.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Arrogantadjective

    making, or having the disposition to make, exorbitant claims of rank or estimation; giving one's self an undue degree of importance; assuming; haughty; -- applied to persons

  2. Arrogantadjective

    containing arrogance; marked with arrogance; proceeding from undue claims or self-importance; -- applied to things; as, arrogant pretensions or behavior

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of arrogant in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of arrogant in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of arrogant in a Sentence

  1. RAMANA PEMMARAJU:

    Nothing is ever wrong if you learn out of it and nothing is right if it makes you arrogant. Watch On!”

  2. Alex Stamos:

    I think the company is lasting, but I think also that the 101 is littered with the old headquarters of companies that thought they would be around forever. That is a constant part of Silicon Valley, the death and the rebirth of these products and and these organizations. ... [ N ] obody can get too comfortable and too arrogant about how long anybody can be around, and how long you can be on top.

  3. Dean Koontz:

    We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.

  4. Iain Ward:

    I hope this doesn’t sound arrogant, but I’m experienced enough to know that the hardest thing that we are going to do has nothing to do with your physical fitness ability, it’s going to be your tolerance of having a really sore bum, which you can’t train for.

  5. Garry Trudeau:

    America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.

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