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arrogance

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

noun

Meaning 1

The state of being arrogant; a type of extreme or foolish pride in which someone feels much superior to another.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable, usually

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: servility

2

noun

Meaning 2

overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: haughtiness, hauteur, high-handedness, lordliness

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: pride, superbia

Narrower terms: condescension, superciliousness, disdainfulness, contemptuousness, hubris, imperiousness, domineeringness, overbearingness, superiority, snobbery, snobbism, snobbishness

History

Etymology

From Middle English arrogaunce, from Middle French arrogance, from Latin arrogantia.

Across languages

Translations

139 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: arrogancë — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Arabic: تَكَبُّر (takabbur) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Arabic: غُرُور (ḡurūr) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Arabic: غَطْرَسَة (ḡaṭrasa) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Arabic: عُنْجُهِيَّة (ʕunjuhiyya) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Aramaic: ܫܘܩܠܐ (šûqālâ) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Armenian: մեծամտություն (mecamtutʻyun) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Azerbaijani: təkəbbür — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Belarusian: заразуме́ласць (zarazumjélascʹ) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Belarusian: ганары́стасць (hanarýstascʹ) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Bulgarian: високоме́рие (visokomérie) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Bulgarian: надме́нност (nadménnost) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Bulgarian: арога́нтност (arogántnost) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Catalan: arrogància — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Chinese Mandarin: 傲慢 (àomàn) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Czech: domýšlivost — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Czech: arogance — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Danish: arrogance — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Danish: hovmod — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Dutch: arrogantie — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Dutch: aanmatiging — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Egyptian: b-X-b-X-A24 (bẖbẖ) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Faroese: hugmóð — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Faroese: stórlæti — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Faroese: arrogansa — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Finnish: arroganssi — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Finnish: arroganttius — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Finnish: kopeus — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Finnish: koppavuus — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Finnish: pöyhkeys — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Finnish: röyhkeys — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Finnish: ylimielisyys — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • French: arrogance — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Galician: fachenda — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Galician: fenolía — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Galician: entono — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Galician: inchazo — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Galician: esfouto — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Galician: bravosidade — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • German: Arroganz — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • German: Dünkel — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • German: Hochmut — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • German: Überheblichkeit — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Greek: αλαζονεία (alazoneía) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Greek: υπεροψία (yperopsía) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Ancient Greek: φρόνημα (phrónēma) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Ancient Greek: ὑπερηφανία (huperēphanía) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Ancient Greek: βρένθος (brénthos) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Ancient Greek: ὑπεροψίᾱ (huperopsíā) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Hebrew: יְהִירוּת (y'hirút) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Hindi: अभिमान (abhimān) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Hindi: घमंड (ghamaṇḍ) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Hindi: हेकड़ी (hekṛī) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Hindi: अहंकार (ahaṅkār) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Hungarian: arrogancia — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Hungarian: gőg — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Hungarian: fennhéjázás — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Hungarian: önhittség — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Hungarian: önteltség — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Hungarian: önelégültség — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Hungarian: pökhendiség — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Hungarian: rátartiság — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Hungarian: nagyképűség — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Hungarian: felfuvalkodottság — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Hungarian: fölényesség — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Icelandic: gikksháttur — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Irish: borrachas — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Irish: anuaill — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Italian: arroganza — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Japanese: 高慢 (kōman) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Japanese: 傲慢 (gōman) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Kabuverdianu: farrónpa — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Kazakh: менмен (menmen) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Kazakh: паң (pañ) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Kazakh: өркөкірек (örkökırek) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Korean: 거만 (geoman) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Ladino: altigueza — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Latin: superbia — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Latvian: augstprātība — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Latvian: augstprātīgums — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Latvian: uzpūtība — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Latvian: uzpūtīgums — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Macedonian: ароганција (arogancija) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Malayalam: അഹങ്കാരം (ahaṅkāraṁ) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Marathi: अहंकार (ahaṅkār) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Marathi: उद्धटपणा (uddhaṭapṇā) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Marathi: माज (māj̈) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Norwegian Bokmål: arroganse — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: arroganse — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Polish: arogancja — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Portuguese: arrogância — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Portuguese: soberba — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Portuguese: altivez — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Romanian: trufie — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Romanian: mândrie — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Romanian: aroganță — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Russian: зано́счивость (zanósčivostʹ) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Russian: высокоме́рие (vysokomérije) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Russian: надме́нность (nadménnostʹ) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Russian: спесь (spesʹ) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Russian: горды́ня (gordýnja) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Russian: кичли́вость (kičlívostʹ) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Russian: чванли́вость (čvanlívostʹ) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Scottish Gaelic: uaill — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Scottish Gaelic: àrdan — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Scottish Gaelic: ladarnas — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Scottish Gaelic: dànadas — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Scottish Gaelic: sodal — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Serbo-Croatian: арога̀нција — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Serbo-Croatian: arogàncija — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Slovak: domýšľavosť — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Slovak: arogancia — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Slovene: domišljavost — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Spanish: arrogancia — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Spanish: soberbia — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Spanish: altanería — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Spanish: altivez — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Swedish: arrogans — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Swedish: högmod — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Tibetan: རྒྱགས་པ (rgyags pa) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Tocharian B: śarwarñe — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Tocharian B: amāṃ — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Tok Pisin: pasin antap — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Turkish: kibir — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Turkish: tekebbür — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Ottoman Turkish: غرور (gurur) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Ottoman Turkish: كبر (kibr, kibir) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Ottoman Turkish: طور (tavr, tavır) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Ugaritic: 𐎂𐎀𐎐 (gản) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Ukrainian: зарозумі́лість (zarozumílistʹ) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Ukrainian: гордови́тість (hordovýtistʹ) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Ukrainian: пиха́тість (pyxátistʹ) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Ukrainian: чванькува́тість (čvanʹkuvátistʹ) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Ukrainian: чванькови́тість (čvanʹkovýtistʹ) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Urdu: اَبِھمان (abhimān) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Urdu: گَھمَنْڈ (ghamanḍ) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Urdu: تَکَبُّر (takabbur) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Urdu: غُرُور (ġurūr) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
  • Urdu: نَخوَت (naxwat) — act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner
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