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arrogant

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

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Australian, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈæɹəɡənt/
  • British, Northern-England, Southern, Standard: /ˈaɹəɡənt/
  • /ˈæɹəɡənt/ without the Mary–marry–merry merger
  • /ˈɛɹəɡənt/ Mary–marry–merry merger
  • US: Mmmm Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • New-Zealand: /ˈɛɹəɡənt/
  • Scotland, Wales: /ˈaɾəɡənt/
  • CMU ARPABET: EH1 R AH0 G AH0 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Having excessive pride in oneself, often with contempt or disrespect for others.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • sound arrogant
  • an arrogant assumption
  • seem arrogant to others
  • He was too arrogant to admit his mistake.
  • Her arrogant attitude alienated the team.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: authoritarian, cocky, conceited, condescending, disdainful, egotistical, high-handed, narcissistic, overbearing, presumptuous, supercilious, stuck up, proud, vain

Antonyms: servile, humble, modest

2

adjective satellite

Meaning 2

having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • an arrogant official
  • arrogant claims
  • chesty as a peacock

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: chesty, self-important

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From Middle English arrogaunt, from Old French arrogant, from Latin arrogāns, present active participle of arrogō.

Across languages

Translations

192 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: arrogant — having excessive pride
  • Arabic: مُتَكَبِّر (mutakabbir) — having excessive pride
  • Arabic: مَغْرُور (maḡrūr) — having excessive pride
  • Armenian: գոռոզ (goṙoz) — having excessive pride
  • Armenian: ամբարտավան (ambartavan) — having excessive pride
  • Armenian: մեծամիտ (mecamit) — having excessive pride
  • Azerbaijani: ötkəm — having excessive pride
  • Azerbaijani: təkəbbürlü — having excessive pride
  • Azerbaijani: dikbaş — having excessive pride
  • Azerbaijani: məğrur — having excessive pride
  • Azerbaijani: yekəxana — having excessive pride
  • Basque: harro — having excessive pride
  • Belarusian: ганары́сты (hanarýsty) — having excessive pride
  • Belarusian: напы́шлівы (napýšlivy) — having excessive pride
  • Belarusian: фанабэры́сты (fanaberýsty) — having excessive pride
  • Belarusian: пыхлі́вы (pyxlívy) — having excessive pride
  • Belarusian: ганарлі́вы (hanarlívy) — having excessive pride
  • Belarusian: пага́рдлівы (pahárdlivy) — having excessive pride
  • Belarusian: самаўпэ́ўнены (samawpéwnjeny) — having excessive pride
  • Bulgarian: арога́нтен (arogánten) — having excessive pride
  • Bulgarian: надме́нен (nadménen) — having excessive pride
  • Bulgarian: високоме́рен (visokoméren) — having excessive pride
  • Catalan: arrogant — having excessive pride
  • Chinese Mandarin: 傲慢 (àomàn) — having excessive pride
  • Chinese Mandarin: 高傲 (gāo'ào) — having excessive pride
  • Chinese Mandarin: 驕傲 /骄傲 (jiāo'ào) — having excessive pride
  • Cimbrian: buulo — having excessive pride
  • Czech: arogantní — having excessive pride
  • Czech: domýšlivý — having excessive pride
  • Czech: nafoukaný — having excessive pride
  • Danish: arrogant — having excessive pride
  • Danish: højrøvet — having excessive pride
  • Dutch: arrogant — having excessive pride
  • Egyptian: q-A-A28-Aa17-Z1 (qꜣ sꜣ) — having excessive pride
  • Esperanto: aroganta — having excessive pride
  • Faroese: hugmóðigur — having excessive pride
  • Finnish: ylimielinen — having excessive pride
  • Finnish: röyhkeä — having excessive pride
  • Finnish: kopea — having excessive pride
  • Finnish: julkea — having excessive pride
  • French: arrogant — having excessive pride
  • French: orgueilleux — having excessive pride
  • Galician: arrogante — having excessive pride
  • Georgian: ამპარტავანი (amṗarṭavani) — having excessive pride
  • Georgian: ქედმაღალი (kedmaɣali) — having excessive pride
  • Georgian: მედიდური (mediduri) — having excessive pride
  • German: arrogant — having excessive pride
  • German: hochmütig — having excessive pride
  • German: eingebildet — having excessive pride
  • Gothic: 𐌼𐌹𐌺𐌹𐌻𐌸𐌿𐌷𐍄𐍃 (mikilþūhts) — having excessive pride
  • Greek: υπεροπτικός (yperoptikós) — having excessive pride
  • Greek: αλαζονικός (alazonikós) — having excessive pride
  • Ancient Greek: ὑπερήφανος (huperḗphanos) — having excessive pride
  • Ancient Greek: γαῦρος (gaûros) — having excessive pride
  • Hebrew: יָהִיר (yahir) — having excessive pride
  • Hebrew: מִתְנַשֵּׁא (mitnassé) — having excessive pride
  • Hindi: अभिमानी (abhimānī) — having excessive pride
  • Hindi: घमंडी (ghamaṇḍī) — having excessive pride
  • Hindi: दम्भी (dambhī) — having excessive pride
  • Hindi: अक्खड़ (akkhaṛ) — having excessive pride
  • Hindi: अहंकारी (ahaṅkārī) — having excessive pride
  • Hungarian: arrogáns — having excessive pride
  • Hungarian: öntelt — having excessive pride
  • Hungarian: pökhendi — having excessive pride
  • Hungarian: önhitt — having excessive pride
  • Hungarian: önelégült — having excessive pride
  • Hungarian: fennhéjázó — having excessive pride
  • Hungarian: gőgös — having excessive pride
  • Hungarian: rátarti — having excessive pride
  • Hungarian: felfuvalkodott — having excessive pride
  • Hungarian: fölényes — having excessive pride
  • Hungarian: nagyképű — having excessive pride
  • Icelandic: hrokafullur — having excessive pride
  • Ido: aroganta — having excessive pride
  • Indonesian: sombong — having excessive pride
  • Interlingua: arrogante — having excessive pride
  • Irish: ainteann — having excessive pride
  • Irish: anuaibhreach — having excessive pride
  • Irish: anuallach — having excessive pride
  • Irish: béalteann — having excessive pride
  • Irish: borrach — having excessive pride
  • Irish: díomasach — having excessive pride
  • Irish: dí-umhal — having excessive pride
  • Irish: foruallach — having excessive pride
  • Irish: iarlaitheach — having excessive pride
  • Irish: iomarcach — having excessive pride
  • Irish: mustrach — having excessive pride
  • Irish: sotalach — having excessive pride
  • Irish: teaspúil — having excessive pride
  • Irish: tóstalach — having excessive pride
  • Irish: uaibhreach — having excessive pride
  • Italian: arrogante — having excessive pride
  • Japanese: 傲慢な (gōman na) — having excessive pride
  • Kapampangan: mapangaya — having excessive pride
  • Kazakh: тәкаппар (täkappar) — having excessive pride
  • Kazakh: менмен (menmen) — having excessive pride
  • Khmer: កំអួក (kɑmʼuək) — having excessive pride
  • Khmer: ក្រអឺត (krɑɑʼəɨt) — having excessive pride
  • Korean: 오만하다 (omanhada) — having excessive pride
  • Korean: 거만하다 (geomanhada) — having excessive pride
  • Kyrgyz: текебер (tekeber) — having excessive pride
  • Latin: arrogans — having excessive pride
  • Latin: superbus — having excessive pride
  • Latvian: augstprātīgs — having excessive pride
  • Latvian: iedomīgs — having excessive pride
  • Latvian: uzpūtīgs — having excessive pride
  • Luxembourgish: arrogant — having excessive pride
  • Macedonian: на́дмен (nádmen) — having excessive pride
  • Macedonian: воо́бразен (voóbrazen) — having excessive pride
  • Macedonian: го́рделив (górdeliv) — having excessive pride
  • Macedonian: арога́нтен (arogánten) — having excessive pride
  • Macedonian: на́перчен (náperčen) — having excessive pride
  • Macedonian: др́зок (dŕzok) — having excessive pride
  • Maltese: mkabbar — having excessive pride
  • Māori: whakahīhī — having excessive pride
  • Māori: whakatuanui — having excessive pride
  • Māori: whakatarapī — having excessive pride
  • Norman: rupé — having excessive pride
  • Norwegian: arrogant — having excessive pride
  • Persian: خودبین (xodbin) — having excessive pride
  • Persian: برمنش (barmaneš) — having excessive pride
  • Persian: مغرور (maġrur) — having excessive pride
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: waawaha — having excessive pride
  • Plautdietsch: huachnäsich — having excessive pride
  • Polish: arogancki — having excessive pride
  • Portuguese: arrogante — having excessive pride
  • Romanian: arogant — having excessive pride
  • Russian: надме́нный (nadménnyj) — having excessive pride
  • Russian: высокоме́рный (vysokomérnyj) — having excessive pride
  • Russian: тщесла́вный (tščeslávnyj) — having excessive pride
  • Russian: кичли́вый (kičlívyj) — having excessive pride
  • Russian: гордели́вый (gordelívyj) — having excessive pride
  • Russian: спеси́вый (spesívyj) — having excessive pride
  • Russian: чванли́вый (čvanlívyj) — having excessive pride
  • Russian: зано́счивый (zanósčivyj) — having excessive pride
  • Sanskrit: अभिमानिन् (abhimānin) — having excessive pride
  • Scottish Gaelic: uaibhreach — having excessive pride
  • Scottish Gaelic: uailleach — having excessive pride
  • Serbo-Croatian: арога̀нтан — having excessive pride
  • Serbo-Croatian: arogàntan — having excessive pride
  • Slovak: arogantný — having excessive pride
  • Slovene: aroganten — having excessive pride
  • Spanish: arrogante — having excessive pride
  • Spanish: soberbio — having excessive pride
  • Spanish: altivo — having excessive pride
  • Spanish: altanero — having excessive pride
  • Spanish: creído — having excessive pride
  • Spanish: presumido — having excessive pride
  • Spanish: comparón — having excessive pride
  • Spanish: comemierda — having excessive pride
  • Spanish: plantillero — having excessive pride
  • Sundanese: bedegong — having excessive pride
  • Swedish: arrogant — having excessive pride
  • Tajik: мағрур (maġrur) — having excessive pride
  • Tajik: мутакаббир (mutakabbir) — having excessive pride
  • Tamil: திமிர் (timir) — having excessive pride
  • Tamil: இறுமாப்பு (iṟumāppu) — having excessive pride
  • Tamil: அகங்காரம் (akaṅkāram) — having excessive pride
  • Tamil: ஆணவம் (āṇavam) — having excessive pride
  • Tamil: அகந்தை (akantai) — having excessive pride
  • Tamil: கர்வம் (karvam) — having excessive pride
  • Tamil: செருக்கு (cerukku) — having excessive pride
  • Tamil: மமதை (mamatai) — having excessive pride
  • Tamil: கொழுப்பு (koḻuppu) — having excessive pride
  • Tamil: தற்பெருமை (taṟperumai) — having excessive pride
  • Thai: หยิ่ง (yìng) — having excessive pride
  • Thai: เย่อหยิ่ง — having excessive pride
  • Tocharian B: śarware — having excessive pride
  • Turkish: kibirli — having excessive pride
  • Turkish: tekebbürlü — having excessive pride
  • Ottoman Turkish: تكبرلو (tekebbürlü) — having excessive pride
  • Ottoman Turkish: بورونلو (burunlu) — having excessive pride
  • Ukrainian: пиха́тий (pyxátyj) — having excessive pride
  • Ukrainian: зарозумі́лий (zarozumílyj) — having excessive pride
  • Ukrainian: гордови́тий (hordovýtyj) — having excessive pride
  • Ukrainian: пихли́вий (pyxlývyj) — having excessive pride
  • Ukrainian: гонори́стий (honorýstyj) — having excessive pride
  • Ukrainian: бундю́чний (bundjúčnyj) — having excessive pride
  • Ukrainian: гоноро́витий (honoróvytyj) — having excessive pride
  • Uyghur: تەكەببۇر (tekebbur) — having excessive pride
  • Uyghur: ھاكاۋۇر (hakawur) — having excessive pride
  • Uzbek: takabbur — having excessive pride
  • Uzbek: magʻrur — having excessive pride
  • Uzbek: manman — having excessive pride
  • Uzbek: mutakabbir — having excessive pride
  • Vietnamese: kiêu — having excessive pride
  • Vietnamese: kiêu ngạo — having excessive pride
  • Vietnamese: kiêu căng — having excessive pride
  • Vietnamese: ngạo mạn — having excessive pride
  • Vietnamese: kênh kiệu — having excessive pride
  • Vietnamese: ngạo nghễ — having excessive pride
  • Welsh: trahaus — having excessive pride