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snooty

adj · name · noun · 6 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.

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Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈsnuːti/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • General-American: /ˈsnuti/
  • General-American: [-ɾi]
  • General-American: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -uːti
  • CMU ARPABET: S N UW1 T IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Haughty, pompous, snobbish; inclined to turn up one's nose.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: informal

Examples

  • Sir Sydney was an arrogant, snooty, bigoted prig, so it was with some satisfaction that I wrote out his parking ticket.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: airy, arrogant, chesty, authoritarian, biggity, big-headed, blustery, boastful, lordly, bombastic, buggish, cocky, conceited, disdainful, domineering, egotistical, entitled, flatulent, flaunting, full of oneself, glorious, grandiose, hankty, haught, haughty, haut, high-handed, high-hat, high and mighty, highfalutin, hoity-toity, holier-than-thou, hubristic, hubristical, imperious, inflated, insolent, la-di-da, orgulous, ostentatious, overbearing, overweening, pompous, presumptuous, pretentious, priggish, puffed up, sanctimonious, self-important, snobbish, snooty, snotty, stout, stuck up, supercilious, thrasonic, thrasonical, toploftical, toplofty, tumid, turgid, uppish, uppity, uppy, upstage, vain

Antonyms: abased, demure, diffident, humble, humble-hearted, low, lowly, meek, mild, modest, poor, resigned, self-effacing, unpretentious, verecund

2

adj

Meaning 2

Of an event, a thing, etc.: elite, exclusive.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: broadly, informal

Examples

  • Her parties were snooty affairs; custom-designed cocktail dresses that cost more than a decent luxury car were de rigueur.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

adj

Meaning 3

Easily angered or irritated; irritable, short-tempered.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: broadly, informal, uncommon

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

name

Meaning 4

A surname.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

Synonym of snoot (“an elitist or snobbish person”).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: informal, uncommon

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: snoot

Antonyms: none provided

6

adjective satellite

Meaning 6

(used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant-Laurent Le Sage

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • a snotty little scion of a degenerate family
  • they're snobs--stuck-up and uppity and persnickety

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: bigheaded, persnickety, snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up, too big for one's breeches, uppish

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

The adjective is derived from snoot (“(UK, dialectal, and slang) snout; nose”) + -y (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘having the quality of’), probably referring to a snobbish person often having their nose in the air (that is, acting disdainfully towards others). Snoot is a dialectal variant of snout. The noun is derived from the adjective.

Across languages

Translations

17 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: сно́бски (snóbski) — haughty, pompous, snobbish — see also haughty, pompous, snobbish
  • Bulgarian: високоме́рен (visokoméren) — haughty, pompous, snobbish — see also haughty, pompous, snobbish
  • Czech: nafoukaný — haughty, pompous, snobbish — see also haughty, pompous, snobbish
  • Czech: nadutý — haughty, pompous, snobbish — see also haughty, pompous, snobbish
  • Czech: namyšlený — haughty, pompous, snobbish — see also haughty, pompous, snobbish
  • Czech: snobský — haughty, pompous, snobbish — see also haughty, pompous, snobbish
  • Finnish: koppava — haughty, pompous, snobbish — see also haughty, pompous, snobbish
  • Finnish: leuhka — haughty, pompous, snobbish — see also haughty, pompous, snobbish
  • German: hochnäsig — haughty, pompous, snobbish — see also haughty, pompous, snobbish
  • Greek: ακατάδεκτος (akatádektos) — haughty, pompous, snobbish — see also haughty, pompous, snobbish
  • Māori: tū te ihu — haughty, pompous, snobbish — see also haughty, pompous, snobbish
  • Portuguese: esnobe — haughty, pompous, snobbish — see also haughty, pompous, snobbish
  • Portuguese: presunçoso — haughty, pompous, snobbish — see also haughty, pompous, snobbish
  • Russian: презри́тельный (prezrítelʹnyj) — haughty, pompous, snobbish — see also haughty, pompous, snobbish
  • Russian: высокоме́рный (vysokomérnyj) — haughty, pompous, snobbish — see also haughty, pompous, snobbish
  • Spanish: estirado — haughty, pompous, snobbish — see also haughty, pompous, snobbish
  • Spanish: presuntuoso — haughty, pompous, snobbish — see also haughty, pompous, snobbish