Adjective: arrogant
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more arrogant |
| Superlative | most arrogant |
Sample Sentences
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sound arrogant
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an arrogant assumption
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seem arrogant to others
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He was too arrogant to admit his mistake.
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Her arrogant attitude alienated the team.
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The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions. [1878, Friedrich Nietzsche, Wanting to be Loved:]
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Call me a braggart, call me arrogant. People at ABC (and elsewhere) have called me worse. But when you need the job done on deadline, you’ll call me. [1987, Sam Donaldson, Hold On, Mr President!:]
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Transport Minister Marples, meanwhile, used arrogant rhetoric and showed his personal contempt for railways when confirming in Parliament that a third of the network was to be closed even before the survey results were known. [2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 53:]
Adjectives inflected like arrogant
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle English arrogaunt, from Old French arrogant, from Latin arrogāns, present active participle of arrogō. See: Latin Adjectives '
arrogāns'.
Verbs referencing "arrogant"
Finnish Adjectives
arrogantti.