ARROGANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does arrogance mean? 

• ARROGANCE (noun)
  The noun ARROGANCE has 1 sense:

1. overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors

  Familiarity information: ARROGANCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARROGANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

arrogance; haughtiness; hauteur; high-handedness; lordliness

Hypernyms ("arrogance" is a kind of...):

pride; superbia (unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem (personified as one of the deadly sins))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "arrogance"):

condescension; disdainfulness; superciliousness (the trait of displaying arrogance by patronizing those considered inferior)

contemptuousness (the manifestation of scorn and contempt)

hubris (overbearing pride or presumption)

domineeringness; imperiousness; overbearingness (the trait of being imperious and overbearing)

superiority (displaying a sense of being better than others)

snobbery; snobbishness; snobbism (the trait of condescending to those of lower social status)

Derivation:

arrogant (having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride)

 Context examples 

Mrs. Chillip does go so far as to say, pursued the meekest of little men, much encouraged, that what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And there was importance in his step and arrogance in his speech.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The fox, full of all kinds of arrogance, looked at the cat from head to foot, and for a long time did not know whether he would give any answer or not.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

They remained in a circle about him and his fire, displaying an arrogance of possession that shook his courage born of the morning light.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I should wish to see them very good friends, and would, on no account, authorise in my girls the smallest degree of arrogance towards their relation; but still they cannot be equals.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

With insufferable vanity had she believed herself in the secret of every body's feelings; with unpardonable arrogance proposed to arrange every body's destiny.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It had heretofore been my habit always to shrink from arrogance: received as I had been to-day, I should, a year ago, have resolved to quit Gateshead the very next morning; now, it was disclosed to me all at once that that would be a foolish plan.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She went on: From the very beginning—from the first moment, I may almost say—of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

He wanted to marry well, and having the arrogance to raise his eyes to her, pretended to be in love; but she was perfectly easy as to his not suffering any disappointment that need be cared for.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Mr. Churchill has pride; but his pride is nothing to his wife's: his is a quiet, indolent, gentlemanlike sort of pride that would harm nobody, and only make himself a little helpless and tiresome; but her pride is arrogance and insolence!

(Emma, by Jane Austen)