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HIGH-AND-MIGHTY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does high-and-mighty mean?
• HIGH-AND-MIGHTY (adjective)
The adjective HIGH-AND-MIGHTY has 1 sense:
1. offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power
Familiarity information: HIGH-AND-MIGHTY used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power
Synonyms:
autocratic; bossy; dominating; high-and-mighty; magisterial; peremptory
Context example:
a swaggering peremptory manner
Similar:
domineering (tending to domineer)
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