supercilious
super- "above" + second element akin to cilium "eyelid,"
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/icons/point.icon PROUD, ARROGANT, HAUGHTY, LORDLY, INSOLENT, OVERBEARING, SUPERCILIOUS, DISDAINFUL mean showing scorn for inferiors.
PROUD may suggest an assumed superiority or loftiness.
e.g. too proud to take charity
ARROGANT implies a claiming for oneself of more consideration or importance than is warranted.
e.g. a conceited and arrogant executive
HAUGHTY suggests a consciousness of superior birth or position.
e.g. a haughty aristocrat
LORDLY implies pomposity or an arrogant display of power.
e.g. a lordly condescension
INSOLENT implies contemptuous haughtiness.
e.g. ignored by an insolent waiter
OVERBEARING suggests a tyrannical manner or an intolerable insolence.
e.g. an overbearing supervisor
SUPERCILIOUS implies a cool, patronizing haughtiness.
e.g. an aloof and supercilious manner
DISDAINFUL suggests a more active and openly scornful superciliousness.
e.g. disdainful of their social inferiors
adjective
behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others:
｟非難して｠ 〈人･態度などが〉人を見下すような, 偉そうな, 横柄な(haughty)
e.g. a supercilious lady's maid.
DERIVATIVES
superciliously |ˌso͞opərˈsilēəslē| adverb
superciliousness |ˌso͞opərˈsilēəsnəs| noun
ORIGIN
early 16th century: from Latin superciliosus ‘haughty’, from supercilium ‘eyebrow’.