'Supercilious' definitions:
Definition of 'supercilious'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer [syn: disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering]
adjective
Definition of 'Supercilious'
From: GCIDE
- Supercilious \Su`per*cil"i*ous\, a. [L. superciliosus, fr. supercilium an eyebrow, pride; super over, + cilium an eyelid; probably akin to celare to conceal. Cf. Conceal.] Lofty with pride; haughty; dictatorial; overbearing; arrogant; as, a supercilious officer; asupercilious air; supercilious behavior. -- {Su`per*cil"i*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Su`per*cil"i*ous*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'supercilious'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- arrogant,
- cavalier,
- clannish,
- cliquish,
- condescending,
- contemptuous,
- contumelious,
- disdainful,
- dismissive,
- exclusive,
- haughty,
- high and mighty,
- high-and-mighty,
- highfalutin,
- hoity-toity,
- insolent,
- la-di-da,
- lofty,
- lordly,
- overbearing,
- patronizing,
- pompous,
- pretentious,
- scornful,
- sneering,
- sniffy,
- snippy,
- snobbish,
- snobby,
- snooty,
- snotty,
- snuffy,
- stuck-up,
- stuffy,
- superior,
- toploftical,
- toplofty,
- uppish,
- uppity,
- withering