Synonyms for cavalier
- adjective
- noun
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Disdainful — supercilious
disdainful, haughty, high-handed, arrogant, insolent, brusque, supercilious, curt, overbearing, proud, contemptuous, overweening, lordly, domineering, contumelious formal dated
2. Dismissive — lacking the proper care or concern for something important, reckless, rash, high-handed
3. Impertinent
impertinent, pert, flippant, malapert dated
Other
Noun
1. Chevalier
Other
Definitions
- adj. 1
Lacking the proper care or concern for something important, reckless, rash, high-handed.
- adj. 2
Supercilious.
- adj. 3
High-spirited.
- n. 1
A military man serving on horse, (chiefly) early modern cavalry officers who had abandoned the heavy armor of medieval knights.
Related words
- Word family
- cavalierly
- Is a kind of
- horseman
Forms
- Plural
- cavaliers → chevaliers, knights, horsemen, equestrians…
Example sentences
- arrogant I don't need the validation of an arrogant person.
- haughty That haughty girl thinks she's better than everyone.
- disdainful Dan isn't an arrogant and disdainful guy.
- delinquent The policeman was shot in the leg by a delinquent.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| cavalier | rising | |
| arrogant | rising | |
| haughty | rising | |
| disdainful | rising | |
| delinquent | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- curt1, pert1
- 5 letters
- proud1
- 6 letters
- knight1, lordly2
- 7 letters
- haughty2, brusque1
- 8 letters
- arrogant3, horseman2, royalist3, insolent3, flippant2, malapert
- 9 letters
- chevalier3
- 10 letters
- equestrian4, delinquent3, dismissive3, nonchalant3, disdainful3
- 11 letters
- overbearing4, domineering4, impertinent4, overweening
- 12 letters
- contemptuous4, supercilious5, contumelious
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (lordly2 = 2 syllables).