Synonyms for snobbish
- adjective
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
2. Snooty
snooty informal, pretentious, arrogant, haughty, supercilious, pompous, uppity, smug, vain, high-hat, uppish, hankty, hoity-toity, disdainful, conceited, snotty, overbearing, highfalutin, presumptuous, insolent, overweening, upstage
Other
Definitions
- adj. 1
Having the property of being a snob; arrogant and pretentious; smugly superior or dismissive of perceived inferiors.
Example sentences
- arrogant I don't need the validation of an arrogant person.
- pretentious I now have the ability to be a pretentious prick.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| snobbish | steady | |
| arrogant | rising | |
| pretentious | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- vain1, smug1
- 6 letters
- snobby2, snooty2, uppity3, snotty2, clubby2, uppish, hankty
- 7 letters
- pompous2, haughty2, upstage2
- 8 letters
- arrogant3, insolent3, clannish2, cliquish
- 9 letters
- conceited3
- 10 letters
- disdainful3, snobbistic
- 11 letters
- pretentious3, overbearing4, overweening, highfalutin4
- 12 letters
- presumptuous4, supercilious5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (snobby2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- snob
- Italiano
- snobistico