Synonyms for supercilious
- adjective
Most common
All synonyms
Adjective
1. Haughty
haughty, disdainful, arrogant, overbearing, lordly, imperious, pompous, contemptuous, stuck-up, sneering, overweening, domineering, insolent, snide, pretentious, uppity, hoity-toity informal, presumptuous, highfalutin informal, prideful UK US CA, intolerant, swaggering
Other
Definitions
- adj. 1
Arrogantly superior; showing contemptuous indifference; haughty.
Example sentences
- arrogant I don't need the validation of an arrogant person.
- overbearing Tom can be overbearing, but he's a generous man.
- haughty That haughty girl thinks she's better than everyone.
- disdainful Dan isn't an arrogant and disdainful guy.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| supercilious | rising | |
| arrogant | rising | |
| overbearing | rising | |
| haughty | rising | |
| disdainful | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 5 letters
- snide1
- 6 letters
- uppity3, lordly2
- 7 letters
- pompous2, haughty2
- 8 letters
- arrogant3, insolent3, sneering2, prideful
- 9 letters
- imperious4
- 10 letters
- intolerant4, disdainful3, swaggering3
- 11 letters
- pretentious3, overbearing4, domineering4, overweening, highfalutin4
- 12 letters
- presumptuous4, contemptuous4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (uppity3 = 3 syllables).