Synonyms for uppity
- adjective
All synonyms
Adjective
1. Hoity-toity — presumptuous, above oneself, self-important; arrogant, snobbish, haughty
stuck-up, hoity-toity informal, arrogant, haughty, pompous, overweening, supercilious, disdainful, highfalutin informal, insolent, presumptuous, overbearing, domineering, hubristic, upstage, toplofty, uppish, uppy, smug, cocky, pretentious, egotistical
Definitions
- adj. 1
Presumptuous, above oneself, self-important; arrogant, snobbish, haughty.
Related words
- Word family
- uppityness
- Other spellings
- uppedy uppety
Example sentences
- arrogant I don't need the validation of an arrogant person.
- pompous It's much too pompous for such a trivial thing.
- haughty That haughty girl thinks she's better than everyone.
By length
- 4 letters
- smug1, uppy
- 5 letters
- cocky2
- 6 letters
- uppish
- 7 letters
- pompous2, haughty2, upstage2
- 8 letters
- arrogant3, insolent3, toplofty
- 9 letters
- hubristic
- 10 letters
- disdainful3
- 11 letters
- pretentious3, overbearing4, egotistical5, domineering4, overweening, highfalutin4
- 12 letters
- presumptuous4, supercilious5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (cocky2 = 2 syllables).