HIGH AND MIGHTY

Definition: HIGH AND MIGHTY

HIGH AND MIGHTY

1. Arrogant; overbearing. [Colloq.]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Insolence

Adjective: insolent, haughty, arrogant, imperious, magisterial, dictatorial, arbitrary; high-handed, high and mighty; contumelious, supercilious, overbearing, intolerant, domineering, overweening, high-flown.

Pride

Supercilious, disdainful, bumptious, magisterial, imperious, high and mighty, overweening, consequential; arrogant; unblushing.

You think you're so high and mighty, when really it's only abomniable conceit. (A Room with a View; writing credit: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. based on the novel by E.M. Forster.)

They think they're so high and mighty, just because they never got caught driving without pants. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

My Lady High and Mighty (1915)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Say she shall be a high and mighty queen.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "HIGH AND MIGHTY": be high and mighty. Additional references.

Bulgarian 

високомерен (airy, cavalier, domineering, grand, imperious, lofty, lordly, overweening, proud, snooty, snuffy, stiff necked, top-lofty), надменен (airy, aloof, arrogant, assuming, assumptive, contemptuous, cool, disdainful, haughty, high, imperious, lofty, offhand, offish, overbearing, overweening, prideful, proud, proud-stomached, remote, scornful, stand offish, stiff, stuck up, sublime, supercilious, superior, top-lofty, uppish). (various references)

Chinese 

巋 (hilly). (various references)

Czech

povýšenecký (conceited, imperious), namyšlený, domýšlivý (arrogant, assuming, conceited, haughty, perky, pretentious, small beer, smug, snotty, uppish, upstage, vain). (various references)

Finnish

ylpeä (haughty, proud, stuck-up), pöyhkeä (conceited, stuck-up, swanky), mahtaileva (domineering), koppava (haughty), kopeileva (arrogant). (various references)

French

arrogant. (various references)

Greek 

οι υψηλά ιστάμενοι. (various references)

Hebrew 

י�"יר (arrogant, conceited, haughty, overweening, pompous, popinjay, presumptuous, snob, snooty, snotty, supercilious, swollen), שתלט� י (bossy, dominant, domineering, imperious, masterful, overbearing). (various references)

Hungarian

nagy és hatalmas, nagyzolóan beképzelt, dölyfös (assuming, haughty, imperious, prideful, supercilious). (various references)

Pig Latin

ighhay anday ightymay

Romanian

arogant (arrogant, arrogantly, assuming, assumptive, haughtily, haughty, lordly, overbearing, overbearingly, overweening, perky, pretentious, supercilious). (various references)

Russian 

высокомерный (arrogant, assuming, cavalier, domineering, haughty, highbrow, insolent, overweening, proud-stomached, sniffy, snooty, stiff necked, stuck up, stuck-up, supercilious, tossy, uppity). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

svemoguć (almighty, omnipotent). (various references)

Spanish

altanero (arrogant, bumbling, haughty, lofty, pride, proud, snooty, snuffy, stuck up, supercilious, upstage). (various references)

Swedish

grötmyndig (pompous). (various references)

Turkish

tepeden bakan (haughty, high hat, holier-than-thou, self-righteous, snooty, supercilious), kurumlu (haughty, pontifical, sooty). (various references)

Ukrainian

гордовитий (arrogant, disdainful, hoity toity, huffish, overly, presumptuous, proud, proud-hearted, sublime, supercilious), владний (arbitrary, authoritarian, authoritative, dictatorial, high handed, imperative, imperious, magisterial, masterful, overbearing), зарозумілий (arrogant, audacious, contemptuous, dogmatic, dogmatical, domineering, highbrow, insolent, lordly, overbearing, overly, overweening, proud, self-conceited, self-explanatory, self-important, snooty, stately, stiff necked, stuck up, topping, upstage). (various references)

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