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Definition: Arrogance |
ArroganceNoun1. Overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "arrogance" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Etymology: Arrogance \Ar"ro*gance\, noun. [French expression, from the Latin expression arrogantia, from arrogans. See Arrogant.]. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In Christian dogma, pride (or vanity) is excessive belief in one's own abilities, that interferes with the individual's recognition of the grace of God. It has been called the sin from which all others arise. Pride is listed as one of the Seven Deadly Sins.In English, the term "pride" also has a more positive sense referring to self-respect, refusal to be humiliated, and joy in one's accomplishments. Some languages distinguish between the two senses of pride; in French, self-respect is fierté and vanity is orgueuil.
Even outside a religious environment, pride may constitute a weakness in an individual, since somebody who is proud is likely to be far more affected by public humiliation or defeat than somebody who is humble.
See also: gay pride.
Arrogance is a particularly aggressive form of pride. An arrogant person is not only exceedingly confident in their own ability and value, but actively seeks to belittle other, "lesser", people in order to demonstrate it.
See also Narcissism.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pride."
Synonyms: ArroganceSynonyms: haughtiness (n), highhandedness (n), lordliness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Insolence | Noun: insolence; haughtiness; Adjective: arrogance, airs; overbearance; domineering; Verb: tyranny. |
Pride | Pride; haughtiness; Adjective: high notions, hauteur; vainglory, crest; arrogance; (assumption). |
Severity | Noun: severity; strictness, harshness; Adjective: rigor, stringency, austerity; inclemency; (pitilessness) a; arrogance; precisianism. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Arrogance |
| English words defined with "arrogance": Arrogancy, Arrogantness, Arrogative ♦ condescension ♦ disdainfulness ♦ Hauteur ♦ Imperiousnes ♦ puff up ♦ superciliousness, Surquidry, swell. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "arrogance": Barbeliots, Bumbledom. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "arrogance": Fastidious. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Arrogance" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (arrogance, arrogancy, assumption, assurance, bighead, coxcombry, delusion, ego, haughtiness, lordliness, perkiness, pride, superciliousness). |
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Screenplays | What arrogance to think you could ever understand my intentions (Air Force One; writing credit: Andrew W. Marlowe) Your arrogance will spell your demise, Raziel (Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver II; writing credit: Amy Hennig) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Confucius | It is harder to be poor without murmuring than rich without arrogance. |
Edmund Burke | The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth. |
Frank Lloyd Wright | Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change. |
Friedrich Nietzsche | Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Botswana | While there remains a high tolerance for conflict of interest in government/private sector interaction, foreign investor complaints generally focus on the reputed inefficiency, unresponsiveness, and even arrogance of mid to low-level bureaucrats in government. (references) |
Human Rights | Iran | Indictments often lack clarity and include undefined offenses such as "antirevolutionary behavior," "moral corruption," and "siding with global arrogance." Defendants do not have the right to confront their accusers. (references) |
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Rush Limbaugh | Remember, two of the many characteristics of the dominant media culture today are arrogance and superiority, by design. |
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Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Clean out the arrogance and the big egos. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | As long as I am President we will continue to lead in support of freedom everywhere, not out of arrogance and not out of altruism, but for the safety and security of our children. |
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| "Arrogance" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.60% of the time. "Arrogance" is used about 497 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.6% | 495 | 12,127 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.4% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 497 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "arrogance": an air of arrogance ♦ with arrogance. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
arrogance | 33 |
american arrogance | 4 |
arrogance myleague.com | 4 |
arrogance quote | 3 |
arrogance power | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "arrogance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | arrogancë (haughtiness, hubris), mendjemadhësi (conceit, haughtiness, hauteur, presumption), mburrje (bluster, boast, bounce, brag, braggery, bravado, fanfaronade, gasconade, hokum, jactation, jactitation, puff, rodomontade, splurge, swank, talk big, vainglory, vaunt), kryelartësi (hauteur, hubris, pride), krenari (amour propre, loftiness, pride). (various references) | |
Arabic | غطرسة (assumption, haughtiness, insolence, lordliness, perkiness, pride, strut, superciliousness), غرور (bighead, conceit, delusion, ego, egoism, egotism, pretension, pride, sufficiency, vanity), تيه (labyrinth, pride, swagger, vainglory), تكبر (be arrogant, look big, lordliness, pride, snobbery, snootiness, snooty, superciliousness, swank, vanity), عنجهية, عجرفي, عجرفة (haughtiness, insolence, lordliness, smugness, snobbery, snootiness). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | високомерие (airiness, hubris, pride), нахалство (cheek, contumely, crust, face, front, gall, impertinence, insolence, lip, mouth, neck, nerve, presumption, sauciness, temerity, uppishness), надменност (assumption, disdain, distance, haughtiness, hauteur, pride, stiffness, swelled head, uppishness), арогантност (assumption, insolence, presumption), безочливост (assuredness, effrontery, immodesty, impudence, sauciness), дързост (assumption, audacity, cheek, contumely, daring, forwardness, hardihood, hardiness, impudence, intrepidity, nerve, pluck, sauce, temerity, uppishness). (various references) | |
Chinese | 驕氣 , 傲慢 (Arrogant, Boastful, Boastfulness, Contemptuous, haughty, IMMODEST, insolent, Overbearing). (various references) | |
Czech | arogance, nadutost (haughtiness, inflation, pride), domýšlivost (cockiness, conceit, haughtiness, self-importance, uppishness). (various references) | |
Dutch | arrogantie (assumingness, overbearingness, presumption, pretence), aanmatiging (assumingness, high-handedness, overbearingness, presumption, pretence). (various references) | |
Esperanto | aroganteco (assumingness, overbearingness, presumption), malmodesteco (assumingness, high-handedness, presumption, pretence). (various references) | |
Farsi | نخوت , گستاخی (Assurance, Audacity, Bronze, Effrontery, Gall, Impertinence, Impudence, Indecency, Insolence, Presumption), گردنفرازی , تکبر (Height, Insolence, Pride, Ruffe), خودبینی (Assumption, Conceit, Insolence, Vanity), شدت عمل (Force). (various references) | |
Finnish | ylimielisyys (haughtiness, presumptuousness), röyhkeys (impudence, insolence), pöyhkeys (conceit, haughtiness), kopeus (haughtiness), kopeilu (haughtiness). (various references) | |
French | arrogance (arrogancy), fierté. (various references) | |
German | Hochmut (haughtiness, hauteur, pride), Arroganz (arrogancy, lordliness), Anmaßung (arrogation, assertiveness, hubris, insolence, presumption, presumptuousness, pretension, usurpation). (various references) | |
Greek | υπεροψία (hauteur, pride, superciliousness, superiority), αλαζονεία (conceit, haughtiness, presumption, pride, uppishness, uppity). (various references) | |
Hebrew | י"ירות (conceit, haughtiness, pride, swagger, vainness), י"ר" (haughtiness, pride), שחץ (haughtiness, pride), שחצ ות (boastfulness, conceitedness, haughtiness, vanity), עתק (haughtiness, pride, wantonness), זחות (haughtiness), "ת'אות (boasting), "שתררות (prevalence, taking control), "רמת ראש (haughtiness), "סתוללות (oppression, trampling), 'א" (boastful, boastfulness, conceit, conceited, haughtiness, haughty, overbearing, pride, proud), '"לות (dignity, greatness, haughtiness), ר"ב (boastfulness, conceit, haughtiness). (various references) | |
Hungarian | fennhéjázás (haughtiness, hauteur, high stomach, perkiness, proud stomach), arrogancia (hubris, pridefulness), önteltség (complacence, complacency, conceit, confidence, coxcombry, egotism, false pride, loftiness, perkiness, self satisfaction, self sufficiency, self-confidence, self-importance). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kesombongan (conceit, haughtiness, vanity), kepongahan, kecongkakan (baughtiness, pride), keangkuhan (arrogancy, vanity). (various references) | |
Italian | arroganza (arrogation, haughtiness, overbearance), alterigia (haughtiness, hauteur, hubris). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 驕慢 , 驕傲 (pride), 横柄 (haughtiness, insolence), 倨傲 (pride), 傍若無人 (audacity, defiance, insolence, outrageously as though there were no one around, overbearing), 傲慢 (haughtiness, hubris, insolence, pride), 傲岸無礼 , 傲岸不遜 , 傲倨 , 不遜 (disrespect, insolence). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おうへい (haughtiness, insolence), きょうま", きょう"う (champion, collation, contend with, crying aloud, examining and comparing, pride, quarrel, veteran), きょ"う (pride), ぼうじゃくぶじ" (audacity, defiance, insolence, outrageously as though there were no one around, overbearing), ふそ" (disrespect, insolence), "うが"ぶれい, "うが"ふそ", "うきょ, "うま" (arrogant, conceited, haughtiness, hubris, insolence, pride, proud). (various references) | |
Korean | 거만. (various references) | |
Manx | sonnaase (conceit, indignation), mooaralys (ambition, boastfulness, dignity, haughtiness, ostentation, pomp, vanity), kione-ardys (exaltation, haughtiness, presumption, presumptuousness, pride, superciliousness), ard-wannalys (haughtiness). (various references) | |
Norwegian | hovmod. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arroganceay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | arrogância (arrogation, assumingness, assurance, audacity, bigness, loftiness, morgue, presumption, pride, self-assertion, swank). (various references) | |
Romanian | aroganţã (assumption, assurance, haughtiness, pride, rashness, side), morgã (dead house, morgue, mortuary, pomposity), fudulie (bumptiousness, haughtiness, swagger), falã (celebrity, glory, haughtiness, pride), înfumurare (pragmatism, pride, self esteem, self-importance, self-opinion, vanity). (various references) | |
Russian | высокомерие (haughtiness, hauteur, hubris, lifemanship, self-assumption). (various references) | |
Scottish | tostal, toichiosdal. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | arogancija, oholost (disdain, haughtiness, hauteur, hubris, morgue, snoot, superciliousness, swelled head), drskost (audaciousness, brash, effrontery, forwardness, impertinence, impudence, lip, nerve, petulance, presumption, temerity). (various references) | |
Spanish | arrogancia (arrogancy, haughtiness, lordliness, pride, superciliousness), altanería (haughtiness, hauteur, loftiness), soberbia (arrogancy, pride), pretensión (affectation, aspiration, claim, offer, offer of marriage, offer of parriage, presumption, pretence, pretense, pretension, pretentiousness, proposal), fanfarria (arrogancy, fanfare), envalentonamiento (arrogancy, dutch courage). (various references) | |
Swedish | högmod (hauteur, pride), arrogans (haughtiness), övermod (bravado, hubris, presumption, recklessness). (various references) | |
Thai | ความเย่อหยิ่ง (arrogancy). (various references) | |
Turkish | kibirlilik (haughtiness, hoity toity, lordliness, pride, stuffiness), kibir (conceit, disdain, haughtiness, hauteur, hubris, importance, loftiness, pride, snootiness, vainness, vanity), kendini beğenme (conceit, self esteem, superiority), küstahlık (assuredness, audaciousness, audacity, back chat, backchat, boldness, brass, cheek, cheekiness, chutzpa, chutzpah, effrontery, flippancy, forwardness, gall, hardihood, hardiness, impertinence, insolence, lip, pertness, presumption, temerity), haddini bilmeme. (various references) | |
Turkmen | tekepbirlik (haughtiness), gedemlik. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | самовпевненість (aplomb, assuming, assumption, assuredness, confidence, outrecuidance, overconfidence, presumption, self confidence, self sufficiency, self-assertion), гордовитість, зарозумілість (egotism, haughtiness, loftiness, lordliness, outrecuidance, self esteem, self-conceit, self-importance), пиха (conceit, crest, vainglory). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vẻ ngạo mạn, tính kiêu ngạo (assumption, conceit), tính kiêu căng (haughtiness, high-mindedness, huffiness, pretentiousness, toploftiness). (various references) | |
Welsh | trahauster (presumption), traha (presumption), balchder (dignity, glory, pride, vanity). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | arrogantia, arrogantiam, contumacia, flatus, superbia, superbiae, superbiam, superbias, superbiis, supercilia, supercilio, supercilium. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | byldu, ofermod, ricceter. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 8, Verse 13 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | FoboV kuriou misei adikian ubrin te kai uperhfanian kai odouV ponhrwn memishka de egw diestrammenaV odouV kakwn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Timor Domini odit malum arrogantiam et superbiam et viam pravam et os bilingue detestor |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | The drede of the Lord hateth euel; enhauncing, and pride, and the shreude weie, and the mouth of the twisil tunge I wlate. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | The fear of the Lord is seen in hating evil: pride, a high opinion of oneself, the evil way, and the false tongue, are unpleasing to me. |
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| Language | Proverbs Chapter 8, Verse 13 |
| Cebuano | Ang pagkahadlok kang Jehova maoy pagdumot sa dautan: Ang pagkagarboso, ug pagkamapahitas-on, ug ang dautan nga dalan, Ug ang mabinalit-aron nga baba maoy akong ginadumtan. |
| Croatian | Strah Gospodnji mržnja je na zlo. Oholost, samodostatnost, put zloæe i usta puna laži - to ja mrzim. |
| Danish | HERRENs Frygt er Had til det onde. Jeg hader Hovmod og Stolthed, den onde Vej og den falske Mund. |
| Dutch | De vreze des HEEREN is, te haten het kwade, de hovaardigheid, en den hoogmoed, en den kwaden weg; Ik haat ook den mond der verkeerdheden. |
| Finnish | Herran pelko on pahan vihaamista. Kopeutta ja ylpeyttä, pahaa tietä ja kavalaa suuta minä vihaan. |
| French | La crainte de l`Éternel, c`est la haine du mal; L`arrogance et l`orgueil, la voie du mal, Et la bouche perverse, voil ce que je hais. |
| German | Die Furcht des HERRN haßt das Arge, die Hoffart, den Hochmut und bösen Weg; und ich bin feind dem verkehrten Mund. |
| Hungarian | Az Úrnak félelme a gonosznak gyûlölése; a kevélységet és felfuvalkodást és a gonosz útat, és az álnok szájat gyûlölöm. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Menghormati TUHAN berarti membenci kejahatan; aku tidak menyukai kesombongan dan keangkuhan. Aku benci tingkah laku yang jahat dan kata-kata tipu muslihat. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Adapun peri takut akan Tuhan, ia itu membenci akan kejahatan, akan congkak dan kemegahan dan segala jalan yang jahat; maka sebab itu bencilah aku akan mulut yang mengadakan bencana. |
| Italian | Temere il Signore è odiare il male: io detesto la superbia, l'arroganza, la cattiva condotta e la bocca perversa. |
| Maori | Ko te wehi ki a Ihowa koia tena ko te kino ki te he: e kino ana ahau ki te whakapehapeha, ki te whakakake, ki te ara he, ki te mangai whanoke. |
| Norwegian | Å frykte Herren er å hate ondt; stolthet og overmot, ond ferd og en falsk munn hater jeg. |
| Portuguese | O temor do Senhor é odiar o mal; a soberba, e a arrogância, e o mau caminho, e a boca perversa, eu os odeio. |
| Rumanian | Frica de Domnul este urkrea rqului; trufia wi mkndria, purtarea rea wi gura... mincinoasq, iatq ce urqsc eu. |
| Russian | уФТБИ зПУ П"ЕОШ--ОЕОБЧЙ"ЕФШ ЪМП; ЗПТ"ПУФШ Й ЧЩУПЛПНЕТЙЕ Й ЪМПК ХФШ Й ЛПЧБТОЩЕ ХУФБ С ОЕОБЧЙЦХ. |
| Spanish | El temor de Jehovah es aborrecer el mal. Aborrezco la soberbia, la arrogancia, el mal camino y la boca perversa. |
| Swedish | Att frukta HERREN är att hata det onda; ja, högfärd, högmod, en ond vandel och en ränkfull mun, det hatar jag. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "arrogance": arrogances. (additional references) | |
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"Arrogance" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arogance, arragance, arrogans, arrogonce, Croyance. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "arrogance" (pronounced e"ruguns) |
| 5 | -u g u n s | elegance, extravagance. |
| 3 | -u n s | absence, abstinence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, abeyance, abhorrence, acquaintance, acquiescence, adherence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appearance, appliance, ascendance, assistance, assurance, attendance, audience, avoidance, balance, belligerence, beneficence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, condolence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterbalance, counterintelligence, credence, dalliance, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, deviance, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissidence, dissonance, distance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, entrance, equivalence, essence, evanescence, evidence, excellence, existence, expedience, experience, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, governance, grievance, guidance, hindrance, ignorance, imbalance, immanence, imminence, impatience, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incoherence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inexperience, inference, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, insolence, instance, insurance, intelligence, interdependence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nonviolence, nuisance, obedience, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, opulence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, parlance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, pestilence, petulance, phosphorescence, pittance, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preference, preponderance, prescience, presence, prevalence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, quintessence, radiance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, resemblance, residence, resilience, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, riddance, science, semblance, senescence, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, silence, submergence, subservience, subsidence, subsistence, substance, surveillance, sustenance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, transience, turbulence, unbalance, utterance, Valence, variance, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference, vigilance, violence, virulence. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-g-n-o-r-r" | |
-2 letters: acrogen, arrange, carnage, groaner. | |
-3 letters: agorae, angora, arcane, conger, cornea, corner, garcon, garner, garron, grocer, onager, orange, organa, rancor, ranger. | |
-4 letters: acorn, agone, agora, anear, anger, areca, arena, argon, cager, caner, canoe, carer, cargo, conga, conge, corer, crane, crone, crore, genoa, genro, gnarr, goner, grace, grana, groan, nacre, narco, ocean, ocrea, orang, organ. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-g-n-o-r-r" | |
+1 letter: arrogances. | |
+3 letters: micromanager. | |
+4 letters: micromanagers, oceanographer. | |
+5 letters: oceanographers, rebroadcasting. | |
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