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Definition: Arrogant |
ArrogantAdjective1. Having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride; "an arrogant official"; "arrogant claims"; "chesty as a peacock". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "arrogant" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Etymology: Arrogant \Ar"ro*gant\, adjective. [French expression arrogant, from Latin expression arrogans, present participle of arrogare. See Arrogate.]. (references) |
Synonyms: ArrogantSynonyms: chesty (adj), self-important (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
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. |
Severity | Adjective: severe; strict, hard, harsh, dour, rigid, stiff, stern, rigorous, uncompromising, exacting, exigent, exigeant, inexorable, inflexible, obdurate, austere, hard-headed, hard-nosed, hard-shell, relentless, Spartan, Draconian, stringent, strait-laced, searching, unsparing, iron-handed, peremptory, absolute, positive, arbitrary, imperative; coercive; tyrannical, extortionate, grinding, withering, oppressive, inquisitorial; inclement; (ruthless) a; cruel; (malevolent); haughty, arrogant; precisian. |
Vanity | Self-satisfied, self-confident, self-sufficient, self-flattering, self-admiring, self-applauding, self-glorious, self-opinionated; entente; (wrongheaded); wise in one's own conceit, pragmatical, overwise, pretentious, priggish; egotistic, egotistical; soi-disant; (boastful); arrogant. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Arrogant |
| English words defined with "arrogant": arrogantly, assumption, at times ♦ bigheaded, bluster ♦ chesty, cocksure ♦ despotic, disdainful, doctrinaire, dogmatic, Dogmatic theology, dogmatical, dogmatist ♦ effrontery ♦ from time to time ♦ haughty, High and mighty, high horse, high-muck-a-muck, humble ♦ Lordlike, lordly ♦ now and again, now and then ♦ objectionably, obnoxiously, occasionally, offensively, on occasion, once in a while, overconfident, Overween, overweening ♦ persnickety, pooh-bah, positive, Presumer, presumption, presumptuousness, prideful, prig, priggishness, primness, purse-proud ♦ retiring ♦ self-important, sniffy, snob, snooty, snot, snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up, supercilious, Surquedrous, swagger, swaggerer, swaggering, swash ♦ To haul in one's horns, too big for one's breeches ♦ unassuming, uppish, uppity, upstart. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "arrogant": Aldabella ♦ Coucy ♦ IMHO. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "arrogant": rogation. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Arrogant" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (arrogant), Albanian (arrogant, cavalier, haughty, imperious, jackanapes, lordly, pushful, pushing), Dutch (arrogant, haughty), French (arrogant, assumptive, bumptious, conceited, coxcombic, expansive, grand, haughty, high and mighty, huffish, immodest, insolent, lordly, overbearing, perky, proud, pushful, pushy, rooster, snooty, stalky, uppish, upstart, wiseacre), German (arrogant, lordly), Swedish (arrogant, arroganta, haughty, imperious, overbearing, overweening, superior). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I'm not guilty if the people think that I'm arrogant. This is my manner (Popstars: Brasil; writing credit: Dr. Zoanne Clack; Joseph Dougherty) That's pretty arrogant considering the company here, don't you think (Top Gun; writing credit: Ehud Yonay; Jim Cash) Uh, let the record reflect that the deponent is a fat, arrogant, overweight, bald pig. (Ally McBeal; writing credit: Henri Vernes) You, Sam Malone, are the most arrogant, self-centered son of a-- (Cheers; writing credit: Isaac Cronin; Wayne Wang) You arrogant ass. You've killed us (The Hunt for Red October; writing credit: Larry Ferguson) | |
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Blaise Pascal | It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them. |
Cicero | To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but shameless. |
St. Bernard | If things always went wrong, no one could endure it. If they always went well, everyone would become arrogant. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Arrogant" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Arrogant" is used about 641 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 641 | 10,166 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "arrogant": arrogant boss ♦ assume an arrogant air ♦ be arrogant ♦ be very arrogant ♦ become arrogant. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "arrogant": hyper-hyper-arrogant. | |
| 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 |
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| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "arrogant"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | pretensieus, arrogant. (various references) | |
Albanian | arrogant (cavalier, haughty, imperious, jackanapes, lordly, pushful, pushing), mendjemadh (conceited, haughty, proud-spirited, self-conceited, stuck up, vain, vainglorious), kryelartë (cavalier, cocksy, cocky, conceited, consequential, haughty, high, lofty, lordly, proud, proud-stomached, stuck up, supercilious, toplofty), i pacipë (audacious, barefaced, brassy, brazen, brazen faced, bumptious, cheeky, contumelious, coxy, immodest, impertinent, impudent, insolent, nervy, perky, pert, saucy, shameless, unblushing). (various references) | |
Arabic | مغرور (allured, cocky, conceited, dazzled, deceived, deluded, fooled, haughty, lured, misled, overweening, popinjay, proud, self-conceited, self-important, snobbish, vain, vainglorious), متكبر (conceited, haughty, insolent, lofty, lordly, proud, snooty, supercilious, swank, swelling, upstage), متغطرس (conceited, haughty, imperious, insolent, lofty, lordly, overbearing, overpeopled, overproud, overweening, presuming, presumptuous, proud, pushy, snooty, supercilious), متعجرف (cavalier, conceited, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, overproud, overweening, presuming, presumptuous, puffed up, puffy, stuffy, supercilious, swelling), متجبر (haughty). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | нахален (cheeky, contumelious, flip, forward, huffish, impudent, insolent, jumped-up, malapert, nervy, obtrusive, offensive, perky, presuming, sassy, saucy, snotty), надменен (airy, aloof, assuming, assumptive, contemptuous, cool, disdainful, haughty, high, high and mighty, imperious, lofty, offhand, offish, overbearing, overweening, prideful, proud, proud-stomached, remote, scornful, stand offish, stiff, stuck up, sublime, supercilious, superior, top-lofty, uppish), арогантен (dogmatic, hoity toity, huffy, insolent, overbearing, presuming, uppish), дързък (assuming, audacious, cheeky, contumelious, cool, daring, defiant, foolhardy, malapert, nervy, overbold, reckless, sassy, saucy, venturesome). (various references) | |
Chinese | 傲慢 (Arrogance, Boastful, Boastfulness, Contemptuous, haughty, IMMODEST, insolent, Overbearing). (various references) | |
Czech | arogantní (bigheaded, frosted, overbearing, self confident, smug, snotty, supercilious, uppish), nadutý (bumptious, conceited, haughty, overbearing, proud, puffed up, windy), domýšlivý (assuming, conceited, haughty, high and mighty, perky, pretentious, small beer, smug, snotty, uppish, upstage, vain). (various references) | |
Dutch | arrogant (haughty), aanmatigend (haughty). (various references) | |
Esperanto | aroganta, aroga, pretendema, malmodesta. (various references) | |
Faeroese | nasvísur. (various references) | |
Farsi | پرنخوت , متکبر (Haughty, High, Imperious, Perky, Proud), گستاخ (Barefaced, Bold, Boldface, Brash, Cheeky, Forward, Immodest, Impertinent, Impudent, Indecent, Insolent, Jaunty, Perky, Pert, Presumptuous, Rude, Unabashed, Unshaped(En), Wanton), گردن فراز, خودبین (Egocentric, Presumptuous, Smug, Vain). (various references) | |
Finnish | ylimielinen (presumptuous), röyhkeä (cheeky, impudent, insolent), kopeileva (high and mighty), kopea (haughty, overbearing), julkea (brazen, gross, impudent, insolent), häikäilemätön (inconsiderate, unscrupulous). (various references) | |
French | arrogant. (various references) | |
Frisian | astrant (haughty), malmodesta, bazich (authoritative, haughty). (various references) | |
German | hochmütig (arrogantly, cavalier, haughtily, haughty, loftily, lofty, lordly, prideful, proud, superciliary, superciliously, uppish, uppity), arrogant (lordly), anmaßend (arroganting, arrogantly, assuming, bumptious, domineering, haughty, high handed, hubristic, imperious, overbearing, overweening, presumptuous, pretentious), überheblich (consequential, overweening, presumptuous, pretentious, superior, vain). (various references) | |
Greek | υπερόπτης (aloof, lofty), υπεροπτικός, αγέρωχοσ (cocky, haughty, imperious, magisterial, overbearing), αυθάδησ (audacious, brash, brazen, flippant, forward, impertinent, insolent, jackanapes, pert, presumer, presumptuous, sassy, saucy), αλαζών (haughty, presumer, saucy, stuck up, uppish), αλαζόνας, αλαζονικόσ (conceited, haughty, presumptuous), αλαζονικός (conceited, imperious). (various references) | |
Hebrew | י"יר (conceited, haughty, high and mighty, overweening, pompous, popinjay, presumptuous, snob, snooty, snotty, supercilious, swollen), שחוץ (haughty), שחצן (boastful, conceited, haughty, overbearing, popinjay, presumptuous, smart aleck, snob, snooty, whippersnapper), זחוח (haughty, insolent), 'אותן (boastful, haughty, proud), 'א" בעצמו (presumptuous), '"לן (haughty), 'ב" לב, ר"בת י. (various references) | |
Hungarian | arrogáns (be arrogant, haughty, prideful, to put on the high-and-mighty), szemtelen (audacious, be insolent, brash, brassy, brazen, cheeky, contemptuous, immodest, impertinent, impudent, insolent, leer, malapert, naughty, perky, pert, presumptuous, sassy, saucy, shameless, unblushing), gőgös (contemptuous, flown with pride, haughty, high and mighty, lofty, overweening, self-important, stuck-up, supercilious, to blow up with pride), fennhéjazó (overweening). (various references) | |
Indonesian | angkuh (appearence, cavalier, form, priggish, vainglorious), anggak (conceited), ujub (boastful, proud), ngambok (haughty), gaduk (conceited). (various references) | |
Italian | arrogante (assumptive, brash, haughty, overbearing, overweening). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 高慢 (haughty, proud). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ほ"らしい (haughty, magnificent, proud, splendid), せ"えつ (audacity, forwardness, presumptuous), "うぜ" (haughtiness, haughty, pride, proud, roaring), "うま"ふそ" (haughty, overbearing), "うま" (arrogance, conceited, haughtiness, hubris, insolence, pride, proud), "うま" (haughty, proud). (various references) | |
Korean | 오만한. (various references) | |
Manx | sonnaasagh (conceited), mooaralagh (ambitious, arrogant or haughty person, big-headed, conceited, dignified, haughty; presumptuous, imperious, insolent, majestic, ostentatious, presumptuous, proud, vain, vain haughty), kione-ard (chieftain, commandant; haughty, presuming, presumptuous, supercilious). (various references) | |
Norwegian | hovmodig (haughty), hoven. (various references) | |
Papiamen | arogante. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arrogantay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | arrogante (assuming, big, cockish, flatulent, haughty, huffish, imperious, lord-like, overbearing, perk, proud, proud-spirited, self-assertive, self-confident, self-pride, self-sufficient, snippy, stuck-up, supercilious, uppish, upstage), altivo (haughty, lofty, perky, proud, proud-spirited, self-assertive, sniffy, snooty, stand-off, stand-offish, stuck-up, supercilious, uppish). (various references) | |
Romanian | arogant (arrogantly, assuming, assumptive, haughtily, haughty, high and mighty, lordly, overbearing, overbearingly, overweening, perky, pretentious, supercilious), semeţ (brave, bravely, conceited, daring, daringly, haughtily, haughty, hoity toity, lofty, lordly, temerarious), fudul (cocksure, conceited, priggish, purse proud), boieros (fastidious, haughty, high handed), îngâmfat (assuming, bloated, bumptious, cock-a-hoop, conceited, flaunty, fop, haughtily, inflated, perky, presumptuous, self-conceited, self-pleasing, snooty, stuck up, supercilious, swollen, vainglorious), înfumurat (bumptious, haughty, jackanapes, opinioned, overweening, self sufficient, stuck up, uppish, vain), încrezut (assertive, bumptious, cocksure, cocky, conceited, high minded, jackanapes, opinioned, presuming, presumptuous, self confident, self-conceited, self-important, stuck up, supercilious, uppish, vain), ţâfnos (grumpy, hot tempered, ill tempered, magged, testy). (various references) | |
Russian | высокомерный (assuming, cavalier, domineering, haughty, high and mighty, highbrow, insolent, overweening, proud-stomached, sniffy, snooty, stiff necked, stuck up, stuck-up, supercilious, tossy, uppity). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | arogantan (high handed, presumptuous, uppity, wise), osion (rampant), ohol (disdainful, haughtly, haughty, hoity toity, huffy, magisterial, overbearing, overblown, proud, snippy, snooty, stuck up, supercilious), nadut (bloated, dropsical, flatulent), goropadan (rampant, rumbustious, shrewish), bezobziran (irrespective). (various references) | |
Spanish | arrogante (assuming, cavalier, haughty, imperious, lordly, overweening, prideful, supercilious), altanero (bumbling, haughty, high and mighty, lofty, pride, proud, snooty, snuffy, stuck up, supercilious, upstage). (various references) | |
Swedish | arrogant (arroganta, haughty, imperious, overbearing, overweening, superior), stursk (cock-a-hoop, insolent), spotsk (scornful), oförskämd (abusive, be insolent, brazenfaced, graceless, immodest, impertinent, impudent, inpudent, insolent, nervy), inbilsk (conceited, self-opinionated, stuck up, stuck-up, vain, vainglorious, vainly), frän (acrid, caustic, coarse, rank, strong), övermodig (cavalier, imperious, presuming, presumptuous). (various references) | |
Thai | หยิ่ง (loftily). (various references) | |
Turkish | mağrur (conceited, disdainful, haughty, lofty, overweening, proud, snooty, supercilious, uppish, uppity, vainglorious), kibirli (as proud as lucifer, assuming, bumptious, cavalier, conceited, consequential, disdainful, haughty, high-flown, hoity toity, holier-than-thou, hubristic, important, lofty, lordly, overweening, pontifical, proud, Sniffy, snooty, stiff necked, stuck up, stuffy, supercilious, superior, uppish, uppity, upstage, vain), kendini beğenmiş (assuming, bighead, bigheaded, bumptious, cavalier, chesty, cocky, conceited, egotistical, haughty, high hat, high-flown, high-flying, hoity toity, hoity-toity, holier-than-thou, important, insufferable, jackanapes, jumped-up, mugwump, overweening, pompous, pretentious, prig, priggish, self sufficient, self-important, self-opinionated, self-righteous, smug, Sniffy, snooty, snotty, stuck up, stuffed shirt, stuffy, supercilious, swelled head, swollen-headed, taffy-nosed, toffee-nosed, toffy-nosed, uppish, uppity, upstage, vain), kíbírlí, küstah (assuming, audacious, bold, bold-faced, brash, brassy, cheeky, chesty, cool, flip, flippant, fresh, ill mannered, impertinent, impudent, insolent, insulting, malapert, nervy, overbearing, presuming, presumptuous, stroppy, too familiar, unabashed, wise), haddini bilmez (presuming, presumptuous), gururlu (conceited, proud, vain, vainglorious). (various references) | |
Turkmen | tekepbir (haughty), gopbamsy (conceited), gompy (conceited), gedam (proud). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | самовпевнений (assertive, assuming, assumptive, assured, bold, bumptious, calm, chesty, cocksure, cocksy, confident, coxy, nervy, nose-wise, opinionated, opinioned, overconfident, overweening, perk, positive, presuming, reliant, self confident, self sufficient, self-assertive, self-assured, self-opinionated, upstart), гордовитий (disdainful, high and mighty, hoity toity, huffish, overly, presumptuous, proud, proud-hearted, sublime, supercilious), зарозумілий (audacious, contemptuous, dogmatic, dogmatical, domineering, high and mighty, highbrow, insolent, lordly, overbearing, overly, overweening, proud, self-conceited, self-explanatory, self-important, snooty, stately, stiff necked, stuck up, topping, upstage), пихатий (assuming, bloated, cavalier, cockish, conceited, foppish, haughty, highfalutin, highfaluting, high-flown, high-hearted, hoity toity, inflated, magniloquent, mouthy, overweening, portentous, puffed up, ritzy, self-important, side, solemn, vain). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | kiêu ngạo (assuming, assumptive, cavalier, conceited, proud-hearted, proudly, proud-spirited, pround-stomached), kiêu căng; ngạo mạn. (various references) | |
Welsh | trahaus (haughty), balch (glad, proud). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | arrogans, arrogantem, arrogantes, arrogantia, elatus, feroci, ferocissimas, ferox, iactantes, iactantibus, superba, superbae, superbarum, superbe, superbi, superbiens, superbis, superbo, superborum, superbos, superbum, superbus, superciliosus, tumidus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "arrogant": arrogantly. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "arrogant": unarrogant. (additional references) | |
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"Arrogant" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: airogant, arbogast, argant, argonath, Ariodante, arogant, Arogast, arrgant, Arrigoni, arrogans, arroganty, arrogent, arrogrant, arroogant, Arrorat, Garrigan. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "arrogant" (pronounced e"rugunt) |
| 5 | -u g u n t | elegant, extravagant. |
| 4 | -g u n t | litigant. |
| 3 | -u n t | agent, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, ambient, ambivalent, amendment, amusement, ancient, announcement, annulment, antecedent, antidepressant, antigovernment, antioxidant, apartment, apparent, appeasement, applicant, appointment, apportionment, ardent, argent, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, arrant, absent, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accompaniment, accomplishment, abandonment, abatement, aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, accountant, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adherent, adjacent, adjournment, adjustment, adjutant, adolescent, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, afferent, affiant, affluent, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assessment, assignment, assistant, assortment, astonishment, astringent, atonement, attachment, attainment, attendant, banishment, basement, battlement, belligerent, bemusement, beneficent, benevolent, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, blatant, bombardment, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, claimant, clairvoyant, Clement, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, coincident, combatant, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, competent, complacent, complainant, complaisant, complement, compliant, component, comportment, concealment, concomitant, concurrent, condiment, confident, confinement, confluent, consequent, consignment, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, containment, contaminant, contentment, contestant, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, coolant, copayment, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, curtailment, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impairment, impatient, impeachment, impediment, impertinent, implement, important, impotent, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, imprudent, inadvertent, incandescent, debarment, debasement, decadent, decedent, decent, declarant, decongestant, defendant, deferment, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, department, dependent, deployment, deportment, depressant, derailment, descendant, descendent, despondent, detachment, detergent, determent, determinant, deterrent, detriment, development, deviant, different, diligent, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discordant, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinfectant, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, disobedient, dispersant, displacement, dissident, dissonant, distant, divalent, divergent, divestment, docent, dominant, dormant, easement, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, element, elephant, eloquent, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emergent, emigrant, eminent, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrant, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, equivalent, errant, escapement, escarpment, esculent, establishment, estrangement, evanescent, evident, excellent, excitement, excrement, exigent, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, experiment, exponent, extant, extinguishment, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, figment, filament, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, formant, fragment, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, fulfillment, gallant, garment, garnishment, giant, government, grandiloquent, grandparent, harassment, hesitant, hydrant, incessant, incident, incipient, incitement, inclement, incoherent, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, increment, incumbent, indecent, independent, indictment, indifferent, indigent, indignant, indolent, inducement, indulgent, inefficient, infant, informant, infotainment, infrequent, infringement, ingredient, inhabitant, inhalant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolent, insolvent, installment, instant, instrument, insufficient, insurgent, integument, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, intermittent, internment, intersegment, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, investment, involvement, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, judgement, judgment, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, ligament, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, maltreatment, management, measurement, merchant, micromanagement, migrant, militant, miscreant, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monovalent, monument, mordant, movement, mutant, nascent, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nonresident, nonviolent, nourishment, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, ointment, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, ornament, orpiment, outpatient, outplacement, overconfident, overpayment, overstatement, oxidant, pageant, parchment, parent, parliament, participant, patent, patient, pavement, payment, peasant, penchant, pendant, penitent, pennant, percipient, permanent, persistent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, pigment, piquant, placement, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, postponement, postretirement, potent, preadolescent, precedent, predicament, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prejudgment, prepayment, prescient, present, presentment, prevalent, procurement, proficient, prominent, pronouncement, propellant, proponent, protestant, provident, prudent, prurient, pungent, punishment, pursuant, puzzlement, quadrant, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, readjustment, reagent, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recalcitrant, recent, recipient, recombinant, recruitment, recurrent, redeployment, redevelopment, redundant, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refrigerant, refurbishment, Regent, regiment, registrant, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, relevant, reliant, reluctant, reminiscent, remnant, repayment, repellent, repentant, replacement, replenishment, repugnant, requirement, resentment, resettlement, resident, resilient, resistant, resonant, resplendent, respondent, restatement, resultant, resurgent, retardant, reticent, retirement, retrenchment, reverent, rodent, rudiment, ruminant, sacrament, salient, seafront, sealant, sediment, segment, semipermanent, sentiment, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, settlement, shipment, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, statement, stimulant, strident, stringent, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplement, supplicant, suppressant, surfactant, talent, tangent, temperament, tenant, tenement, testament, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, tournament, transcendent, transient, translucent, transparent, treatment, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, vehement, verdant, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant, wonderment. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: tarragon. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-g-n-o-r-r-t" | |
-1 letter: grantor. | |
-2 letters: angora, arrant, garron, organa. | |
-3 letters: agora, antra, aorta, argon, argot, gator, gnarr, grana, grant, groan, groat, orang, organ, ratan, tango, tonga, trona. | |
-4 letters: agar, agon, anga, anoa, anta, gnar, gnat, goat, gran, grat, grot, nota, orra, raga, rang, rant, rato, roan, roar, rota, tang, tarn, taro, toga, tong, tora, torn, torr. | |
-5 letters: aga. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-g-n-o-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: guarantor, tarragons. | |
+2 letters: arrogantly, arrogating, arrogation, granulator, guarantors, unarrogant. | |
+3 letters: arrogations, granulators, inaugurator, narratology. | |
+4 letters: inaugurators, ingratiatory, starboarding. | |
+5 letters: appropriating, congratulator, gubernatorial, narratologies, narratologist, narrowcasting, reaggregation, transmigrator. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Translations: Ancient | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Bibliography |
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