High-and-mighty

Definition: High-and-mighty

High-and-mighty

Adjective

1. Offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power; "an autocratic person"; "autocratic behavior"; "a bossy way of ordering others around"; "a rather aggressive and dominating character"; "managed the employees in an aloof magisterial way"; "a swaggering peremptory manner".

Synonyms: High-and-mighty

Synonyms: autocratic (adj), bossy (adj), dominating (adj), magisterial (adj), peremptory (adj). (additional references)

Usage Frequency: High-and-mighty

"High-and-mighty" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "High-and-mighty" is used about 2 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)

Modern Translations: High-and-mighty

Language		Translations for "high-and-mighty"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shes mend (act high-and-mighty). (various references)

Hungarian		felszáll a magas lóra (to put on the high-and-mighty), arrogáns (arrogant, be arrogant, haughty, prideful, to put on the high-and-mighty). (various references)

Pig Latin		igh-and-mightyhay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: High-and-mighty

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-g-g-h-h-h-i-i-m-n-t-y"
	-5 letters: dighting, highting, midnight.
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