Supercilious

Definition: Supercilious

Supercilious

Adjective

1. Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "shaggy supercilious camels"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer.

2. Expressive of contempt; "curled his lip in a supercilious smile"; "spoke in a sneering jeering manner"; "makes many a sharp comparison but never a mean or snide one".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "supercilious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references)

Etymology: Supercilious \Su`per*cil"i*ous\, adjective. [Latin expression superciliosus, from supercilium an eyebrow, pride; super over, cilium an eyelid; probably akin to celare to conceal. Compare to Conceal.]. (references)

Literature

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

Synonyms: Supercilious

Contempt

Adjective: contemptuous; disdainful, scornful; withering, contumelious, supercilious, cynical, haughty, bumptious, cavalier; derisive.

Disrespect

Adjective: disrespectful; aweless, irreverent; disparaging; insulting;Verb: supercilious, contemptuous, patronizing; (scornful); rude, derisive, sarcastic; scurrile, scurrilous; contumelious.

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.

Crosswords: Supercilious

That supercilious scoundrel confiscated my honey (Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree; writing credit: A.A. Milne; Ralph Wright)

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Albanian

kryelartë (arrogant, cavalier, cocksy, cocky, conceited, consequential, haughty, high, lofty, lordly, proud, proud-stomached, stuck up, toplofty), fodull (proud). (various references)

Arabic 

‏متكبر (arrogant, conceited, haughty, insolent, lofty, lordly, proud, snooty, swank, swelling, upstage), ‏متغطرس (arrogant, conceited, haughty, imperious, insolent, lofty, lordly, overbearing, overpeopled, overproud, overweening, presuming, presumptuous, proud, pushy, snooty), ‏متعجرف (arrogant, cavalier, conceited, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, overproud, overweening, presuming, presumptuous, puffed up, puffy, stuffy, swelling), ‏متشامخ (snooty, stuck up, superior). (various references)

Bulgarian 

надменен (airy, aloof, arrogant, 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, superior, top-lofty, uppish), презрителен (contemptuous, disdainful, disparaging, railing, scornful). (various references)

Chinese 

心高�"傲. (various references)

Czech

povýšený (condescending, exalted, haughty, superciliary, uppish), pohrdavý (contemptuous, disdainful, dismissive, scornful), arogantní (arrogant, bigheaded, frosted, overbearing, self confident, smug, snotty, uppish). (various references)

Farsi 

مغرور (Bigheaded, Haughty, Jaunty, Overbearing, Presumptuous, Proud, Snob, Snobbish, Stuffy, Swagger, Uppish, Vain), خودفروش (Ostentatious, Showy), ازروی خودخواهی . (various references)

Finnish

yliolkainen (nonchalant). (various references)

French

sourcilleux, hautain, dédaigneux. (various references)

German

hochnäsig (arrogant, snootily, snooty, stuck up, uppish, uppity, upstage), hochmütige, überlegen (consider, deliberate, lay over, masterfully, ponder, predominant, put over, superior, think, think about, think on, think over, to deliberate, to reason). (various references)

Greek 

υπεροπτικόσ (haughty). (various references)

Hebrew 

מת� שא (lofty, lordly, snob, standoffish, stuck up, towering), י�"יר (arrogant, conceited, haughty, high and mighty, overweening, pompous, popinjay, presumptuous, snob, snooty, snotty, swollen), � טוי �'רון (haughty). (various references)

Hungarian

fölényes (high handed, magisterial, sublime, superior, upstage, up-stage), dölyfös (assuming, haughty, high and mighty, imperious, prideful), önhitt (bumptious, dandified young man, hubristic, perky, presumptuous, priggish, proud, self sufficient, self-complacent, self-conceited, self-important). (various references)

Italian

orgoglioso (arrogantly, haughtily, haughty, lofty, proud), altezzoso (arrogant, cavalier, haughty, high, snooty, upstage). (various references)

Korean 

거만한 (haughty, insolent, Proud, snooty). (various references)

Manx

stroineeagh, kione-ard (arrogant, chieftain, commandant; haughty, presuming, presumptuous). (various references)

Pig Latin

upercilioussay.(various references)

Portuguese

orgulhoso (arrogant, boastful, flatulent, grand, haughty, proud, proud-spirited, snooty, stuck-up, uppish), desdenhoso (contemptuous, contumelious, disdainful, sardonic, scornful, sniffy, stuck-up), arrogante (arrogant, 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, uppish, upstage), altivo (arrogant, haughty, lofty, perky, proud, proud-spirited, self-assertive, sniffy, snooty, stand-off, stand-offish, stuck-up, uppish). (various references)

Romanian

superior (above, best, better, chief, choice, excelsior, exclusive, first class, Guardian, high, higher, lofty, overweening, predominant, superior, tiptop, top, upper), trufaş (flaunty, haughtily, haughty, loftily, lofty, proud-spirited, stately), dispreţuitor (contemptuous, contemptuously, defiant, despiteful, disdainful, flouting, haughtily, scornful, Sniffy), arogant (arrogant, arrogantly, assuming, assumptive, haughtily, haughty, high and mighty, lordly, overbearing, overbearingly, overweening, perky, pretentious), îngâmfat (arrogant, assuming, bloated, bumptious, cock-a-hoop, conceited, flaunty, fop, haughtily, inflated, perky, presumptuous, self-conceited, self-pleasing, snooty, stuck up, swollen, vainglorious), încrezut (arrogant, assertive, bumptious, cocksure, cocky, conceited, high minded, jackanapes, opinioned, presuming, presumptuous, self confident, self-conceited, self-important, stuck up, uppish, vain), înţepat (haughty, stuck up, sulky, sullen). (various references)

Russian 

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

Serbo-Croatian

uobražen (assuming, bighead, conceited, imaginary, overweening, presuming, pretentious, uppish), ohol (arrogant, disdainful, haughtly, haughty, hoity toity, huffy, magisterial, overbearing, overblown, proud, snippy, snooty, stuck up). (various references)

Spanish

suficiente (adequate, ample, comfortable, complacent, d, enough, plenty, plenty of, self-approving, self-complacent, sufficient), desdeñoso (cavalier, contemptuous, disdainful, scornful, Sniffy, superior), arrogante (arrogant, assuming, cavalier, haughty, imperious, lordly, overweening, prideful), altivo (arrogantly, haughtily, haughty, lordly, overbearing, overweening), altanero (arrogant, bumbling, haughty, high and mighty, lofty, pride, proud, snooty, snuffy, stuck up, upstage). (various references)

Swedish

högdragen (haughty, high, high minded, imperious, lofty, lordly, overbearing, standoffish, supercillious). (various references)

Thai

�"ูหมิ่น (slighting). (various references)

Turkish

tepeden bakan (haughty, high and mighty, high hat, holier-than-thou, self-righteous, snooty), mağrur (arrogant, conceited, disdainful, haughty, lofty, overweening, proud, snooty, uppish, uppity, vainglorious), kibirli (arrogant, 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, superior, uppish, uppity, upstage, vain), kendini beğenmiş (arrogant, 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, swelled head, swollen-headed, taffy-nosed, toffee-nosed, toffy-nosed, uppish, uppity, upstage, vain). (various references)

Ukrainian

гордовитий (arrogant, disdainful, high and mighty, hoity toity, huffish, overly, presumptuous, proud, proud-hearted, sublime), презирливий (contemptuous, despicable, disdainful, scornful). (various references)

Vietnamese 

kiêu kỳ (haughty, lofty, snooty), khinh khỉnh (contemptuous). (various references)

superciliosus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "supercilious": superciliously, superciliousness, superciliousnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Supercilious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: spercilious, supecilious, supercicious, superciliosus, supercilius, supercillious, supercillous, superfilious, supergilious, superscilious, supersilious. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: supercoils.

-3 letters: opuscules, siliceous, supercoil, surplices.

-4 letters: closeups, closures, corpuses, coulises, coulisse, couplers, cropless, cupreous, eclipsis, luscious, opuscule, perilous, policies, precious, purlieus, sclerous, scruples, soilures, specious, spicules, splicers, spoilers, sporules, spurious, surplice, ulcerous, uprouses.

-5 letters: closers, closeup, closure, coilers, colures, copiers, corpses, coupler, couples, courses, cresols, croupes, cruises, cuprous, cupules, curious, euripus, leprous, lispers.

+2 letters: scrupulosities, superciliously.

+4 letters: superciliousness.