snotty

snotty

adjective

Definition of SNOTTY

being or characteristic of a person who has an offensive air of superiority and tends to ignore or disdain anyone regarded as inferior <a snotty contempt for those brash parvenus who moved into the cookie-cutter mansion next door>

Synonyms aristocratic, elitist, high-hat, persnickety, potty, ritzy, snobby, snooty, snotty, toffee-nosed [chiefly British]

Related Words aloof, arrogant, bumptious, haughty, high-and-mighty, highfalutin (also hifalutin), high-handed, hoity-toity, huffish, huffy, imperious, lordly, overweening, peremptory, pompous, presumptuous, pretentious, supercilious, superior, toplofty (also topliftical), uppity; biggety (or biggity) [Southern & Midland], bigheaded, egoistic (also egoistical), egotistic (or egotistical), prideful, self-conceited, self-important, self-satisfied, smug, stuck-up, swelled-headed, swellheaded

Near Antonyms democratic, egalitarian; egoless, humble, modest, unpretentious; antielitist, antisnob