high-handed

Synonyms

arrogant, bumptious, cavalier, chesty, haughty, high-and-mighty, high-hat, highfalutin (also hifalutin), huffish, huffy, imperious, important, lofty, lordly, masterful, overweening, peremptory, pompous, presuming, presumptuous, pretentious, self-asserting, self-assertive, sniffy, supercilious, superior, uppish, uppity;

Antonyms

humble, lowly, modest, unarrogant, unpretentious;

Near Antonyms

bashful, cowering, cringing, demure, diffident, introverted, mousy (or mousey), overmodest, self-critical, self-doubting, sheepish, shrinking, shy, subdued, timid;

acquiescent, compliant, deferential, meek, passive, submissive, unaggressive, unassertive, unassuming, unobtrusive, yielding;

quiet, reserved, retiring;

Related Words

authoritarian, bossy, dominant, dominating, domineering, magisterial, pontifical, pontificating;

condescending, disdainful, patronizing;

impertinent, impudent, saucy;

snobbish, snobby, snooty;

blusterous, blustery, boastful, bombastic, braggart, bragging, braggy, cocky, swaggering, vain, vainglorious;

complacent, conceited, egocentric, egoistic (also egoistical), egotistic (or egotistical), narcissistic, prideful, proud, self-affected, self-applauding, self-centered, self-complacent, self-conceited, self-pleased, self-satisfied, smug, stuck-up;

self-flattering, self-loving, self-promoting;

brash, forward, uninhibited, unreserved;

extroverted (also extraverted), immodest;