Synonyms of uppity

uppity

adjective

ˈə-pə-tē 

as in arrogant

having a feeling of superiority that shows itself in an overbearing attitude

uppity social climbers who were the biggest snobs in town

Synonyms & Similar Words

• arrogant
• superior
• cavalier
• high-and-mighty
• important
• supercilious
• bumptious
• haughty
• domineering
• hifalutin
• pretentious
• sniffy
• dominant
• uppish
• huffy
• pompous
• smug
• assumptive
• high-handed
• presumptuous
• chesty
• imperious
• high-hat
• presuming
• masterful
• authoritarian
• dominating
• highfalutin
• patronizing
• proud
• lordly
• bossy
• self-assertive
• overweening
• peremptory
• snooty
• huffish
• toploftical
• toplofty
• condescending
• snobbish
• snobby
• impudent
• stiff-necked
• lofty
• self-asserting
• egotistical
• saucy
• cocky
• disdainful
• boastful
• pontifical
• magisterial
• conceited
• egoistical
• vainglorious
• swaggering
• narcissistic
• egocentric
• impertinent
• bombastic
• hubristic
• complacent
• blusterous
• pontificating
• vain
• stuck-up
• blustery
• egotistic
• egoistic
• prideful
• bragging
• braggy
• extraverted
• uninhibited
• self-centered
• braggart
• self-satisfied
• immodest
• extroverted
• self-conceited
• brash
• self-complacent
• self-promoting
• self-affected
• self-flattering
• self-applauding
• self-loving
• self-pleased
• unreserved
• orgulous
• forward

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• humble
• lowly
• modest
• timid
• unpretentious
• sheepish
• bashful
• shy
• subdued
• mousy
• diffident
• passive
• introverted
• deferential
• meek
• shrinking
• submissive
• demure
• compliant
• unassuming
• acquiescent
• unassertive
• unarrogant
• unobtrusive
• unaggressive
• mousey
• quiet
• cringing
• yielding
• reserved
• overmodest
• self-critical
• cowering
• self-doubting
• retiring

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of uppity

There were some in the UK, and even on this side of the pond, who wanted the queen to assert her authority and slap down her presumptuous grandson and his uppity wife. —Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Jan. 2020

So was the mayor of Tomsk, his fate a warning to uppity regional politicians. —The Economist, 21 Dec. 2019

The John Wayne machismo attitude of Cliff (Brad Pitt), an aging stuntman who defeats the arrogant, uppity Chinese guy harks back to the very stereotypes Bruce was trying to dismantle. —Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 17 Aug. 2019

But for a kid in Kentucky, Stonewall—even as recounted by White and others who were there—represented, at best, a kind of aspirational gay life, a bevy of uppity queers fighting for their decidedly unrespectable libidinal community. —Michelle Tea, Harper's magazine, 22 June 2019