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cavalier
Synonyms and Antonyms of cavalier
- a cavalier and pompous boss, indifferent to the feelings of her subordinates
arrogant, assumptive, bumptious, chesty, haughty, high-and-mighty, high-handed, high-hat, highfalutin (also hifalutin), huffish, huffy, imperious, important, lofty, lordly, masterful, overweening, peremptory, pompous, presuming, presumptuous, pretentious, self-asserting, self-assertive, sniffy, stiff-necked, supercilious, superior, toplofty (also toploftical), uppish, uppity
authoritarian, bossy, dominant, dominating, domineering, magisterial, pontifical, pontificating
condescending, disdainful, patronizing
blusterous, blustery, boastful, bombastic, braggart, bragging, braggy, cocky, swaggering, vain, vainglorious
complacent, conceited, egocentric, egoistic (also egoistical), egotistic (or egotistical), hubristic, narcissistic, orgulous, 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
cavalier
Synonyms and Antonyms of cavalier
- a novel about the dashing cavaliers and gracious ladies of the South before the Civil War
beau, Beau Brummell, blade, blood, buck, dandy, dude, fop, gallant, jay, petit-maître
captivator, charmer, ladies' man (also lady's man), smoothy (or smoothie)
aristocrat, patrician, swell, toff [chiefly British]
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