FASTUOUS Synonyms: 77 Similar and Opposite Words

fastuous

adjective

Definition of fastuous

as in important

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Adjective

Yet he was accused of failing to do his work as recently as November, detained in a neighboring village over rainfall that disrupted an important ceremony.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 20 Sep. 2026
Maybe the most important thing Jon Sumrall did Saturday night wasn’t beating Auburn.

— Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of important

Adjective

Everybody on our side understands that impeachment is a critical tool in the toolbox for constitutional self-defense against a president acting like a king, an imperious, lawless, arrogant king.

— NBC news, NBC news, 6 Sep. 2026
Most obviously, front and center, and in endlessly intrusive close-up, there’s Pattinson — who also serves as producer — playing the arrogant, fame-addicted, megalomaniac Hansen.

— Jessica Kiang, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of arrogant

Adjective

Even the smallest rooms—the superior guest rooms on floors five through eight—are 450 square feet, large for San Francisco hotels.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Sep. 2026
Relative to its nearest peers, Linde demonstrates superior operating efficiency, superior pricing power, and an industry-leading adjusted operating profit margin approaching 30%.

— Harvey Stober, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of superior

Adjective

Managing these risks is not something these business leaders, or their respective state actor partners, need overly supercilious advice on.

— Radu Magdin, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
This Cannes Directors’ Fortnight prizewinner sets out its pitch-black-comic stall early with a prologue in which, after a brief contretemps, local man Raoul Brun (Jean-Louis Coulloc’h) blows his supercilious neighbor’s head off with a shotgun and then disappears.

— Jessica Kiang, Variety, 16 June 2026

Definition of supercilious

Adjective

Jerry could easily be a caricature of a pretentious artiste stuck overseeing anonymous regional theater productions.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Sep. 2026
Breaking down the song of the summer debate Music reviewers on social media are, more often than not, pretentious snobs who take themselves too seriously, but Mic The Snare is a welcome change of pace.

— Moises Mendez II, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of pretentious

Adjective

Jim Parsons, too, understands the assignment as Rose's gold-digging mother, as do our adorably charming Jack Dawson (Rousouli) and hilariously uppity Cal (John Riddle).

— Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Apr. 2026
Steve Fields serves lobster tails and filet mignon, but its proprietor likes to think of the restaurant as D-FW’s affordable steakhouse — a place that isn’t too uppity.

— Dallas News, Dallas News, 2 Apr. 2022

Definition of uppity

Adjective

The story resonated, not because this one World Cup match mattered, but because the presumptuous disdain that America showed for everyone else was so familiar.

— Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2026
In the post-Watergate, post-Vietnam era, this thinking went, Congress had gone too far in constraining the executive branch with presumptuous reforms that aimed to secure greater accountability and transparency from the White House.

— Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of presumptuous

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