Synonyms of toplofty

toplofty

adjective

variants also toploftical

as in arrogant

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

those toplofty history professors who sneeringly use the term "popularizer" to describe any historian whose works are read with pleasure

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

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