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high-and-mighty
high-and-might·y (hī′ən-mī′tē)adj. Marked by arrogance; haughty and overbearing.
high and mighty adv. & n.high′-and-might′y
adj. haughty; arrogant. [1150–1200] Thesaurus| Adj. | 1. |  high-and-mighty - offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power; "an autocratic person"; "autocratic behavior"; "a bossy way of ordering others around"; "a rather aggressive and dominating character"; "managed the employees in an aloof magisterial way"; "a swaggering peremptory manner"autocratic, bossy, peremptory, magisterial, dominatingdomineering - tending to domineer |
high-and-mightyadjectiveOverly convinced of one's own superiority and importance:arrogant, haughty, insolent, lofty, lordly, overbearing, overweening, prideful, proud, supercilious, superior.Idiom: on one's high horse.high-and-mighty
high and mightyHaughty and scornful. How can you act so high and mighty after all the mistakes you've made?See also: and, high, mightyhigh-and-mightyFig. self-important and arrogant. I don't know why William is so high-and-mighty. He's no better than the rest of us. The boss acts high-and-mighty because he can fire us all.high and mightyConceited, haughty, as in She was too high and mighty to make her own bed. This expression originally alluded to high-born rulers and was being transferred to the merely arrogant by the mid-1600s. See also: and, high, mightyhigh and mighty 1 important and influential. 2 thinking or acting as though you are more important than others; arrogant. informalSee also: and, high, mightyˌhigh and ˈmighty (informal) behaving as though you think you are more important than other people: He’s too high and mighty to mix with ordinary people like us!See also: and, high, mightyhigh and mightyArrogant, conceited. Although originally used to describe either spiritual or temporal rulers, this term soon came to mean individuals who used their position of real or imagined power to act haughtily. Thus, while fifteenth- and sixteenth-century sources might address a ruler as “Right heigh and mighty Prince” (as in Hall’s Chronicle of Edward IV, 1548), a century later Richard Whitlock (Zoötamia, 1654) would write of “their high and mighty word, Experience.” It was a cliché by the time Thackeray wrote, “Some of these bankers are as high and mighty as the oldest families” (The Newcomes, 1855).See also: and, high, mightyhigh-and-mighty
Synonyms for high-and-mightyadj overly convinced of one's own superiority and importanceSynonyms- arrogant
- haughty
- insolent
- lofty
- lordly
- overbearing
- overweening
- prideful
- proud
- supercilious
- superior
Synonyms for high-and-mightyadj offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted powerSynonyms- autocratic
- bossy
- peremptory
- magisterial
- dominating
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