behaving in a proud, unpleasant way, showing little thought for other people 傲慢的;自大的 Extra ExamplesTopics Personal qualitiesb2He was a rude, arrogant young man. 他是个不懂礼貌、目中无人的年轻人。 She wanted to laugh in his arrogant face. 她想在他傲慢的脸上笑。 The chief inspector disliked his arrogant manner. 总督察不喜欢他那副自命不凡的样子。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryArrogant is used with these nouns:- attitude
- dismissal
- jerk
- …
Word Originlate Middle English: via Old French from Latin arrogant- ‘claiming for oneself’, from the verb arrogare, from ad- ‘to’ + rogare ‘ask’.