What is another word for snobbish?

Pronunciation: [snˈɒbɪʃ] (IPA)

Snobbish is a word that is often used to describe people who are arrogant, elitist, or pretentious. However, there are a variety of other synonyms that can be used to describe these types of individuals. Some of the most common alternatives include haughty, stuck-up, snooty, highfalutin, conceited, superior, and self-important. These synonyms all carry a similar connotation to snobbish, and can be used interchangeably in most situations. Whether you're trying to describe an individual's attitude, behavior, or personality, these synonyms can be incredibly useful in helping you articulate your thoughts and feelings in a concise and accurate way.

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What are the hypernyms for Snobbish?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for snobbish?

The word "snobbish" can be defined as an adjective to describe a person who believes they are superior to others based on their social status, wealth, or education. However, there are several antonyms for this term that can be used to describe the opposite behaviors and attitudes.

What are the antonyms for Snobbish?

Usage examples for Snobbish

If I explain, you'll think me snobbish, Ted, and I'm not, even if mother is.
"I Walked in Arden"
Jack Crawford
"It's snobbish and mean and unlady-like," retorted Nancy; "but her saying it doesn't make it a fact, for you do know me, and you will always have to know me.
"Girls of the Forest"
L. T. Meade
She had the fleeting and snobbish wish that all the girls of her class could see her turning thus assuredly up the walk to the famous senior house.
"Peggy Parsons a Hampton Freshman"
Annabel Sharp

Famous quotes with Snobbish

  • Said Marx, "Don't be snobbish, we seek to abolish The 3rd class, not the 1st."
    Christopher Logue
  • I can better understand the inert blindness & defiant ignorance of the reactionaries from having been one of them. I know how smugly ignorant was—wrapped up in the arts, the natural (not social) sciences, the of history & antiquarianism, the academic phases of philosophy, & so on—all the one-sided standard lore to which, according to the traditions of the dying order, a liberal education was limited. God! the things that were —the inside facts of history, the rational interpretation of periodic social crises, the foundations of economics & sociology, the actual state of the world today … & above all, the of applying disinterested reason to problems hitherto approached only with traditional genuflections, flag-waving, & callous shoulder-shrugs! All this comes up with humiliating force through an incident of a few days ago—when young Conover, having established contact with Henneberger, the ex-owner of , obtained from the latter a long epistle which I wrote Edwin Baird on Feby. 3, 1924, in response to a request for biographical & personal data. Little Willis asked permission to publish the text in his combined , & I began looking the thing over to see what it was like—for I had not the least recollection of ever having penned it. Well …. I managed to get through, after about 10 closely typed pages of egotistical reminiscences & showing-off & expressions of opinion about mankind & the universe. I did not faint—but I looked around for a 1924 photograph of myself to burn, spit on, or stick pins in! Holy Hades—was that much of a dub at 33 … only 13 years ago? There was no getting out of it—I really thrown all that haughty, complacent, snobbish, self-centred, intolerant bull, & at a mature age when anybody but a perfect damned fool would have known better! That earlier illness had kept me in seclusion, limited my knowledge of the world, & given me something of the fatuous effusiveness of a belated adolescent when I finally able to get around more in 1920, is hardly much of an excuse. Well—there was nothing to be done … except to rush a note back to Conover & tell him I'd dismember him & run the fragments through a sausage-grinder if he ever thought of printing such a thing! The only consolation lay in the reflection that I matured a bit since '24. It's hard to have done all one's growing up since 33—but that's a damn sight better than not growing up at all.
    H. P. Lovecraft
  • H.P. Lovecraft was a genius when it came to tales of the macabre, but a terrible dialogue writer. He seems to have known it, too, because in the millions of words of fiction he wrote, fewer than are dialogue. [...] Lovecraft was, by all accounts, both snobbish and painfully shy [...] the kind of writer who maintains a voluminous correspondence but gets along poorly with others in person -- if he were alive today, he'd likely exist most vibrantly in various Internet chatrooms. Dialogue is a skill best learned by people who enjoy talking and listening to others -- particularly listening, picking up accepts, rhythms, dialect and slang of various groups. Loners like Lovecraft often write it badly, or with the care of someone who is composing in a language other than his or her native tongue.
    H. P. Lovecraft
  • When I think of the thousands and thousands of pounds which have been spent by the National Art Collections Fund on the purchase of paintings—some of questionable merit and dubious condition—by Old Masters already represented in the National Gallery—it makes me boil with rage to think that in 1905 it would not contribute one halfpenny towards the purchase for the nation of a picture by one of the Great French Masters of the late nineteenth century. It was a short-sighted policy, but the Fund's inertia and snobbish ineptitude are entirely characteristic of the habits of art-officialdom in England.
    Frank Rutter

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