dicty
- adjective
- /ˈdɪkti/
- Offensive
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- He always acts in a dicty way, looking down on anyone who doesn't share his expensive tastes.
Examples
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Then he says, "You and your dicty girlfriends," a comment Augustine hears and, she can see, angers him.
Fiction book (1997) -
At the party, she rolled her eyes at his dicty remarks about fine dining and designer labels.
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Our molecular biology colleagues from the dicty community have helped us learn more about evolution.
Academic text (2007) -
Most dicty investigators are signed up for a listserv, and so we began to "send out signals" by posting elementary questions there, which were patiently answered by leaders in Dictyostelium molecular biology.
Academic text (2007) -
Instead of answers, one of the dicty biologists, Dennis Welker of Utah State University in Logan, gave us something far more valuable: a genetically diverse collection of wild-caught clones.
Academic text (2007) -
His dicty attitude made it hard for him to make genuine friends.
Synonyms
260
4.5
Behaving as if you are more important or better than other people
74
7.3
Trying to seem more important or clever than you really are
65
7.4
Acting as if you are better than other people
57
5.8
Acting more important and formal than necessary
20
8.2
Acting as if you are better than other people
16
7.4
Acting as if you are better than other people
16
7.8
Acting as if you are better than other people
16
6.3
A person who thinks they are better than other people and looks down on them
14
8.1
Acting proud and looking down on other people
7
5.3
Acting like you are better than other people because of their money or clothes
5
9.9
Someone who acts proud and shows they feel better than others
4
7.5
To act as if you are better than other people because of your money or taste
1
9.9
Acting as if you are better than other people
1
9.9
Too confident and rude in a way that annoys other people
1
9.3
Acting as if you are rich or high class
1
9.3
Showing the attitude of a rich person who thinks they are better than others
1
9.9
Very fancy in a way that shows you think you are better than others
Acting very formal and proud to seem better than others
Acting very fancy to show you are better than others
Having a proud, snobbish manner and showing off fashionable tastes
Acting like a rich person to seem important
Showing off and acting more important than others
Acting too proud and boastful
Antonyms
How Snobbish
Surface Forms
Etymology
Dicty is British slang for someone who acts snobbish or pretentious. A helpful way to remember it is to think of diction or dictionary ('ways of speaking' or 'big words'), because showing off in your speech or style is what makes someone seem dicty.