uppish
- adjective
- /ˈʌpɪʃ/
:
arrogante
- His uppish attitude made it difficult for him to make friends.
Examples
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That kid is getting uppish as Jimmy was back in the day.
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"What I don't know is where you get off sounding so uppish.
Fiction book (1995) -
So the prideful who are always lifting themselves up were pressed down by great rocks.
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"I'm too uppish, owing to my intelligence, and my father being a chartist and a reading, thinking man... a stationer, too.
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You're too uppish!
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All Ma and me ever got from whites was mean looks and “don't get uppish with us.”
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Whenever she wins an argument, she gets a bit uppish about it, as if she is always right.
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People avoid him because of his uppish demeanor; he constantly acts superior to everyone.
Synonyms
260
4.5
Behaving as if you are more important or better than other people
22
7.5
A person who thinks they are better than other people
20
9.0
Acting as if you are more important than other people
16
7.8
Acting as if you are better than other people
16
7.4
Acting as if you are better than other people
7
9.6
Having a rude, arrogant attitude often used to describe a child
1
6.7
Thinking you are better than other people and acting proud
1
8.8
Acting too proud and thinking you are better than others
Antonyms
Compounds
How Arrogant
Surface Forms
Morphology
uppish = (semi-transparent) = up + ish
Formed from 'up' + '-ish', but the attitudinal meaning 'arrogant' is a metaphorical extension from spatial/social 'higher' and may not be obvious to all learners. [Postprocessing: moved 'up' from base_words to prefix]
Etymology
Uppish comes from the simple word up plus the ending -ish, which gives the idea of 'a little' or 'somewhat'. So to be uppish is to behave like you are 'above' other people or a bit too proud.