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# arrogant

adjective (arrogant, more arrogant, most arrogant)

«arrogant» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Behaving as if you are better or more important than other people. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arrogant/#m1)

### In the lessons

In stories, arrogant characters often learn a lesson (the hare in «The Tortoise and the Hare»). In PSHE, arrogance is contrasted with confidence. Phrases: «arrogant attitude».

### Examples

- The arrogant hare stopped for a nap. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arrogant/#x1)
- Don't be arrogant about winning. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arrogant/#x2)
- The arrogant king ignored good advice. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arrogant/#x3)
- She's confident, not arrogant. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arrogant/#x4)
- His arrogant smile annoyed the team. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arrogant/#x5)
- Being arrogant can lose you friends. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arrogant/#x6)
- Waldemar Daa was arrogant and proud, but he was also a learned man, and knew a great deal. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arrogant/#x7)

### Note

Noun: arrogance; adverb: arrogantly. Not the same as confident: confident people believe in themselves without looking down on others.

## In Jewish tradition

In the Psalms, the arrogant are proud people who scorn God and the righteous, and who often seem to do well for a while.

**Interpretation.** The tradition reads the Psalms as promising that proud people will fall in the end, and warns the faithful not to envy them or follow them.

### Examples

- For I was envious at the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. (Writings PSA.73.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/arrogant/#x1)
- I say unto the arrogant: 'Deal not arrogantly'; and to the wicked: 'Lift not up the horn.' (Writings PSA.75.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/arrogant/#x2)
- Happy is the man that hath made the LORD his trust, and hath not turned unto the arrogant, nor unto such as fall away treacherously. (Writings PSA.40.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/arrogant/#x3)

### Note

Noun: arrogance; adverb: arrogantly. Not the same as confident: confident people believe in themselves without looking down on others.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «arrogant» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arrogant/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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- [Trees and pragmatics of «arrogant» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/arrogant/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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